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, or, in equivalent phrasing often herein employed, any person 17 or less years of age.
PARENT. Any person having legal custody of a minor:
(1) As a 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 court.
REMAIN. To stay behind, to tarry and to stay unnecessarily upon the streets.
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 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. Based upon the prevailing standard of time, whether eastern standard time or eastern daylight saving time, generally observed at that hour by the public in the city, prima facie the time then observed in the city.
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".