(A) Upon contact of an individual whom an officer believes to be in violation of the chapter, the officer will stop the subject and ask for the subject’s name, age and/or date of birth, address and parent/guardian’s name.
(B) (1) Upon determining that the subject is a juvenile, as defined by this chapter, the officer will take the juvenile into custody. Upon taking custody of the juvenile, the officer may do one of the following:
(a) Take the juvenile home and turn the juvenile over to his or her parent/guardian; or
(b) Take the juvenile to the Police Department and notify the juvenile’s parent/guardian to come and pick the juvenile up.
(2) In either case, the officer shall educate the juvenile and his or her parent/guardian of the chapter and the penalties for violation of the chapter.
(C) The officer shall not complete a state’s Juvenile Contact Report on the juvenile, but should complete a departmental Juvenile Information Card. Once completed, the information card shall be forwarded to the Juvenile Resource Officer to be placed in a confidential file.
(D) Upon receipt of the Juvenile Information Card, the Juvenile Resource Officer shall notify the parent/guardian of the juvenile, in writing, of the violation. The letter shall include a copy of the ordinance.
(E) The town’s Police Department will issue three letters of warning to the juvenile and his or her parent/guardian before criminal charges are filed. Upon receipt of a fourth Juvenile Information Card on a juvenile, the Juvenile Resource Officer shall conduct an investigation of the incident and, if deemed appropriate, charges shall be filed against the juvenile and/or his or her parent/guardian.