(a) No person operating a motor vehicle or motorcycle 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.
(b) It shall be sufficient to be violation of this section if either of the streets mentioned above is within the City.
(c) This section shall have no application if the operation prohibited herein has been directed by a police officer, by appropriate traffic control signals or devices or if the person operating the motor vehicle has stopped his vehicle and turned off his motor while on such property devoted to use as a public street. (Ord. 19-1970, Passed 3-23-70.)
(d) 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.