1640                                         LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [Ch. 112

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 5.05, 5.06, and 7.01(b) of
Article 66B — Zoning and Planning, of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1970 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)
be and they are hereby repealed and re—enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

Article 66B - Zoning and Planning
5.05.

Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of
any land located within a subdivision transfers or sells
or agrees to sell or negotiate to sell any land by
reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat
of a subdivision, before [such] THE plat has been
approved by the planning commission and recorded or filed
in the office of the appropriate county cleric, shall
forfeit and pay a CIVIL penalty of [one hundred dollars
($100)] NOT LESS THAN $200 AND NOT MORE THAN $1,000 IN
THE DISCRETION OF THE COURT, for each lot or parcel so
transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold;
and the description of [such] THE lot or parcel by metes
and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other
document used in the process of selling or transferring
shall not exempt the transaction from [such] THE
penalties or from the remedies herein provided. The
county or municipal corporation may enjoin [such] THE
transfer or sale or agreement 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.

5.06.

A clerk of the circuit court shall not record a plat
of a subdivision [as a deed of a subdivision without the
approval of] UNLESS THE PLAT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY the
planning commission as required, by law. [and any] ANY
[such] plat [or deed] of a subdivision recorded without
planning commission approval [shall be void] HAS ONLY THE
LEGAL EFFECT OF AN UNRECORDED PLAT.

7.01.

(b) In case any building or structure is erected,
constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted,
or maintained, or any building, structure, sign, or land
is used in violation of this article or of any ordinance
or other regulations made under authority conferred
hereby, the proper local authorities of the jurisdiction