18.02.040 Compliance required.

(A) It is unlawful for any individual, firm, association, trust, syndicate, co-partnership, corporation, or any other legal entity, as a principal, agent, or otherwise to offer to sell, to contract to sell, or to sell any subdivision of land/or any part thereof in the city of American Canyon, unless and until all the requirements of this title have been complied with.

(B) Any offer to finance, lease, sell or contract to sell, or any financing of a division of land, lease or sale contrary to the provisions of this title shall be a misdemeanor, and any person, firm, corporation, partnership or co-partnership, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, except that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to bar any legal, equitable, or summary remedy to which the city of American Canyon or other political subdivision or person, firm, corporation, partnership or copartnership may otherwise be entitled and the city of American Canyon or any other political subdivision, or person, firm, corporation, partnership or copartnership may file an action in the Superior Court of the state of California, in and for the county of Napa to restrain or enjoin any attempted or proposed subdivision or sale in violation of this title.

(C) Any transfer or conveyance, or purported transfer or conveyance, or agreement to transfer or convey any parcel of land without compliance with the terms of this Title shall be voidable at the option of the transferee in accordance with the provisions of Sections 11540 and 11540.1 of the Business and Professions Code of the State of California, as the same may be amended from time to time.