(a) As used in this section:
(1) "Parking lot" means any outdoor space, plot, place, lot, parcel, yard or enclosure, or any portion thereof, where more than two motor vehicles may be parked, stored, serviced, housed or kept. "Parking lot" includes, but is not limited to, the driving and parking areas of drive-in restaurants, drive-in banks, shopping centers, gasoline service stations, grocery parking lots, factory parking lots, and all other parking lots used in connection with the operation of a business. "Parking lot" also includes City-owned or operated off-street parking lots.
(2) "Public portions of a parking lot" means the parking areas and the ingress and egress to a parking lot, designated by the parking lot owner or the agent of the owner for off-street parking of automotive or other vehicles, as well as driveways, sidewalks, malls, arcades, service areas and entranceways into stores and buildings.
(3) "Shopping center" means any combination of retail stores and services contained within one or more buildings which are located on one or more parcels of land united to form a general shopping center site and upon which site there are located public areas for the nonexclusive use of members of the general public and occupants, visitors and customers of said retail stores and services.
(b) No person on the public portions of a parking lot shall race the motor of any motor vehicle, needlessly bring to a sudden start or stop any motor vehicle, needlessly blow any horn of any motor vehicle or engage in any race with another vehicle, so as to create a nuisance or a disturbance or so as to annoy or endanger any person or other vehicle lawfully on the public portions of the parking lot.
(c) No person, alone or in concert with others, shall assemble or congregate on the public portions of a parking lot for the purpose of lingering or loitering in any manner.
(Ord. 74-4. Passed 1-16-74.)
(d) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02.