§ 11. Penalties.

Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision, transfers or sells or agrees to sell any land by reference to or exhibition of or by other use of a plat of a subdivision, before such plat has been approved by the planning commission and recorded in the records of the office of the judge of probate of Mobile County, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each lot or parcel so transferred to sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold; and the description of such lot or 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 penalties or from the remedies herein provided. The city may enjoin such transfer or sale or agreement by action for injunction brought in any court of equity jurisdiction or may recover the same penalty by a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction.