Pennsylvania Statutes Title 21 P.S. Deeds and Mortgages § 399. Plan of subdivided tract; penalty for omission; recovery

When any tract or piece of land within the limits of any county of this commonwealth, which has been or shall be hereafter sub-divided into lots, and any lot has been sold from the tract or piece of land so divided according to said plan of subdivision without said plan of subdivision having been recorded, it shall be the duty of the owner of said tract of land, or the legal representatives thereof, authorizing said plan of subdivision of such tract of land to be laid out, to record said plan of such subdivision in the office of the recorder of deeds, et cetera, in the proper county upon sixty days' notice to record the same from the recorder of deeds of the proper county, or any person having an interest in the said tract of land, given from time to time, plan of the subdivision described by duly recorded;  1 and if such owner, or the legal representatives thereof, shall fail to cause said plan of subdivision of said tract of land, as aforesaid, to be recorded in the said office, such owner, or the legal representatives thereof, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred ($100.00) dollars for each failure to record such plan of subdivision, without notice from time to time, as aforesaid. Said sum or sums to be recovered as debts of like amount are by law recoverable at the suit of any party interested, or the recorder of deeds of the proper county, before any alderman or justice of the peace, in and for said county, in the name of and for the use of said county.