(a) Minors Under Twelve. No minor child under the age of twelve years shall loiter, idle, or congregate in or on any public street, highway, alley, park, or other public place between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the following day, unless the child is accompanied by a parent or guardian, or some adult person over the age of twenty-one years delegated by a parent or guardian to accompany said child.
(1981 Code § 9.141)
(b) Minors Under Fifteen. No minor child under the age of fifteen shall loiter, idle, or congregate in or on any public street, highway, alley, park, or other public place between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the following day, except where the child is accompanied by a parent or guardian, or some adult person over the age of twenty-one years delegated by the parent or guardian to accompany the minor, or where the minor child is upon an errand or other legitimate business directed by his or her parent or guardian.
(1981 Code § 9.142)
(c) Minors Under Seventeen. No minor under the age of seventeen years shall loiter, idle, or congregate in or on any public street, highway, alley, park, or other public place between the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the following day, except where the minor is accompanied by a parent or guardian, or some adult person over the age of twenty-one years delegated by the parent or guardian to accompany said minor child, or where the minor is upon an errand or other legitimate business directed by his or her parent or guardian.
(1981 Code § 9.143)
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(d) Complicity. No person of the age of seventeen years or over shall assist, aid, abet, allow, permit, or encourage any minor under the age of seventeen years to violate any of the provisions of subsections (a) through (c) hereof, or shall harbor any such child in any other public place or on its premises, contrary to any of the provisions of subsections (a) through (c) hereof.
(1981 Code § 9.144)
(e) Parents and Guardians. No parent, guardian, or other person having the legal care or custody of any minor child under the age of seventeen years shall allow or permit such minor child while in his or her legal custody, to loiter, idle, or congregate in or upon any public street, highway, alley, park, or other public place, contrary to any of the provisions of subsections (a) through (c) hereof.
(1981 Code § 9.145)
(f) Juvenile Arrest Procedure. Arrests and prosecution of minors under the age of seventeen years for a violation of this chapter shall be in accordance with Section 14 and the other provisions of Chapter XIIA (M.S.A. Sec. 27.3178 (598.1) et seq.) of Act 288 of the Public Acts of 1939, State of Michigan, as amended.
(1981 Code § 9.146)
(g) Definitions. As used in this section:
(1) "Harbor" shall include the tacit or express permission to said child by the owner, proprietor, occupant, or any agent thereof, to remain on or about the premises for a time longer than reasonably necessary for said child to transact such business as he or she may have there.
(2) "Loiter" shall include aimlessly driving or riding in or on any automobile, motorcycle, motor driven cycle, or any other motor driven vehicle, on the streets, alleys, highways, or public thoroughfares of the City without an immediate and predetermined destination.
(3) "Other public places" shall include privately owned places of business, and the premises thereof, serving the public or open to the public, such as restaurants, laundromats, gas stations, theaters, and other places of public amusement.
(1981 Code § 9.147)