(A) Any person accused of a violation of an ordinance prohibiting parking a vehicle in a designated area, or restricting the length of time a vehicle may be there parked, may settle and compromise the claim against him or her for the illegal parking by paying to the village $5 for each such offense. The payment may be made at the Village Hall and a receipt shall be issued for all money so received and the money shall be promptly turned over to the Treasurer to be credited to the General Fund. The members of the Police Department are hereby authorized to refrain from instituting a prosecution for the alleged offense involved for at least 48 hours.
(B) Provided that this section shall not apply to persons parking a vehicle so as to obstruct the entrance or exit of any place where Police Department or Fire Department apparatus or other emergency equipment is kept or housed or so as to block an emergency entrance in a hospital. Nor shall this section apply to any person charged with parking a vehicle so as to entirely obstruct traffic in any street or alley or parking in such a way as to reduce traffic on an arterial street to one-way traffic only; nor to any person who refuses to remove a vehicle illegally parked at the request of any member of the Police Department.
(1994 Code, § 24-6-7)