For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
MINOR. Any person under the age of 18.
PARENT. Any person having legal custody of a minor:
(1) As the natural or adoptive parent;
(2) As a legal guardian;
(3) As a person who stands in loco parentis; or
(4) As a person to whom legal custody has been given by order of the court.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any street, alley, highway, sidewalk, park, playground or place to which the general public has access and a right to resort for business, entertainment, or other lawful purpose. A PUBLIC PLACE shall include but not be limited to any store, shop, restaurant, tavern, bowling alley, café, theater, drugstore, pool room, shopping center, and any other place devoted to amusement or entertainment of the general public. It shall also include the front or immediate area of the above.
REMAIN. To stay behind, to tarry, and to stay unnecessarily upon the streets, including the congregating of groups (or of interacting minors) totaling four or more persons in which any minor involved would not be using the streets for ordinary or serious purposes such as mere passage or going home.
STREET. A way or place, of whatsoever nature, open to the use of the public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular travel or in the case of a sidewalk thereof for pedestrian travel. The term STREET includes the legal right-of-way, including but not limited to the cartway or traffic lanes, the curb, the sidewalks whether paved or unpaved, and any grass plots or other grounds found within the legal right-of-way of a street.
TIME OF NIGHT. The time referred to herein is based upon the prevailing standard of time, whether Central Standard Time or Central Daylight Saving Time, generally observed at that hour by the public.
YEAR OF AGE. Continues from one birthday, such as the seventeenth to (but not including the day of) the next, such as the eighteenth birthday, making it clear that 17 or less years of age is herein treated as equivalent to the phrase “under 18 years of age.”
(Prior Code, § 38-39)