As used in this Article, the following terms shall have these
prescribed meanings:
JUVENILE
Any person under eighteen (18) years of age.
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NORMAL SCHOOL HOURS
Between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M. on Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday or Friday.
PARENT
Any person having lawful custody of a juvenile as a natural
or adoptive parent or as a court appointed legal guardian of the juvenile.
REMAIN
To stay behind, to tarry and stay unnecessarily upon the
streets where the juvenile 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 as a matter of right for the purposes of vehicular travel or
in the case of a sidewalk thereof for pedestrian travel. The term
"street" includes that legal right-of-way including, but not limited
to, traffic lanes, the curb, the sidewalks, whether paved or unpaved,
and any grass plots or other grounds found within the legal right-of-way
of the street. The term "street" applies irrespective of what it is
called or formally named, whether alley, avenue, court, road or otherwise.
The term "street" also applies and shall include shopping centers,
parking lots, parks, playgrounds, public buildings, the common areas
of public housing developments and similar areas that are open to
the use of the public.
TIME OF NIGHT
Referred herein is based upon the prevailing standard of
time, whether Central Standard Time or Central Daylight-Saving Time,
generally observed at the hour by the public in the City, prima facie
the time then observed in the Sikeston Department of Public Safety
headquarters.
YEARS OF AGE
Continues from one (1) birthday, such as the seventeenth
(17th) to (but not including the day of) the next, such as the eighteenth
(18th) birthday, making it clear that seventeen (17) or less years
of age be treated as equivalent to the phrase "under eighteen (18)
years of age."
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