§ 1-11. Enforcement and penalties.

No owner or agent of the owner of any land located within the territorial jurisdiction of Carteret County shall subdivide land in violation of these regulations or transfer or sell and by reference to, exhibition of or any other use of a plat before the plat has been properly approved under these regulations and recorded in the office of the Carteret County Register of Deeds. The description by metes and bounds in the instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling or transferring land does not exempt the transaction from these regulations. The register of deeds shall not record a plat of any subdivision unless the plat has been approved in the manner prescribed by these regulations.

The county, through its attorney or other official designated by the board of county commissioners, may enjoin illegal subdivision, transfer or sale of land by action for injunction. Further, violators of this ordinance shall be subject, upon conviction, to fine or imprisonment as provided by the General Statutes of North Carolina.