For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CURFEW HOURS. The time of night from 11:01 p.m. through 5:00 a.m. seven nights a week.
EMERGENCY. Any unforeseen circumstances, or the resulting status or condition, requiring immediate action to safeguard life, limb or property. The term includes, but is not limited to, fires, natural disasters, automobile accidents, serious illness, serious bodily injury or other similar circumstances.
ESTABLISHMENT. Any privately owned place of business within the city operated for a profit, to which the public is invited, including, but not limited to any place of amusement or entertainment.
MINOR or JUVENILE. May be used interchangeably and means any unmarried person less than 18 years of age who has not been legally emancipated.
OPERATOR. With respect to an establishment as defined above, any person, and/or any firm, association, partnership (and its members or partners) or any corporation (and its officers) conducting or managing that establishment.
PARENT.
(1) A person who is a minor's biological or adoptive parent, or step-parent and who has legal custody of a minor (including either parent, if custody is shared under a court order or agreement); or
(2) A person who is the biological, adoptive or step-parent parent with whom a minor regularly resides; or
(3) A person judicially appointed as a legal guardian of the minor; or
(4) A person 18 years of age or older standing in loco parentis (as indicated by the written authorization of an individual listed in divisions (1), (2) or (3) of this definition, above, for the person to assume the care or physical custody of the child, or as indicated by any other circumstances).
PERSON. Refers to an individual, not to any association, corporation, or any other legal entity.
PUBLIC PLACE. Refers to any place to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access, including, but not limited to: streets, highways, roads, sidewalks, alleys, avenues, parks, or the common areas of schools, hospitals, apartment houses, office buildings, transportation facilities and shops.
REMAIN. Refers to the following actions:
(1) To linger or stay at or upon a place;
(2) To fail to leave a place when requested to do so by any peace officer or by the owner, operator or other person in control of that place;
(3) To stand, walk, sit or run.
TEMPORARY CARE FACILITY. Refers to a non-locked, non-restrictive shelter at which minors may wait, under visual supervision, to be retrieved by a parent. No minors waiting in such facility shall be handcuffed or secured (by handcuffs or otherwise) to any stationary object.
(Ord. 2012-C-S, passed 2-26-08)