Any person, partnership or corporation who or
which, being the owner or agent of the owner of any lot, tract or
parcel of land, shall lay out, construct, open or dedicate any street,
sanitary sewer, storm sewer, water main or other improvements for
public use, travel or purposes or for the common use of occupants
of buildings abutting thereon or who sells, transfers or agrees or
enters into an agreement to sell any land in a subdivision or land
development, whether by reference to or by other use of a plan of
such subdivision or land development or otherwise, or erects any building
thereon, unless and until a final plan has been prepared in full compliance
with the provisions of this chapter and of the regulations adopted
hereunder and has been recorded as provided herein, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor; and upon conviction thereof, such person or the
members of such partnership or the officers of such corporation or
the agent of any of them, responsible for such violation shall pay
a fine not exceeding $1,000 per lot or parcel or per dwelling within
each lot or parcel, and each day shall be considered a separate offense.
All fines collected for such violations shall be paid over to the
borough governing body. The description by metes and bounds in the
instrument of transfer or other document used in the process of selling
or transferring shall not exempt the seller or transferor from such
penalties or from the remedies herein provided.