(a) As used in this section “adult person” means a person eighteen years of age or older.
(b) No parent, guardian, or other adult person having the care or custody of a minor under the age of eighteen years shall knowingly permit such minor to loiter, idle, wander, stroll, or play in or upon the public streets, other public places, places of amusement and entertainment, vacant lots or other unsupervised places in violation of Section 509.08.
(c) Any parent, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of a minor who violates this section shall for the first offense be warned by the proper officer and the child taken home; for the second offense under this section, such parent, guardian or other adult person shall be guilty of a minor misdemeanor; and for the third or subsequent violation under this section, such parent, guardian or other adult person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. A separate offense shall be deemed committed for each violation under this section. (Ord. 48-97. Passed 6-2-97.)