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525.02 CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.
   No person shall cruelly ill treat, abuse or inflict unnecessary cruel punishment upon, any infant or minor child, and no person, having the care, custody or control of any minor child, shall willfully abandon or neglect the minor child.
   In addition to any penalty provided under this section and any restitution which may be ordered by the court, the court may order any person convicted under the provisions of this section to pay all or any portion of the cost of medical, psychological or psychiatric treatment of the victim, the need for which results from the act or acts for which the person is convicted, whether or not the victim is considered to have sustained bodily injury.
(WVaC 61-8-24)
525.03 RECOVERY FROM DAMAGES BY MINORS.
   The City or any person or organization of any kind or character shall be entitled to recover damages in an amount not more than as provided in West Virginia Code 55-7A-2 in any court of competent jurisdiction from the parent or parents of any minor child under the age of eighteen years, living with the parent or parents, who maliciously or willfully destroys property, real, personal or mixed, situated within the City and belonging to the City or any person or organization of any kind or character.
   The recovery hereunder shall be limited to the actual damages in addition to taxable court costs. However, the right of action and remedy therefor granted herein shall be in addition to and not exclusive of any rights of action and remedies therefor against a parent or parents for the injurious acts of his, her or their minor children heretofore existing under the provisions of any law, statutory or otherwise, or now so existing independently of the provisions of this section, except this right of action shall not be in addition to that certain cause of action set forth in West Virginia Code 55-7A-2.
525.04 CURFEW.
   (a)    Children on Streets at Night. No person under fourteen years of age shall be or remain upon any street or alley or other public place in the City between 9:30 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. unless such person is accompanied by a parent or guardian, or other person having custody of such minor or unless in the performance of duty directed by such parent or guardian or other person having custody or unless such person is in lawful employment making it necessary to be in such places after 9:30 p.m.
   (b)    Permitting Children to Violate Curfew. No person having the legal care and custody of any person under fourteen years of age shall allow or permit such person to go or be upon any public street, alley or other public place in the City in the nighttime as restricted in subsection (a) hereof, except in case of necessity.
   (c)    Detaining Child. Every member of the police force while on duty is hereby authorized to detain any such minor willfully violating the provisions of subsection (a) hereof until the parent or guardian of the child shall take him or her into custody; but such officer shall immediately upon taking custody of the child communicate with the parent or guardian.
   (d)    Delinquent or Mendicant Children. If it appears that any child taken into custody for a violation of subsection (a) hereof is growing up in mendicancy or vagrancy, or is incorrigible, for lack of proper parental care or has no home, proper proceedings shall be instituted pursuant to State statute.
(Ord. 468. Passed 7-18-78.)
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