If, before final subdivision approval has been granted, any person transfers or sells, or agrees to sell, except pursuant to an agreement expressly conditioned on final subdivision approval, as owner or agent, any land which forms a part of a subdivision for which by ordinance municipal approval is required, such person shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000, and each lot so disposed of may be deemed a separate violation.

In addition to the foregoing, the Borough may institute and maintain a civil action:

A. For injunctive relief; and

B. To set aside and invalidate any conveyance made pursuant to such contract or sale if a certificate of compliance has not been issued in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40:55D-56 of the Municipal Land Use Act.

In any such action, the transferee, purchaser or guarantee shall be entitled to a lien upon the portion of the land from which the subdivision was made that remains in the possession of the subdivider or his assigns or successors, to secure the return of any deposit made or purchase price paid, and also a reasonable search fee, survey expense, and title closing expense, if any. Any such action must be brought within two years after the date of the recording of the instrument of transfer, sale or conveyance of said land or within six years if unrecorded.

The prospective purchaser, prospective mortgagee, or any other person interested in any land which forms part of a subdivision, or which, since the 13th day of June, 1951, formed part of such a subdivision, may apply in writing to the proper official, or if said official is unknown to the applicant, then to the Clerk of the Borough, for the issuance of a certificate certifying whether or not such subdivision has been approved by the Planning Board. Such application shall contain a diagram showing the location and dimension of the land to be covered by the certificate and the name of the owner thereof.

The Mayor and Council shall, by resolution, designate the Borough Clerk, Borough Engineer of some other official as the official who shall make and issue such certificates, and the official so designated shall issue such certificate within 15 days after the receipt of such written application and the fees therefor. Such official shall keep a duplicate copy of each certificate consecutively numbered, including a statement of the fees charged, in a binder as a permanent record of his office.

Each certificate shall be designated a "certificate as to approval of subdivision of land" and shall certify:

A. Whether there exists in the municipality a duly established Planning Board which meets regularly on a monthly or more frequent basis and whether there is an ordinance controlling subdivisions of land, adopted under the authority of this chapter.

B. Whether the subdivision or resubdivision, as it relates to the land shown in said application, has been approved by the Planning Board and, if so, the date of such approval.

C. Whether such subdivision or resubdivision, if the same has not been approved, is exempt from the requirements of approval as provided in this chapter.

The official designated officer shall be entitled to demand and receive for each such certificate issued by him a reasonable fee, not in excess of those provided in Sections 14 and 15 of Chapter 5 of Title 54 of the Revised Statutes. The fees so collected by such official shall be paid by him to the Borough.

Any person who shall acquire for a valuable consideration an interest in the lands covered by any such certificate of approval of a subdivision in reliance upon the information therein contained shall hold such interest free of any right, remedy or action which could be prosecuted or maintained by the Borough.

If the official designated to make and issue any such certificate fails to issue the same within 15 days after receipt of an application and the fees therefor, any person acquiring an interest in the land described in such application shall hold such free of any rights, remedy, or action which could be prosecuted or maintained by the Borough.

Any such application addressed to the Borough Clerk of the Borough of Bradley Beach shall be deemed to be addressed to the proper designated official, and the municipality shall be bound thereby to the same extent as though the same was addressed to the designated official.