A.
It shall be unlawful for any person, adult or minor,
to remain, idle, wander, stroll or play in any common, park or playground,
either on foot, bicycle or any kind of vehicle, of the City, as follows:
(1)
All commons, parks and playgrounds under the direct control of the City and/or regulatory control of the Board of Parks, between the hours of one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise. Exceptions to the provisions of this Subsection A(1) shall be:
[Amended 7-14-1998]
(a)
Commons, parks and playgrounds under the regulatory
control of the Board of Parks of the City between the hours of 10:00
p.m. and 5:00 a.m. from April 1 to November 1 of each year, with the
exception of Alumni Field and Cawley Stadium and Harry Allen and Bartlett
Fields.
(b)
Those lighted recreational areas within the
commons, parks, and playgrounds under the direct control of the City
and/or under the regulatory control of the Board of Parks of the City
between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. from April 1 to November
1 of each year, with the exception of Alumni Field and Cawley Stadium
and Harry Allen and Bartlett Fields.
(2)
Commons and parks under the control of the School
Department, between the hours of one hour after sunset and one hour
before sunrise.
(3)
Playgrounds or schoolyards under the control of the
School Department, those off-limits hours set and posted by the School
Department.
B.
All public places, roads, streets, ways and sidewalks
abutting any of the above-mentioned commons, parks and playgrounds
shall, during the above-mentioned curfew hours, be utilized for the
purpose of travel, and it shall be unlawful for any person to remain
idle, loiter or conduct himself in any form of recreation.
Authorized activity permitted by the issuance of a permit by the City, Board of Parks or School Department shall extend the hours in § 214-2 as of the common, park or playground under such control for the particular common, park or playground only.
It shall be unlawful for a parent, guardian
or other adult person having custody or control of any minor under
the age of 17 to suffer to permit or by inefficient control to allow
such person to be on a common, park or playground during the hours
as prescribed in this article or posted for a particular common, playground
or park unless such parent, guardian, custodian or other adult person
has made a missing person notification to the Police Department.
A.
Any police officer of the City, upon finding a minor in violation of § 214-3, shall ascertain the true name and address of such minor and shall warn the minor that he or she is in violation of the hours established and shall direct the minor to proceed at once to his or her home or usual place of abode. The police officer shall make an official report to the Superintendent of Police, who shall direct his representative to notify the parent or guardian or person having custody or control of such minor. The first violation within a calendar year shall constitute a warning and shall so be noted in the records of the Police Department.
B.
Upon a second or subsequent violation by a minor or
if such minor refuses to heed a warning or direction of any police
officer of the City or refuses to give or attempts to falsify his
true name and/or address or true age, he or she shall be taken to
the Police Department and the parent, guardian or other adult person
having custody of such minor shall be notified to come and take charge
of the minor. If the parent, guardian or other adult person cannot
be located or fails to come and take charge of the minor within a
reasonable time of such notification by the Police Department, the
juvenile probation officer shall be contacted and shall take charge
of the minor or shall authorize the release of the minor to a responsible
person.
Any police officer of the City, upon viewing a violation by any person, other than a minor, of the provisions of § 214-3 of this article shall have the right to arrest such person and bring him to the police station to be properly identified and then released by the court representative on personal recognizance for further appearance at the next sitting of the District Court of the City for violation of this article.
A.
A person, other than a minor, violating the provisions of § 214-3 of this article and found guilty shall be subject to a fine of $10 for the first offense and $50 for each subsequent offense thereafter.
B.
Any minor found violating the provisions of § 214-3 of this article shall be summoned to the Juvenile Court of the Lowell District Court on the second or each subsequent offense. Any parent, guardian or other adult person having custody or control of a minor who violates the provisions of § 214-3 of this article and who is found guilty by the Juvenile Court of Lowell District Court of a second violation shall be subject to a fine of $10 and for each subsequent offense a fine of $50 thereafter.
