[Ord. 365, 5/18/1970, § 1]
ESTABLISHMENT
Any privately owned place or business carried on for a profit
or any place of amusement or entertainment to which the public is
invited.
MINOR
Any person under the age of 18 years.
OFFICIAL TOWNSHIP TIME
Eastern Standard Time except when Daylight Saving Time is
the prevailing time in this Commonwealth.
OPERATOR
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.
PARENT
Any natural or adopting parent of a minor, a guardian, or
any adult person, 21 years of age or over, responsible for the care
and custody of a minor.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any public street, highway, road, alley, park, playground,
wharf, dock, public building or vacant lot.
REMAIN
To loiter, idle, wander, stroll or play in or upon.
[Ord. 365, 5/18/1970, § 2]
1. It shall be unlawful for any minor to remain in or upon any public
place or any establishment between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00
a.m. of the following day, Township time, except that on Friday and
Saturday evenings the commencement hour shall be extended to 12:00
midnight.
2. The provisions of this Part 1 shall not apply to any minor accompanied
by a parent, or to a minor upon an errand or other legitimate business
directed by such minor's parent, or to any minor who is engaged
in gainful lawful employment during the curfew hours.
3. Each violation of the provisions of this Part 1 shall constitute
a separate offense.
[Ord. 365, 5/18/1970, § 3]
1. It shall be unlawful for any parent knowingly to permit any minor
to remain in or upon any public place or any establishment in West
Norriton Township between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of
the following day, official Township time, except that on Friday and
Saturday evenings the commencement hour shall be extended to 12:00
midnight.
2. The provisions of this Part 1 shall not apply to any parent who accompanies
a minor or to a parent who directs a minor upon an errand or other
legitimate business or to any parent of a minor engaged in gainful
lawful employment during the curfew hours.
3. Each violation of the provisions of this Part 1 shall constitute
a separate offense.
[Ord. 365, 5/18/1970, § 4; as amended by Ord. 387,
10/16/1972, § 1]
1. It shall be unlawful for any operator of any establishment or his
agents, servants and employees, knowingly to permit any minor to remain
upon the premises of said establishment between the hours of 10:00
p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the following day, Township time, except that
on Friday and Saturday evenings the commencement hour shall be extended
to 12:00 Midnight.
2. Each violation of the provisions of this Part 1 shall constitute
a separate offense.
[Ord. 365, 5/18/1970, § 5; as amended by Ord. 524,
12/31/1991]
1. Any police officer who finds a minor violating the provisions of
this Part 1 shall obtain from the minor his name, address, age and
the name of his parent or parents. The minor shall thereupon be instructed
to proceed to his home. The police officer shall ascertain, wherever
practicable, whether the parent or parents are at home and, if so,
to notify them orally of the violation of both parents and minor.
If neither of the parents are found at home, the police officer shall
include the fact in his official report. In all cases, whether or
not oral notice has been given, a written notice shall also be mailed
to the parents of the minor advising him or them of the violation
of this Part 1.
2. Any parent who shall permit a minor to violate the provisions of
this Part 1 after having received a notice of the prior violation,
and any operator of an establishment, or any of his agents, servants
or employees, who shall violate the provisions of this Part 1, shall
forfeit and pay a fine of not more than $600, the same to be collected
by a proceeding before a District Justice having jurisdiction in West
Norriton Township or recovered the same as debts of like amount are
now by law recoverable, and in default of the payment of said fine
and costs shall be liable to imprisonment in the Montgomery County
Prison for a period not exceeding 30 days, and whenever said violator
shall be notified by a representative of the Township or by service
of summons or prosecution, or in any other way, that such violation
has been committed, each day that the violator shall continue in such
violation shall constitute a separate offense, punishable by a like
fine or penalty.