A.

The Recorder of Deeds shall not receive for filing or recordation any plan of land or any plan showing an arrangement of lots or parcels of land, streets, easements or rights-of-way, unless and until, in accordance with the regulations contained in this Chapter, such plan shall have been submitted to and approved by the Department and by County Council and each such approval shall have been endorsed in writing on the plan by the General Manager of the Department and by the President of County Council.

B.

Any plan received by the Recorder of Deeds for filing or recording without the approval of the Department and County Council endorsed thereon shall be null and void and without legal effect and shall, upon application of the Department or County Council to the Superior Court, be expunged from the records of the Recorder of Deeds.

C.

Whoever causes any plan to be filed or recorded contrary to this Article shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00). The Superior Court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction over offenses committed in violation of this Section.

(Ord. No. 97-172, § 3(ch. 13, § 30.510), 12-31-1997)