Every law enforcement officer is authorized and empowered to demand from any person whom he or she has reasonable cause to believe comes within the provisions of this chapter and who is found loitering, idling, wandering, strolling or playing in or upon the public streets, highways, roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds or other public ground, public places, public buildings, places of amusement and entertainment, vacant lots or other unsupervised places or trespass on private property without his or her parents, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of such person, between the hours of ten p.m. and six a.m. of the following day, that such person give his or her name, address, parents' names and furnish proof of his or her age or proof that he or she is upon an emergency errand or legitimate business directed by his or her parents, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of such person, and upon the failure of such person to give or furnish any or all of the information any such officer is authorized and empowered to take such person into custody and take him or her to his or her home, or communicate with his or her parents, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of such person and demand the information hereinabove required to be given. If such person so taken into custody is a person coming within the provisions of this chapter, any such law enforcement officer is authorized and empowered to demand of the parents, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of such minor, that they take such minor to his or her home.
The failure of any such parent, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of such minor to furnish the information hereinabove required or to take such minor home when so demanded by any such law enforcement officer is declared to be misdemeanor and shall be punished as hereinafter provided. Further provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to a parent, guardian or other adult person where the minor is legally married, but the minor, nevertheless, shall remain subject to the provisions of this section.
(Ord. 10 § 3, 1960)