(a) No parent of a child under the age of eighteen years, having the custody and control of such child, shall by any act or conduct, or by failure to exercise reasonable parental control and discipline of such child, aid, abet, induce, cause, encourage or contribute to any act of delinquency on the part of such child.
As used in this section, "act of delinquency" means any act or conduct, by any person, which violates any law of the United States, the State of Ohio, or any ordinance or regulation of a political subdivision of such State and which constitutes a crime if committed by a person eighteen years of age or older; which act or conduct is done or engaged in subsequent to a final determination by a court of competent jurisdiction, in a proceeding or prosecution to which such person was a party, that such person had done any such act or had engaged in any such conduct.
(Ord. 71-31. Passed 2-16-71.)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.