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)