(A) Except as otherwise provided by this code or other ordinance, any person accused of a violation of a provision of this code or other ordinance prohibiting parking a vehicle in a designated area, or restricting the length of time a vehicle may be parked, may settle and compromise the claim against him or her for the illegal parking by paying to the city the sum of $5 within 72 hours of the time the alleged offense was committed. The payment may be made at the police station, and a receipt shall be issued for all money so received. Money received pursuant to this section shall be promptly turned over to the City Treasurer. The Police Department is authorized to refrain from instituting a prosecution for the alleged offense involved.
(B) This section shall not apply to persons parking a vehicle so as to obstruct the entrance or exit of any place where the Police or Fire Department apparatus or other emergency equipment is kept or housed, or so as to block an emergency entrance to a hospital. This section shall not apply to any person charged with parking a vehicle so as to entirely obstruct traffic in any street or alley, or to any person parking in such a way as to reduce traffic on an arterial street to one-way traffic only, or to any person who refuses to move a vehicle illegally parked at the request of a police officer.
(1986 Code, § 14-68)