(A) Finding of necessity. The City Council finds that offenses against federal laws, the statutes of the state, and the ordinances of the city by minors under the age of 17 years are increasing at an alarming rate; that in a great many of the cases, a lack of proper supervision and control of the minor child by his or her parents or guardian is evident; that the increasing problem of criminal offenses by children will not be solved by sanctions imposed upon the children alone but that it is necessary that sanctions be imposed upon parents whose neglect of their duty to properly supervise and control their children is a proximate cause of the delinquency of those children.
(B) Contributing to neglect or delinquency of children. Any parent, legal guardian, or other person having the care or custody of a minor child under the age of 17 years who shall by any act, or by lack of supervision and control over that minor child, encourage, contribute toward, cause, or tend to cause that minor child to commit any delinquent or criminal act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Ord. 137, passed 5-1-1972) Penalty, see § 130.99