(a) No person shall store or permit to be stored on any lot or premises a motor vehicle which is dismantled, inoperative or unlicensed, for a period of more than fifteen days, unless the same is kept or stored in a completely enclosed, authorized and permitted building or garage on such lot or premises. Any such motor vehicle shall be deemed inoperative when the lack or failure of the engine, transmission or other mechanical part results in such vehicle not being usable for transportation of persons. The Police Department is authorized to serve notice on property owners or persons in possession of any such lot or land upon which an unlicensed or inoperative motor vehicle is stored contrary to the provisions hereof, and such period of fifteen days shall commence to run the next day following service of such notice. Any person, who has been notified being the owner of or in charge, or in possession of any lot or land on which any such vehicle is stored and who fails to remove the same after notice as aforesaid, is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Each day such violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.
(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.