For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CURFEW. A prohibition against any person or persons walking, running, loitering, standing or motoring upon any alley, street, highway, public property or vacant premises within the corporate limits of the village during the hours in which a curfew has been imposed, excepting persons officially designated to duty with reference to the civil emergency.
EMERGENCY.
(1) A riot or unlawful assembly characterized by the use of actual force or violence or any threat to use force if accompanied by immediate power to execute the force by three or more persons acting together without authority of law.
(2) Any natural disaster or human-made calamity including flood, conflagration, cyclone, tornado, earthquake, nuclear explosion or other explosion within the corporate limits of the village resulting in the death or injury of persons or the destruction of property to such an extent that extraordinary measures must be taken to protect the public health, safety and welfare.
(Prior Code, § 5-2-1) (Ord. 989, passed 9-1-1985)