(A) No person having custody or control of a minor child under ten years of age shall, with criminal negligence leave the child unattended in or at any place for such period of time as may be likely to endanger the health or welfare of the child.
(B) It shall be lawful and the duty of a police officer or other peace officer finding a child confined in violation of the terms of this section, to enter the place and remove the child, using such force as is reasonably necessary to effect an entrance to the place where the child may be confined in order to remove the child.
(C) PLACE shall include but not be restricted to vehicles.
(Ord. 461, passed 6-8-1998) Penalty, see § 131.999