(a) No person shall operate a motor vehicle across public or private property marked with signs indicating a desire to prohibit through traffic for the purpose of passing from one roadway to another.
(b) No person operating a motor vehicle shall, within 500 feet of an intersection at which a traffic control signal or device has been installed, drive across or through property not open for use as a public street and thereby transfer the operation of the motor vehicle from the street which was originally traveled to another street. It shall be sufficient to be a violation of this section if either of these streets is within the Municipality.
(c) This section shall have no application if the operation prohibited herein is directed by a police officer, by appropriate traffic control signals or devices or if the person operating the motor vehicle stops his vehicle and turns off the motor while on such property not devoted to use as a public street.
(Ord. 1987-45. Passed 11-9-87.)
(d) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to one predicate motor vehicle or traffic offense, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If, within one year of the offense, the offender previously has been convicted of two or more predicate motor vehicle or traffic offenses, whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.