(a) When official signs are erected prohibiting or restricting parking at any municipally maintained parking lot, area or place, no person shall park a vehicle in any such designated lot, area or place without first having obtained authorization therefor from the Mayor or the Chief of Police. The foregoing shall not apply to any municipally maintained parking lot, area or place which is serviced by parking meters.
(b) Members of the Police Division are hereby authorized to move a vehicle by towing or otherwise, at the owner's expense, from such municipally maintained parking lot, area or place to a vehicle pound maintained by the Police Division, when such vehicle is parked therein without proper authorization.
(Ord. 49-1958. Passed 6-2-85; Ord. 61-1985. Passed 5-28-85.)
(c) Whoever violates any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor on a first offense; on a second offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree; on each subsequent offense within one year after the first offense, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.