Any person or an agency of this State which operates a motor vehicle designed or used for the carriage of more than seven passengers may apply to the Department for a permit to construct an all weather surface adjacent to and connected with the traveled way of a State highway and located on the right-of-way of a State highway for the purpose of making temporary stops in order to receive or discharge passengers. Any permit issued under this Section shall designate the location and design of and type of material to be used in any such construction and the construction shall be in conformity with the requirements of the permit. No such construction shall be initiated without first securing a permit to do so from the Department.
     Whoever violates any provision of this Section shall be guilty of a petty offense.