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HARRY HUGHES, Governor
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Charles and St. Mary's Counties - Zoning - Industrial Lots
FOR the purpose of providing that in Charles and St. Mary's
counties persons selling or negotiating to sell
industrial property located in a subdivision may use a
plat of the subdivision before the plat has been
approved and recorded.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 66B - Zoning and Planning
Section 5.05
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1978 Replacement Volume and 1980 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That section(s) of the Annotated Code of Maryland
be repealed, amended, or enacted to read as follows:
Article 66B - Zoning and Planning
5.05.
(A) EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN SUBSECTION (B) OF THIS
SECTION, [Whoever] 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 the plat has been approved by the
planning commission and recorded or filed in the office of
the appropriate county clerk, shall forfeit and pay a civil
penalty of 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 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 the penalties or from the remedies herein
provided. The county or municipal corporation may enjoin
the transfer or sale or agreement by action for injunction
brought in any court of equity jurisdiction or may recover
the penalty by civil action in any court of competent
jurisdiction.
(B) IN CHARLES AND ST. MARY'S COUNTIES THIS SECTION
DOES NOT APPLY TO THE SALE OR NEGOTIATION FOR SALE OF
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY.
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.
Approved April 14, 1981.
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