EMANCIPATED: Any person either eighteen (18) years of age or older, or if under the age of eighteen (18), any person who is married or has been married; or any person who is in active military service; or any person who is both self- supporting and neither resides with nor is subject to parental control.
EMERGENCY: Includes any unforeseen health, accident or crime related exigency calling for immediate action.
INCORRIGIBLE: Any juvenile who is uncontrollable.
JUVENILE: Any person less than the age of eighteen (18) and who has not been duly emancipated.
PARENT: Any person having legal custody of a juvenile: a) as a natural or adoptive parent; b) as a legal guardian; c) as a person who stands in loco parentis; or d) 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, including the congregating of groups (or of interacting juveniles) totaling four (4) or more persons in which any juvenile involved would not be using the streets for ordinary or serious purposes such as mere passage or going home.
RUNAWAY: A juvenile under the age of eighteen (18) who has physically removed himself from the supervision and control of his parents with the intent to remain beyond the control of his parents.
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. The term "street" includes the legal right of way, including, but not limited to, the cartway or traffic lanes, 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 be called or formally named, whether alley, avenue, court, road or otherwise. The term "street" shall also include shopping centers, parking lots, parks, playgrounds, public buildings and similar areas that are open to the public.
TIME OF NIGHT: Referred to herein is based upon the prevailing standard of time, whether Mountain Standard Time or Mountain Daylight Savings Time, generally observed at that hour by the public in the City, prima facie the time then observed in the Emergency Dispatch Center.
TRUANCY: As defined in the school regulations.
YEARS OF AGE: Continues from one birthday, such as the sixteenth to (but not including the day of) the next, such as the seventeenth birthday. (Ord. 2573, 2-23-1998)
(A) Goals: The City of Twin Falls area recognizes the importance of school attendance. Children must be taught in order to live in an ordered society.
(B) Prohibited Acts: Any person between the ages of seven (7) years and sixteen (16) years of age, living in the City who is deemed truant from school or class, under the attendance regulations of the school, without the consent of the student's parent/guardian or school officials is guilty of a status offense.
(C) Responsibility For Instruction: The parent or guardian of any child resident in this State who has attained the age of seven (7) years at the time of the commencement of school in his/her district, but not the age of sixteen (16) years, shall cause the child to be instructed in subjects commonly and usually taught in the public schools for the State. Unless the child is otherwise comparably instructed, the parent or guardian shall cause the child to attend a public, private, or parochial school during a period in each year equal to that in which the public schools are in session; they are to conform to the attendance policies and regulations established by the Board of Trustees, or other governing body, operating the school attended, or the attendance requirements of the parents in home schools.
(D) Exceptions: Any exceptions to the requirement as codified by any school district contained in Idaho Code, title 33, chapter 2 are hereby recognized and given full force and effect. (Ord. 2573, 2-23-1998)
(A) Goals: The City Council of the City recognizes the importance of the family as crucial to a child's development.
(B) Specifics: It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of eighteen (18), living or found in the jurisdiction, to attempt to run away or to run away from his parents, guardian or other legal custodian, or to be or remain a person who has run away from his parents, guardian or other legal custodian, or who commits or has committed any act or acts which render him incorrigible or places him beyond the control of his parents, guardian or other legal custodian. (Ord. 2573, 2-23-1998)
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