Chapter 113 Curfew

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Title	Adopted	Subject	Affects
L.L. No. 7-2025 pdf	2025-12-16	General Provisions: Adoption of Code Amendment; Definitions; Use of Code; Penalties Amendment; Vehicles and Traffic Amendment; Alcoholic Beverages: Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages by Minors on Private Property Amendment; Animals: Keeping of Certain Animals Amendment; Dogs Amendment; Building Construction and Fire Prevention: Administration and Enforcement of Uniform Code Amendment; Buildings, Vacant Amendment; Curfew Amendment; Electrical Standards Amendment; Excavations Amendment; Fair Housing: Administration and Enforcement Amendment; Housing Code: Recreational Fires Amendment; Firearms Amendment; Flood Damage Prevention Amendment; Graffiti Amendment; Junkyards and Scrapyards Amendment; Littering Amendment; Noise Amendment; Nuisances: Nuisance Parties Amendment; Parades, Processions and Assemblies Amendment; Parks and Recreation Areas Amendment; Peace and Good Order Amendment; Peddling and Soliciting Amendment; Plumbing: Fees, Enforcement, and Penalties Amendment; Property Maintenance: Administration, Enforcement and Fees Amendment; Radioactive Materials Amendment; Sidewalk Cafes Amendment; Smoking and Tobacco Products: Use on Public Property Amendment; Solid Waste: Collection of Refuse, Recyclables and Other Waste Materials Amendment; Solid Waste: Recycling Amendment; Streets, Sidewalks and Public Places: Miscellaneous Restrictions and Requirements Amendment; Subdivision of Land Amendment; Trees Amendment; Wastewater Discharge: Wastewater Charges and Fees Amendment; Water: Water Department Fees Amendment; Watercourses Amendment; Zoning Amendment	Ch 1 Art I, Ch 1 Art II, Ch 11, Ch 68 Art I, Ch 74 Art I, Ch 74 Art II, Ch 100 Art I, Ch 107, Ch 113, Ch 122, Ch 127, Ch 131 Art IV, Ch 135 Art I, Ch 136, Ch 138, Ch 150, Ch 164, Ch 181, Ch 193, Ch 194 Art I, Ch 199, Ch 202, Ch 208, Ch 213, Ch 214 Art IV, Ch 220 Art V, Ch 226, Ch 234, Ch 238 Art I, Ch 241 Art I, Ch 241 Art II, Ch 245 Art I, Ch 250, Ch 273, Ch 289 Art V, Ch 291 Art I, Ch 293, Ch 300

[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Cortland 8-5-1969 as Ch. 12, Art. III, of the 1969 Code of Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]

§ 113-1 Hours prescribed.

Week nights. No child under the age of 16 years shall be in or upon any of the streets, parks or public places in the City in the nighttime, after the hour of 11:00 p.m. on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday nights, unless such child is accompanied by their parent, guardian, or other person having legal care or control of such child.

Weekends. No child under the age of 16 years shall be in or upon any of the streets, parks or public places in the City in the nighttime after the hours of 12:00 midnight on Friday or Saturday night, unless such child is accompanied by a parent, guardian, or other persons having legal care or control of such child.

§ 113-2 Responsibility of adult for violation by ward.

Any parents, guardian or other adult person having the legal care and custody of any child under the age of 16 years shall not allow or permit such child or ward under such age to go to or be in or upon any of the streets, parks, or public places in the City after the hours prescribed in § 113-1 on the days mentioned therein.

§ 113-3 Authority to exempt organized youth groups.

The Chief of Police or in their absence the police officer in charge of the Police Department is hereby vested with the discretionary power to exempt members of organized youth groups attending functions sponsored by such groups and approved by the Chief of Police or the officer in charge of the Police Department, from the operation of this chapter, upon request of adults in charge of such groups.

§ 113-4 Penalties for offenses.

[Amended 4-2-2002]

Any parent/guardian violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a violation of the Code of the City of Cortland, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $250.