As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
LOITERING
Remaining idle in essentially one (1) location, and shall
include the concepts of spending time idly, loafing or walking about
aimlessly, and shall also include the colloquial expression "hanging
around".
PARENT OR GUARDIAN
Includes any adult person having care or custody of a minor,
whether by reason of blood relationship, the order of any court or
otherwise.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place to which the public has access, and shall include
any street, highway, road, alley or sidewalk. It shall also include
the front or the neighborhood of any store, shop, restaurant, tavern
or other place of business and public grounds, areas and parks, as
well as parking lots or other vacant private property not owned by
or under the control of the person charged with violating this chapter
or, in the case of a minor, not owned or under the control of his
parent or guardian.
No parent or guardian of a minor under the age of eighteen (18)
years shall knowingly permit the minor to loiter in violation of this
chapter.
Whenever any minor under the age of eighteen (18) years is adjudicated
to be in violation of this chapter, his parent or guardian shall be
notified of this fact by the Chief of Police or any other person designated
by him to give such notice.
If at any time within thirty (30) days following the giving of notice as provided in §
129-4, the minor to whom such notice relates again violates this chapter, it shall be presumed in the absence of evidence to the contrary that the minor did so with the knowledge and permission of his parent or guardian.
[Amended 5-18-1982 by Ord. No. 16-82]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall,
upon conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars ($500.) or imprisonment not exceeding ninety (90) days, or
both, in the discretion of the court.