(A) No minor over the age of six, other than a minor that has been suspended or expelled from school, shall be at any place within the village except in attendance at school during required attendance unless the minor has written proof from school authorities excusing him or her from attending school at that particular time or unless the minor is accompanied by a parent or legal guardian, or a responsible adult selected by the parent or legal guardian to supervise the minor.
(B) Each parent or legal guardian of a minor over the age of six shall have a duty to prohibit the minor from behaving contrary to division (A) above. No person shall negligently fail to fulfill the duty imposed by this division (B).
(C) It shall be an affirmative defense to divisions (A) and (B) above that the minor, at the time he or she was found at a place other than in school, was not required by law to be in attendance at school.
(D) It shall be an affirmative defense to division (B) above that the parent or legal guardian initiated the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court against the minor prior to the time that the minor was found violating division (A) above.
(Prior Code, § 135A.04) (Ord. 32-1998, passed 9-8-1998)