Stanton Municipal Code Ch. 9.60 Curfew—minors

For the purpose of this chapter, any person under the age of eighteen years shall be deemed a minor irrespective of the marital status of said person.

A. It is unlawful for any minor under the age of eighteen years to loiter, idle, wander, stroll or play in or upon the public streets, highways, roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds or other public grounds, public places and public buildings, places of amusement and entertainment, vacant lots or other unsupervised places or trespass on private property between the hours of ten p.m. and six a.m. of the following day; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to a minor accompanied by his or her parent, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of said minor or when said minor is upon an emergency errand or legitimate business directed by his or her parent, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of said minor.

B. Each violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a separate offense.

(Ord. 757 § 1, 1993)

A. It is unlawful for the parent, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of a minor under the age of eighteen years to knowingly permit such minor to loiter, idle, wander, stroll or play in or upon the public streets, highways, roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds or other public grounds, public places and public buildings, places of amusement and entertainment, vacant lots or other unsupervised places or trespass on private property between the hours of ten p.m. and six a.m. of the following day; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply when the minor is accompanied by his or her parent, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of said minor or when said minor is upon an emergency errand or legitimate business directed by his or her parent, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of said minor.

B. Each violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a separate offense.

C. It shall not constitute a defense hereto that such parent, guardian or other person having the care and custody of a minor coming within the provisions of this chapter, did not have knowledge of the presence of said minor in or upon any streets, alleys, highways, roads, public places, vacant lots or other unsupervised places in violation of Section 9.60.020.

(Ord. 757 § 1, 1993)

It is unlawful for any parent, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of any minor under the age of fourteen years to leave said minor at home or any other place without the supervision of a competent and responsible person between the hours of ten p.m. and six a.m. of the following day.

(Ord. 757 § 1, 1993)

Every law enforcement officer is hereby authorized and empowered to demand from any person whom he has reasonable cause to believe comes within the provisions of this chapter and who is found loitering, idling, wandering, strolling or playing in or upon the public streets, highways, roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds or other public grounds, public places, public buildings, places of amusement and entertainment, vacant lots or other unsupervised places or trespassing on private property without his or her parents, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of such person, between the hours of ten p.m. and six a.m. of the following day, that such person give his or her name, address, parents' names and furnish proof of his or her age or proof that he or she is upon an emergency errand or legitimate business directed by his or her parents, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of such person, and upon the failure of such person to give or furnish any or all of said information, any such officer is authorized and empowered to take such person into custody and take him or her to his or her home, or communicate with his or her parents, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of such person and demand the information hereinabove required to be given. If such person so taken into custody is a person coming within the provisions of this chapter, any such law enforcement officer is authorized and empowered to demand of the parents, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of such minor, that they take such minor to his or her home. The failure of any such parent, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of such minor to furnish the information hereinabove required or to take such minor home when so demanded by any such law enforcement officer is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor. Further provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to a parent, guardian or other adult person where the minor is legally married, but said minor, nevertheless, shall remain subject to the provisions of this section.

(Ord. 757 § 1, 1993)

Any minor violating any of the provisions of Section 9.60.020, shall be remanded to the juvenile court. Any parent, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of a minor coming within the provisions of this chapter who violates any of the provisions hereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ord. 757 § 1, 1993)