A. Findings: The council of Draper City finds, due to a seemingly ever increasing incidence of violence and other crime among juveniles in the city, including drug related and gang related crime, that such crimes may be significantly inhibited and reduced by the enactment and enforcement of local laws establishing a curfew prohibiting juveniles from remaining idly and purposelessly on the public streets late at night.
B. Definitions:
EMERGENCY: Any errand or travel undertaken to directly and immediately seek to prevent or reduce the consequences of an illness or injury, criminal or potentially criminal activity, or fire, accident, or natural disaster, and shall include the seeking of aid and assistance from medical or emergency response personnel or the purchase of medications.
MINOR: Any unmarried, unemancipated person who is not a member of the armed forces of the United States and who is under the age of sixteen (16) for the purposes of subsection C of this section or under the age of eighteen (18) for the purposes of subsection D of this section.
PUBLIC PLACE: Any place open to the public, whether publicly or privately owned, including, but not limited to, parking lots and the interiors and exteriors of commercial establishments such as restaurants, stores or places of entertainment.
C. Under Sixteen: It is unlawful for any person under the age of sixteen (16) years to remain, loiter, or be in any public place or on any public street, sidewalk or alley within Draper City between the hours of eleven o'clock (11:00) P.M. and five o'clock (5:00) A.M.
D. Under Eighteen: It is unlawful for any person under the age of eighteen (18) years to remain, loiter, or be in any public place or on any public street, sidewalk or alley within Draper City between the hours of one o'clock (1:00) A.M. and five o'clock (5:00) A.M.
E. Exceptions: The foregoing prohibitions shall not apply to situations:
1. Where the minor is accompanied by a parent, legal guardian or other person having the legal care and custody of said minor;
2. Where the presence of the minor is connected with or required by some legitimate employment or business of the minor;
3. Where the presence of the minor is connected with a bona fide meeting, dance, party, sporting event or practice sponsored by a church, school, league, youth club or theater;
4. Where the presence of the minor is connected with an emergency;
5. Where the minor is in a motor vehicle engaged in interstate travel beginning in, traveling through, or ending in Draper City; or
6. Where the minor is in the immediate vicinity of the minor's place of residence. (Ord. 870, 11-25-2008)