311.11 PLAY STREETS.

   (a)   The Safety Director shall have authority in cases and during hours when public travel will not be greatly interfered with thereby, to close any highway or portion thereof to vehicular traffic, except that requiring access to or egress from premises not accessible except by such highway. Such authority shall be exercised only in cases where it is necessary or expedient to do so in order to provide safe places in which the children or residents of the neighborhood may play, and such play streets shall be properly marked while so restricted. No person shall drive any vehicle upon such restricted highway while it is so restricted, except as permitted in this section.

(Ord. 58-41. Passed 10-28-58.)

   (b)   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.