Trinity County Municipal Code Ch. 9.24 Minors About Saloons and Disorderly Houses

It shall be unlawful, and it is a nuisance, for any minor child under the age of eighteen years in the county at any time to visit or loiter about any gambling house, bar, saloon, or any place where spirituous, malt or vinous liquors are sold or dispensed, or loiter about any public place, alley, shed or house of prostitution, or in the nighttime after the hour of seven-thirty p.m. from the first day of November to the first day of May, and after the hour of eight-thirty p.m. from the first day of May to the first day of November in each year, to play or loiter upon any public place, alley or street unless accompanied by the parent or legal guardian of such minor, except in pursuit of necessary or proper business.

(Ord. 78 §1, 1901: Ord. 66 §1, 1899)

It shall be unlawful for any parent, guardian, or other person having the care or control of any minor child to wilfully encourage, counsel, or permit such minor to violate the provisions of Section 9.24.010.

(Ord. 66 §2, 1899)

It shall be unlawful for any person in the county, being the owner or keeper of any gambling house, bar, saloon, or any place where spirituous, malt or vinous liquors are sold or disposed, or of any house of prostitution, to allow or permit any minor child under eighteen years of age to remain in or about the premises occupied by him or her. Every person who sells or gives to any minor under the age of sixteen years, to be by such minor drunk, as a beverage, any intoxicating drink, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished as provided in Section 9.24.050.

(Ord. 66 §3, 1899)

The sheriff of the county and his deputies, and all constables of the county and their deputies, are authorized and empowered, and it is their duty, to admonish all minors violating the provisions of Section 9.24.010 and to conduct such minors to their homes, or in their discretion, to arrest such minor or minors.

(Ord. 66 §4, 1899)

Any person guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not less than five dollars or more than one hundred dollars, and any judgment that the defendant pay a fine shall also direct that he or she be imprisoned in the county jail until such fine is satisfied in the proportion of one day's imprisonment for each two dollars of the fine imposed.

(Ord. 66 §5, 1899)