For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "Minor" means any person under the age of eighteen, or, an equivalent phrasing often herein employed, any person seventeen or less years of age.
(b) "Parent" means 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.
(c) "Remain" means to stay behind, to tarry and to stay unnecessarily upon the streets, including, but not limited to, the congregating of groups totaling four or more persons in which any minor involved would not be using the streets for ordinary or serious purposes such as mere passage or going home.
(d) "Street" means a way or place, of whatsoever nature, open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purpose 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, the cartway or 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. The term street applies irrespective of what it is called or formerly named, whether alley, avenue, court, road, or otherwise. The term street shall also include shopping centers, parking lots, parks, playgrounds, public buildings, the common areas of public housing developments, and similar areas that are open to the use of the public.
(e) "Time of night" means the prevailing standard of time, whether Eastern Standard Time or Eastern Daylight Saving Time, generally observed at that hour by the public in Springfield, Ohio, prima facie the time then observed in the Springfield, Ohio, administrative offices and police station.
(f) "Community service" means such public service as the Juvenile Court shall determine is appropriate in connection with proved juvenile curfew violations under this chapter.
(Ord. 93-137. Passed 4-27-93.)