9.10.010 Definitions.
A. “Curfew hours” means between midnight and 6:00 a.m. each day of the week.
B. “Emergency” means an unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for immediate action. The term includes, but is not limited to, a fire, a natural disaster, an automobile accident or any situation requiring immediate action to prevent serious bodily injury or loss of life.
C. “Establishment” means any privately owned place of business operated for a profit to which the public is invited, including, but not limited to, any place of amusement or entertainment.
D. “Extended family members” means grandparent, brother, sister, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, or first cousin who is not a minor and with whom the juvenile (minor child) has a relationship and is comfortable with and who is willing and available to care for the juvenile.
E. “Guardian” means:
1. A person who, under court order, is the guardian of the person of a juvenile (minor); or
2. A public or private agency with whom a juvenile (minor) has been placed by a court; or
3. A person at least 18 years of age who is authorized by a parent or legal guardian to have the care and custody of a juvenile (minor).
F. “Juvenile” means any unemancipated person (minor) under the age of 18 years.
G. “Operator” means any individual, firm, association, partnership, or corporation operating, managing, or conducting any establishment open during curfew hours. The term includes the members or partners of an association or partnership and the officers of a corporation.
H. “Parent” means a person who is a natural parent, adoptive parent, foster parent, or stepparent of another person.
I. “Public place” means any place to which the public, or a substantial group of the public, has access, and includes, but is not limited to, streets, highways, and the common areas of schools, hospitals, apartment houses, sidewalks, alleys, parking lots, buildings open to the general public, including those which serve food or drink or provide entertainment, and the doorways and entrances to such buildings and the grounds enclosing them, transport facilities, shops and automobiles (whether moving or not).
J. “Remain” means to fail to leave premises when requested to do so by a police officer or owner, operator, or other person in control of the premises.
K. “Serious bodily injury” means bodily injury that creates a substantial risk of death or that causes death, serious permanent disfigurement or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ.
L. “Errand at the direction of the juvenile’s parent or guardian, or other adult person having custody or control of the juvenile” means a short trip in duration of time or distance taken to perform a specified task, for or on behalf of a person who is the juvenile’s parent or guardian, or other adult person having custody or control of the juvenile. It shall be conclusively presumed that an errand was taken on behalf of a person who is the juvenile’s parent or guardian, or other adult person having custody or control of the juvenile, if such person (who is the juvenile’s parent or guardian, or other adult person having custody or control of the juvenile) states that the juvenile was, at the time in question, on an errand on their behalf. (Ord. 5856 § 1, 2004; Ord. 5682 § 1, 2002; Ord. 5541 § 1, 2001; Ord. 5404 § 1, 2000; Ord. 5241 § 1, 1999. Formerly 9.50.010.)