A person who parks a vehicle in any onstreet parking space which has been designated exclusively for handicapped or disabled persons or temporarily handicapped or disabled persons or motor vehicles for the transportation of handicapped or disabled persons or temporarily handicapped or disabled persons, or in any so exclusively designated parking space in any offstreet parking facility, without properly displaying the permit specified in §22-132 or §22-133 or when the handicapped or disabled person to whom or for whom, as the case may be, the license plate or permit is issued will not enter or exit the vehicle while it is parked in the designated space shall be guilty of a traffic infraction and shall be fined: (1) Not more than one hundred dollars for the first offense, (2) not more than two hundred dollars for a second offense within a one-year period, and (3) not more than three hundred dollars for a third and subsequent offense within a one-year period.
The display on a motor vehicle of a distinguishing license plate or permit issued to a handicapped or disabled person by and under the duly constituted authority of another state shall constitute a full and complete defense in any action for a handicapped parking infraction issued pursuant to this Article.
If the identity of the person who parked the vehicle in violation of this Article cannot be readily determined, the owner or person in whose name the vehicle is registered shall be held prima facie responsible for such violation and shall be guilty and subject to the penalties and procedures described in this Article.
In the case of a privately owned offstreet parking facility, the City shall not require the owner or person in lawful possession of such facility to inform the City of a violation of this Article prior to the City issuing the violator a traffic infraction citation.