When a police officer of the City has placed on any vehicle a notice to the owner or operator thereof that a vehicle has been in violation of any of the provisions of this article and such notice instructs the owner or operator to report to Police Headquarters in the Municipal Building in regard to the violation, each owner or operator may, within twenty-four hours of the time when the notice was attached to the vehicle, pay to the police officer on duty at the Municipal Building, as a penalty for and in full satisfaction of the violation, that sum of money which Council may prescribe as the minimum fine for such violation. The minimum fine for each such violation, after so fixed by Council, shall be printed on the reverse side of the notice which the police officer places on the offending vehicle. The failure of such owner or operator to make such payment within twenty-four hours shall render the owner or operator subject to the penalties hereinafter provided for a violation of the provisions of this article.
(1976 Code Sec. 18-174)