For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CIVIL EMERGENCY.
(1) A riot of unlawful assembly, charac-terized by the use of actual force of violence, or any threat to use force, if accompanied by immediate power to execute such force, by three or more persons acting together without authority of law; or
(2) Any natural disaster, or human-made calamity, including but not limited to a flood, conflagration, cyclone, tornado, earthquake, or explosion within the corporate limits of this city, resulting in the death or injury of persons, or the destruction of property, to such an extent that extraordinary measures must be taken to protect the public health, safety, and welfare.
CURFEW. A prohibition against any person or persons walking, running, loitering, standing, or motoring upon any alley, street, highway, public property, or vacant premises within the corporate limits of the city during the hours in which a curfew has been imposed, excepting persons officially designated to duty with reference to the civil emergency.
(1987 Code, § 6-25) (Ord. 1580, passed 12-22-1969)