HomeMy WebLinkAbout2182ORDINANCE NO. 2182
A~ 0RDIN~2,ICE regularing the prescence of minors under the age
of 18 y~ars on public streets and other places 0etween certain hours
defining~duties of parents and others in care of minors, providing
for arrests and penalties for violations thereof and repealing Ord-
inance No. x~.4.
THE CITY~F BRE~ERTON,i~ES ORDAIN:
~ ~S~okIt shall be unlawful for any minor under the age
of 18 year~ l~iter, idle, wander, stroll or play in or upon the
public streets, h~ghways, roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds, wharves,
or other p~ub'lio grounds, vacant lots, orbother unsupervised places
between the hours o~ 10 o'clock P.M. and'~ o'clock A.M. of the fol-
lowinL day, except d~rin~ school sun~zer vacations the hours shall
be 11 o'clock P.M. an~6~o'clock A.M..of the following day; provid-
ed, however, that provisions of this Section do not apply to a minor
accompanied by his or h~r ~arent, guardian, or other adult person
having the care and sust~dy of the minor, or where the minor is up-
on an emerdency errand ork~egitimate business directed Dy his or
her paren~ guardian or o t~er adult person ~aving the care and cus-
tody of the minor. Each vi&lation of the provisions of this Sec-
tion shall constitute s sepa e offense.
Section 2. It shall be ~ul for the parent, guardian, or
other adult person having the and custody of any minor under
the aa~.e of 18 years to knowingll t such minor to loiter, idle,
wander, stroll or play in or u public streets, highways,
roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds, s, or other puOlic places,
vacant lots or ocher unsupervised zces between the hours of 10
o'clock P.M. and 6 o'clock A.M. of following day, except dur-
in6 school summer vacations the hours ~hall Oe 11 o'clock P.M. and
6 o'clock A.M. of the following day; ded however, that the
provisions of this Section do not ap 'the minor is accom-
panied by his or her parent, guardian, other adult person having
the care and custody of the minor, or the minor is upon an
emergency errand or legitimate ousiness di by his <;r her par-
ent, guardian or other adult person having care and custody of
the minor. Each vilation of the provis this Section shall
constitute a separate of f cpsc.
Section 3. Any minor violating the provis .nsof Section 1
of this Ordinance shall be dealt with in ac ,e with Juvenile
Law and Juvenile Court Procedure. Any parent, ,dian or other
adult person having the care and custody of a violating
Section 2 of this Ordinance shall ,;e fined not more ;hah Three
hundred (#300.00) Dollars or confined in the City for not more
than ninety (90) days, or punished by both such fine d imprison-
ment i'or each offense.
Section 4. That Ordinance No. 1384 be and the same s hereby
repealed.
~.~PROVED on'f~rs~.reading this llth day of July, 1956.
PASSED AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City of ~rton,
signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentic on
of such passage this 25th day of ~lly, 1956.
ATTEST. H:O.- DOI~STAD, M~o~
E.H.T. ~cGOWA~.~, City Clerk