(A) Endangering prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person having the care, custody, control or confidence of or influence over any child to allow such child to be endangered, or the health of such child injured, or the morals of such child to be impaired, or to willfully cause or permit such child to be placed in such a position, business or occupation that his or her life, health or morals will be endangered; or to torture, torment, cruelly punish or willfully or negligently deprive such child of necessary food, clothing or shelter, or in any other manner injure such child unnecessarily.
(1976 Code, § 6-301)
(B) Employment. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to take, receive, hire or employ any child under the age of 14 years to labor in any mill, factory or in or about any business or employment whatever within the city, during the school hours of any school day.
(1976 Code, § 6-302)
(C) Presence in drinking establishments prohibited.
(1) (a) It shall be unlawful for any proprietor or keeper of a tavern or beer hall:
1. To employ any individual under the age of 19 years for serving or selling alcoholic beverages in the course of his or her employment;
2. To employ any person under the age of 16 years for removing and disposing of alcoholic liquor containers for the convenience of the employer and customers in the course of his or her employment as servers or busers; and
3. To permit any individual under the age of 19 years to be in or about such place of business after 9:00 p.m., or to obtain or to drink any alcoholic beverage in or about such place of business, or to bet or wager with playing cards or other gambling devices in or about such place of business.
(b) For the purpose of this section, a
TAVERN or BEER HALL is defined to be any establishment located within the corporate limits of the city where alcoholic beverages are sold and served and in which the service of good, if served at all, is incidental to the sale of such beverages. Service of food shall be considered incidental if the food service generates less than one-half of the gross revenue from the operation of said business.
(2) Every owner or operator of any establishment offering for sale alcoholic beverages shall, upon request of the Mayor, City Clerk or Chief of Police, permit access to all records of said establishment, and upon request, furnish, for official use only in ascertaining the type of business operated, a certified statement of the type of business operated, a certified statement of the alcoholic beverages sold, together with the amount of sales tax, if any, collected and remitted to the state on such sales made during any certain designated period.
(3) It shall be the duty of the person who is the proprietor or keeper of a tavern or beer hall, as defined in this section, to post conspicuously in his or her place of business the following sign, “Individuals Under the Age of Nineteen Years Not Allowed After 9:00 p.m.”. Failure to post such a sign shall constitute an unlawful act.
(1976 Code, § 6-303)
(D) False credentials. It shall be unlawful for any minor child to make false statements or to furnish, present or exhibit any fictitious or false registration card, identification card or note or other document, or to furnish, present or exhibit such document or documents issued to a person other than the one presenting the same, for the purpose of gaining admission to any prohibited place or for the purpose of procuring the sale, gift or delivery of prohibited articles, including liquor, beer or wine.
(1976 Code, § 6-304)
(E) Unlawful services of others.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any minor to engage or to utilize the services of any other person, whether for remuneration or not, to procure for such minor any article which the minor himself or herself is prohibited by this section from purchasing.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person, whether for remuneration or not, to procure for any minor any article which the minor is forbidden by this section from purchasing.
(1976 Code, § 6-305)
(Ord. 528, passed 3-17-1977; Ord. 685, passed 7-8-1982; Ord. 689, passed 7-29-1982; Ord. 1299, passed 1-21-2002) Penalty, see § 130.99