For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
JUVENILE OR MINOR. Any person under the age of 18 or, in equivalence phrasing often herein employed, any person 17 years of age or less.
NORMAL SCHOOL HOURS. All the time between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
PARENT. Any person having custody of a juvenile as a natural or adoptive parent, as a legal guardian, as a person who stands in loco parentis, as a person to whom legal custody has been given by order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
REMAIN. To stay behind, to tarry and to stay unnecessarily upon the streets, including the congregating of groups (or of interacting minors) totalling three 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.
STREET. A way or place, of whatever nature, open to the use of the public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular travel or in the case of a sidewalk thereof for pedestrian travel. The term street includes that legal right-of-way, including but not limited to 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 formally 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.
TIME OF NIGHT. As referred to herein is based upon the prevailing standard of times, whether Central Standard Time or Central Daylight Savings Time, generally observed at that hour by the public in the city, prima facie the time then observed in the city police station.
YEARS OF AGE. Continues from the birthday, such as the seventeenth to (but not including the day of) the next, such as the eighteenth birthday, making it clear that seventeen or less years of age be treated as equivalent to the phrase “under 18 years of age.”
(Ord. 206, passed 11-9-92; Am. Ord. 354, passed 4-19-04)