It shall be unlawful for any owner, or agent of the owner, of any land located within the city limits knowingly or with intent to defraud, to transfer or sell, that land by reference to or by other use of a plat or any purported subdivision plat of the land before the plat has been approved by the council and recorded in the office of the county recorder of deeds.

(Code 1964, § 19.508(3); Ord. No. 10099, § 1, 3-5-84)