§ I. Authority and jurisdiction.

A.

Enabling legislative acts. These regulations are adopted by the Montgomery City Planning Commission under authority of Act No. 480 of the 1961 Alabama Legislature, which refers to Chapter 16, Title 37, the 1940 Code of Alabama, as recompiled in 1958, and especially sections 797 and 803 thereof, both inclusive [now Code of Ala. 1975, §§ 11-52-30—11-52-36], which sections of said code, insofar as they are applicable, are hereby made a part hereof to the same extent as if they were set out in full.

B.

Limits of jurisdiction. From and after the effective date hereof, these regulations shall govern all subdivision of land within the corporate limits of the City of Montgomery and its police jurisdiction. Any owner of land within the area governed by these regulations wishing to subdivide land shall submit to the planning commission a plat of the subdivision which shall conform at least to the minimum requirements and procedures set forth in these regulations.

C.

Penalty clause. Whoever, being the owner, or agent of the owner, of any land located within a subdivision as defined herein, transfers or sells such land without first recording an approved plat, in the office of the Probate Judge of Montgomery County, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of $200.00 for each lot or parcel so transferred or sold. The City of Montgomery may injoin such transfer, or sale, or agreement, by action or injunction brought in any court for equity jurisdiction, or may recover the same penalty by a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction.