[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Pine Plains 8-23-1976 by L.L. No. 4-1976. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Town Board of the Town of Pine Plains takes recognition of requests
by the Pine Plains Police Department and residents of the Town of
Pine Plains to impose a curfew on minors.
No person under the age of 16 years shall be or remain in or
upon any streets, sidewalks, alleys or public places of the Town of
Pine Plains, New York, between the hours of 11:30 p.m. and dawn unless
such person is accompanied by a parent, guardian or other person having
the legal control or custody of such minor person, or unless the employment
of such person makes it necessary to be upon said streets, alleys
or public places during the nighttime after said specified hours,
provided the exception shall not apply when the person under age shall
be playing or unnecessarily loitering in or upon such street, alley
or public place.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any minor
below the age of 16 years who shall be gainfully employed, during
these hours, who shall be a bona fide student of a school of evening
instruction, who shall be in attendance at a function sponsored by
a religious or school organization, or who shall be in attendance
at a properly supervised recreational program or social event during
the time necessarily required to travel between such minor's residence
and the place of assembly.
However, nothing in § 131-2 or 131-3 of this chapter shall be so construed as to authorize the arrest of any such minor person who shall have in his possession a written or printed permit signed by the parent or guardian, or person having the legal custody of such minor person, and dated in ink for the day it is to be used, which said permit shall state that the minor person is absent from home for some necessary purpose. In order that said permit shall exempt such minor person from arrest on the evening for which it is dated, the minor person shall not be found unnecessarily loitering or playing upon any of the streets, alleys or public places of the Town.
It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any parent, guardian or other person having the legal care, custody or control of a person under the age of 16 years to allow or permit any such child, ward or other person under such age, while in such legal custody, to go or be in or upon any of the streets, alleys or public places of this Town after the hour prohibited by § 131-2 of this chapter, unless there exists a reasonable necessity therefor, and they shall have furnished said minor person with the permit hereinbefore specified.
