(a) Whenever any motor vehicle without a driver is found parked or stopped in violation of any of the restrictions imposed by ordinances relating to traffic, the officer finding such vehicle shall take its registration number and may take any other information displayed on such vehicle which may identify its owner or user, and shall conspicuously affix to such vehicle a notice in writing on a quadruplicate form provided by the chief of police for the driver to answer to the charge against him within seventy-two (72) hours, during the hours and at the place specified in the notice.

(b) No person, whether the recipient thereof or otherwise, shall willfully throw away, alter, mar, mutilate, destroy, or discard such written notice.