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(a) No child between the ages of six and seventeen, inclusive, other than a child who has been suspended or expelled from school, shall be at any place within the City except in attendance at school or at their residence during regularly scheduled class time during any school day unless the child has been excused from attending school at that particular time.
(b) Each parent, legal guardian or custodian of a child between the ages of six and seventeen, inclusive, shall have a duty to prohibit the child from behaving contrary to subsection (a) hereof. No person shall negligently fail to fulfill the duty imposed by this subsection.
(c) It shall be an exception to subsections (a) and (b) hereof that the child, 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) A police officer or school attendance officer may transport any child found violating subsection (a) hereof to the child’s residence and may release the child into the care of a parent or legal guardian, to the school the child usually attends or to any location designated by the school authorities as a receiving center for such children, the choice of destination to be made at the discretion of the police officer or school attendance officer based on the proximity of the destination and other relevant facts, and subject to the need to respond to emergency or priority calls.
(e) Any child who violates subsection (a) hereof is an unruly child and subject to the jurisdiction of the Mahoning County Juvenile Court.
(f) Any person who violates subsection (b) hereof is guilty of negligently failing to supervise a child of compulsory school age, a minor misdemeanor.
(g) Any person who previously has been convicted of subsection (b) hereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 2002-04. Passed 3-6-02.)
(a) "Vagrant", within the meaning of this section, means any person able to work and support himself or herself, in any honest and respectable calling, trade or business, who lives idly and without any visible means to support himself or herself; and
(1) Who shall be found loitering or strolling about in any street, alley, park or any public or private place within the Municipality; or
(2) Who shall go about begging in the Municipality, not having any regular lawful business; or
(3) Who shall occupy for the purpose of lodging any barn, shed, shop or place other than such as is provided for that purpose, without permission of the owner or person entitled to possession thereof; or
(4) Who shall be the keeper, proprietor or exhibitor of any device for swindling, or shall be an assistant or attendant to any such device; or
(5) Who, for the purpose of gaming or gambling, travels about from place to place or frequents taverns or public places in the Municipality for that purpose; or
(6) Upon whom shall be found any instrument or thing used for the commission of burglary, or for picking locks or pockets, and who shall fail to give a good account of his possession of the same; or
(7) Who shall be engaged in any fraudulent scheme, device or trick upon the streets or public or private places in the Municipality.
(b) Any person convicted of being a vagrant under any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(a) Whenever, in his judgment, the Manager determines that an emergency exists as a result of mob action or other civil disobedience causing danger of injury or damage to persons or property, he shall have power to impose by proclamation any or all of the following regulations necessary to preserve the peace and order of the Municipality:
(1) To impose a curfew upon all or any portion of the Municipality thereby requiring all persons in such designated curfew areas to forthwith remove themselves from the public streets, alleys, parks or other public places. However, Councilmen, physicians, nurses and ambulance operators performing medical services, utility personnel maintaining essential public services, firemen and Municipally authorized or requested law enforcement officers and personnel may be exempt from such curfew.
(2) To order the closing of any business establishments anywhere within the Municipality for the period of emergency, such businesses to include, but not to be limited to, those selling intoxicating liquors, malt beverages, gasoline or firearms.
(3) To designate any public street, thoroughfare or vehicle parking area closed to motor vehicles and pedestrian traffic.
(4) To call upon regular and auxiliary law enforcement agencies and organizations within or without the Municipality to assist in preserving and keeping the peace within the Municipality.
(b) The proclamation of emergency provided herein shall become effective upon its issuance and dissemination to the public by appropriate news media.
(c) Any emergency proclaimed in accordance with the provisions of this section shall terminate after forty-eight hours from the issuance thereof, or upon the issuance of a proclamation determining that an emergency no longer exists, whichever occurs first. However, such emergency may be extended for such additional periods of time as determined to be necessary by the Manager. (Ord. 1968-10. Passed 7-9-68.)
(d) Whoever willfully fails or refuses to comply with the orders of duly authorized law enforcement officers or personnel charged with the responsibility of enforcing the proclamation of emergency authorized in this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(a) No person, without privilege to do so, shall recklessly obstruct any highway, street, sidewalk, or any other public passage in such a manner as to render the highway, street, sidewalk, or passage impassable without unreasonable inconvenience or hazard if both of the following apply:
(1) The obstruction prevents an emergency vehicle from accessing a highway or street, prevents an emergency service responder from responding to an emergency, or prevents an emergency vehicle or an emergency service responder from having access to an exit from an emergency.
(2) Upon receipt of a request or order from an emergency service responder to remove or cease the obstruction, the person refuses to remove or cease the obstruction.
(b) Subsection (a) of this section does not limit or affect the application of Ohio R.C. 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code. Any conduct that is a violation of subsection (a) of this section and that also is a violation of Ohio R.C. 2921.31 or any other section of the Ohio Revised Code may be prosecuted under this section, the other section of the Ohio Revised Code or both sections.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of unlawfully impeding public passage of an emergency service responder, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(d) As used in this section, “emergency service responder” has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 2903.13. (ORC 2917.14)