Source: https://ecode360.com/9918002
Timestamp: 2020-01-26 10:56:48
Document Index: 115532411

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 52', '§ 52', '§ 52', '§ 52', '§ 52', '§ 52']

Town of North Beach, MD Curfew
§ 52-1 Findings.
§ 52-3 Unlawful conduct of minors.
§ 52-4 Unlawful conduct of parents.
§ 52-5 Unlawful conduct of owners or operators of establishments.
§ 52-6 Enforcement and penalties.
Chapter 52 Curfew
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Town Council of the Town of North Beach as Art. VI of the 1982 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Mayor and Council find that:
An emergency has been created by a substantial increase in the number and in the seriousness of crimes committed by minors against persons and property within the town, and this has created a menace to the preservation of public peace, safety, health, morals and welfare.
The increase in juvenile delinquency has been caused in part by the large number of minors who are permitted to remain in public places and in certain establishments during evening hours without adult supervision.
Late evening activity by certain of our youth prevents them from concentrating on school homework, in class, or causes their absence from class. The rate of absenteeism from school has risen alarmingly in recent years while the achievement rate has rapidly decreased, resulting in an increase in failures and dropouts.
The problem of juvenile delinquency can be reduced by regulating the hours during which minors may remain in public places and in certain establishments without adult supervision, and by imposing certain duties and responsibilities upon the parents or other adult persons who have care and custody of minors.
Any individual, firm, association, partnership or corporation, operating, managing or conducting any establishment; and whenever used in any clause prescribing a penalty, the term "operator" as applied to associations or partnerships shall include the members or partners thereof, and as applied to corporations, shall include the officers thereof.
Any natural parent of a minor, a guardian or any person 21 years of age or over, responsible for the care and custody of a minor.
Any public street, highway, road, alley, park, playground, wharf, dock public building or vacant lot.
To loiter, lounge, idle, wander, stroll or play in or upon.
No minor shall remain in or upon any public place or any establishment between the hours of 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.
Any minor accompanied by a parent or adult relative;
Nor to a minor upon an errand directed by such minor's parent;
Nor to a minor attending a cultural, scholastic, athletic or recreational activity supervised by a bona fide organization;
Nor to any minor who is engaged in gainful lawful employment during the curfew hours.
No parent shall knowingly permit any minor not exempted under § 52-3 to remain in or upon any public place or any establishment between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.
No operator of any establishment, or his agents or employees, shall knowingly permit any minor to remain upon the premises of said establishment between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.
Any police officer who finds a minor violating any provision of this chapter shall obtain information from such minor as to his name and address, age and the name of his parent or parents. The minor shall thereupon be instructed to proceed to his home forthwith. The information obtained from the minor shall be reported to the Police Department, which shall cause a written notice to be mailed to the parent or parents of the minor, advising of the violation of this Article.
Any parent who shall violate any provision of this ordinance after having received notice of a prior violation or occurring within the preceding 12 months shall be deemed to have committed a municipal infraction, punishable as provided in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article III, Penalties.[1]
Notice is presumed to be received by a parent if it is deposited in a depository for mailing United States mail, properly addressed and with the proper first class postage paid. Such mailing may be shown by the records of the sending agency made in the regular course of its business.
Violation of this ordinance by the operator of an establishment and any agents or employees of any operator is declared to be a municipal infraction, punishable as provided in Chapter 1, General Provisions, Article III, Penalties.[2]