Before selling or transferring lots in a subdivision by reference to its plat, the owner or owner’s agent must have the plat approved and recorded, and must make the transfer document comply with subdivision laws.
§114. Transfer of lots in unapproved subdivisions A. Whoever, being the owner or agent of the owner of any land located within a subdivision, transfers or sells or agrees to transfer or 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 a planning commission and recorded or filed in the office of the clerk of court of the parish, shall make the instrument of transfer subject to compliance with laws, ordinances, and regulations relative to the development of subdivisions. B.(1) 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 a planning commission and recorded or filed in the office of the clerk of court of the parish, without making the instrument of transfer subject to compliance with laws, ordinances, and regulations relative to the development of subdivisions, shall pay a penalty of five hundred dollars for each lot or parcel so transferred or sold or agreed or negotiated to be sold. (2) The description of such 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 such penalties or from the remedies herein provided. (3) The parish or municipality, as the case may be, may enjoin such transfer or sale or agreement by suit for injunction brought in any court of competent jurisdiction or may recover the penalty by a civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction. Acts 1983, No. 238, §1; Acts 1995, No. 141, §1.