[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Youngwood 7-22-1973
as Ord. No. 234.[1] Section 58-2C and D added and §§ 58-5 and 58-6
amended at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I.
Other amendments noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: This legislation was included as Ch. VII of the
1973 compilation.
In this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
The period beginning at 10:00 p.m. and ending at 6:00 a.m. of the
following morning in each case.
Any privately owned place of business carried on for profit; any
place of amusement or entertainment to which the public is invited and any
similar place.
Any person under 16 years of age. For the purpose of this chapter,
any person shall be deemed to be 16 years of age on the date of his or her
16th birthday and not before this time.
Any individual, firm, association, partnership or corporation owning,
operating, managing or conducting any establishment; and whenever used in
any clause prescribing a penalty, the word "operator," as applied to associations
or partnerships, shall include the members, partners, officers and managers
thereof or any of them, and, as applied to corporations, shall include the
officers and managers thereof or any of them.
The natural parent or a guardian or other adult person, 21 years
of age or over, responsible for the custody or care of any minor.
Any public street, highway, road, alley, park, playground, vacant
lot, public building, railway station, bus terminal or similar place.
To loiter, idle, wander, stroll, play or be.
It shall be unlawful for any minor to remain in or upon any public place
or establishment in the Borough of Youngwood after hours unless:
No parent shall knowingly permit any minor to remain in or upon any
public place or any establishment after hours unless the parent shall accompany
the minor or shall direct the minor in writing to perform an errand or engage
in other legitimate business, which writing shall be kept in the possession
of such minor; or unless such minor is engaged in gainful, lawful employment
after hours, in which case said minor shall carry written identification and
evidence of such employment.
It shall be unlawful for any operator of an establishment knowingly
to permit any minor to remain upon the premises of said establishment after
hours.
Any police officer who finds a minor violating any provisions of this
chapter shall endeavor to obtain the name, age, date of birth and address
of the minor and the names of the minor's parents. The minor shall thereupon
either be brought to the police station or appropriate police headquarters
and the parents notified or shall be taken or instructed to proceed directly
to his home. The information obtained from the minor, together with a full
report, shall be transmitted to the Chief of Police or police official in
charge who shall cause written notice to be delivered, mailed or otherwise,
to the parents of the minor advising them of the violation of this chapter.
A record of all violations shall be kept.
A.
Any parent who shall permit a minor to violate the provisions
of this chapter, after having received a notice of a prior violation shall,
after conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $5 nor
more than $300 and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such
fine and costs shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than 30
days.
B.
Any operator who shall violate this chapter shall, upon
conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $5 nor more
than $300 and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment of such fine
and costs shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than 30 days.
