Every person that violates a section, division, subchapter, or provision of this chapter when he or she performs an act thereby prohibited, or declared unlawful, or fails to act when the failure is thereby prohibited, or declared unlawful, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as follows:
(A) Where the specific section, division, subchapter, or provision specifically makes the violation a misdemeanor, he or she shall be punished as for a misdemeanor; where a violation is committed in a manner, or under circumstances so as to endanger, or be likely to endanger, any person or property, he or she shall be punished as for a misdemeanor; where he or she stands convicted of violation of any provision of this chapter, exclusive of violations relating to the standing, or parking, of an unattended vehicle, within the immediate preceding 12-month period for the third, or subsequent time, he or she shall be punished as for a misdemeanor.
(B) As to any violation not constituting a misdemeanor under the provisions of division (A) above, he or she shall be punished as for a petty misdemeanor.
(Prior Code, § 7.99)