In this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
MINOR
Any unmarried person under the age of 18 years.
PARENT
Any natural or adoptive parent of a minor, a legal guardian,
or any adult person 21 years of age who stands in loco parentis, or
any person to whom legal custody of a minor has been given by court
order.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any public street, sidewalk, highway, road, alley, park,
playground, public building or vacant lot.
REMAIN
To stay behind, to tarry and to stay unnecessarily upon the
streets, including the congregating of groups or of interacting minors
totaling four or more persons, in which any minor 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 for purposes of vehicular travel or, in the case of a sidewalk
thereof, for pedestrian travel. The term "street" includes the legal
right-of-way, including but not limited to the cartway of traffic
lanes, the curb, the sidewalks, whether paved or unpaved, any grassplots
or other grounds found within the legal right-of-way of a "street."
The term "street" also applies, for curfew purposes, to ways the public
is privileged to use over private property so long as the owner permits,
including sidewalks and grassplots similarly open at the time to public
use, and to parking areas of any type (residential, municipal or commercial)
open to public use or from such "street" or any type of "street."
The term "street" applies irrespective of what it is called or formally
named, whether alley, avenue, court, road or otherwise, or whether
it is open to the use of the public as a matter of right.
TIME OF NIGHT
Based upon the prevailing standard of time, whether Eastern
standard time or Eastern daylight saving time, generally observed
at that hour by the public in the Township, prima facie the time then
observed in the Township administrative offices and police station.
YEAR OF AGE
Continues from one birthday, such as the seventeenth, to
(but not including the day of) the next, such as the eighteenth birthday,
making it clear that 17 or fewer years of age is herein treated as
equivalent to the phrase "under 18 years of age."