(a) 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 such motor vehicle from the street which was originally traveled to another street. It shall be sufficient for such operation to be a violation of this section if either of the streets is in the City.
(b) This section shall have no application if the operation prohibited herein is directed by a police officer or appropriate traffic control signal or device or if the person operating the motor vehicle stops such vehicle and turns off the motor while on such property.
(Ord. 19-77. Passed 5-10-77; Ord. 32-79. Passed 4-24-79.)