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ASSIGNED SCHOOL. The location where a student is registered to attend, during compulsory school time when the class or activity is in session or the student is dealing with school business.
AUTHORIZATION. A permission slip given by a school authority to excuse a student from being in the usual assigned school location in accordance with school policy or a note from the parent or guardian giving permission for the student to be absent from school. The permission slip must be in the immediate possession of the student at all times when not at the assigned school location during school hours.
COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE MINOR. A person not less than six (6) and under sixteen (16) years of age that is not exempted and must be attending a public or regularly established private school during the school year of the district in which the minor resides.
GUARDIAN.
(1) A person who, under Court Order, is the guardian of the person or minor; or
(2) A public or private agency with whom a minor has been placed by Court action.
MINOR. Any unemancipated person under the age of seventeen (17) years of age.
PARENT. A person who is:
(1) A natural parent, adoptive parent or step-parent who has the responsibility for the health, welfare, care, maintenance and supervision of a minor; or
(2) Another person, at least eighteen (18) years of age and authorized by a parent or guardian to have the care and custody of a minor.
REGULAR SCHOOL HOURS. The hours of the full-time school that the minor would attend in the school district where the minor resides on any day that school is in session; or, if the school in the school district of residence is unknown, REGULAR SCHOOL HOURS are the school hours of the Flint Public School District, on any day that the school is in session.
TRUANCY. The act or condition of being absent from school without permission. An unapproved absence from school.
(Ord. 3687, passed 2-26-2007)
(a) If the minor of a guardian or parent residing within the City commits a delinquent act, the guardian or parent shall be guilty of a violation of this article if:
(1) It is proven that any act, word or non- exercise of parental responsibility by the guardian or parent encouraged, caused or allowed to occur the commission of the delinquent act by the minor; or
(2) It is proven that the guardian or parent knew or reasonably should have known that the minor was likely to commit a delinquent act, but failed to take timely and appropriate action to prevent the commission of the delinquent act by the minor. If at any time within forty-five (45) days following the giving of notice as provided by § 31-5.3 above, the minor to whom said notice related or applied as to the delinquent act as defined in this article, it shall be a rebuttable presumption that the minor committed the delinquent act with the knowledge, allowance, permission or sufferance of the guardian or parent.
(b) Any person in violation of §§ 31-5.1 through 31-5.4 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction may be ordered to perform twenty (20) hours of community service and, in addition, shall be subject to a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) or ninety (90) days in jail, or both fine and jail in the discretion of the Court.
(Ord. 3272, passed 3-14-1994; Ord. 3687, passed 2-26-2007)
Statutory reference:
Revised School Code, see MCLA 380.1561 et seq.
Status of Minors and Child Support, see MCLA 722.1 et seq.
Any person who shall by any act, or by any word, encourage, contribute toward, cause or tend to cause any minor child under the age of 17 years to become neglected or delinquent so as to come or tend to come under the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Division of the Probate Court, or cause or permit any minor child to engage in any occupation that would be likely to endanger the minor child’s health or deprave the minor child’s morals, or to habitually permit the child to frequent the company of or consort with reputed thieves or prostitutes, whether or not such child in fact be adjudicated a ward of the Probate Court shall be guilty of a violation of this ordinance.
(Ord. 1662, passed 1-22-1962; Ord. 2319, passed 3-13-1972)
Statutory reference:
Similar State law, see MSA § 28.340
No minor of the age of 12 years or under shall loiter, idle, congregate or be in or on any public street, highway, alley, park or public place between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. unless the minor child is accompanied by a parent or guardian or some adult delegated by the parent or guardian to accompany the child.
(Ord. 1841, passed 5-10-1965; Ord. 1871, passed 10-18-1965; Ord. 3759, passed 10-12-2009)
No minor of the age of 12 years or under, from Monday through Thursday, during the school year, shall loiter, idle, congregate or be in or on any public street, highway, alley, park or public place between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. unless the minor child is accompanied by a parent or guardian or some adult delegated by the parent or guardian to accompany the child. Section 31-7 shall be applicable when school is not in session.
(Ord. 3759, passed 10-12-2009)
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