03-11-03: PURPOSE:

The purposes of this Article are as follows:

   (1)   To provide for and further the health, safety and welfare of the public;

   (2)   To protect juveniles' health and welfare which include their care, guidance and control;

   (3)   That parents, guardians and/or other persons having legal custody are responsible for providing for the physical custody, welfare and control of a child and to determine where and with whom the child shall live, and to provide the child with care, education and discipline;

   (4)   To reduce instances of juvenile nocturnal crime;

   (5)   A child who is unaccompanied by an adult having custodial rights or an adult person designated by a person having custodial rights and who remains upon public streets, highways, roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds or other public grounds, places, buildings, places of amusement, eating places, vacant lots or other locations, unsupervised by such adult, having unlawful authority to be at such place during certain evening and early morning hours is at greater risk for injury, becoming a victim of crime, being involved in criminal activity, being a danger to persons or property or otherwise being subject to danger. (Ord. 96-010, 5-15-1996)