331.45 SHORTCUTTING; AVOIDING TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES.
   (a)   No person shall operate a motor vehicle upon or across private property or public property, which public property has been marked with signs reading “No Through Traffic”, for the sole purpose of driving across such property between abutting or intersecting streets or other public ways.
   (b)   No person shall operate a motor vehicle across public or private property for the purpose of avoiding compliance with a traffic control device.
   (c)   It shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section for the operator of a motor vehicle to cross public or private property as provided herein without using the service of such property, stopping the engine, or both.
   (d)   Whoever violates this section shall be guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 1998-30. Passed 7-13-98.)