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feit and pay a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.00)
for each lot or parcel so transferred or sold or agreed or
negotiated to be sold; and the description of such lot or
parcel by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer
or other document used in the process of selling or trans-
ferring shall not exempt the transaction from such penal-
ties or from the remedies herein provided. The municipal
corporation may enjoin such transfer or sale or agree-
ment by action for injunction brought in any court of
equity jurisdiction or may recover the said penalty by civil
action in any court of competent jurisdiction.

SEC. 20. COUNTY CLERK'S DUTIES. A county clerk who
files or records a plat of a subdivision without the approval
of the Planning Commission as required by law shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less
than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five
hundred dollars ($500.00).

SEC. 21. STATUS OF EXISTING PLATTING STATUTES.
From and after the time when a Planning Commission
shall have control over subdivisions as provided in Section
15 of this Act, the jurisdiction of the Planning Commission
over plats shall be exclusive within the territory under its
jurisdiction, and all statutory control over plats or subdi-
visions of land granted by other statutes shall, in so far as
in harmony with the provisions of this Act be deemed
transferred to the Planning Commission of such munici-
pality.

TITLE IV. BUILDINGS IN MAPPED STREETS.

SEC. 22. RESERVATION OF LOCATIONS OF MAPPED STREETS
FOR FUTURE PUBLIC ACQUISITION. Any municipal Plan-
ning Commission is empowered, after it shall have adopted
a major street plan of the territory within its subdivision
jurisdiction or of any major section or district thereof,
to make or cause to be made, from time to time, surveys for
the exact location of the lines of a street or streets in any
portion of such territory and to make a plat of the area
or district thus surveyed, showing the land which it recom-
mends be reserved for future acquisition for public streets.
The Commission, before adopting any such plat, shall hold
a public hearing thereon, notice of the time and place of
which, with a general description of the district or area
covered by the plat, shall be given not less than 10 days
previous to the time fixed therefor by one publication in
a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality if