Chapter 11 · Public Offenses

Article 3. Curfew

Sections 11-302 to 11-304 · 4 sections

11-301 Purpose.

The purpose of this section is to: (a) promote the general welfare and protect the general public through the reduction of juvenile violence and crime within the city; (b) promote the safety and well-being of the city’s youngest citizens, persons under the age of 18, whose inexperience renders them particularly vulnerable to becoming participants in unlawful activities, particularly unlawful drug activities, and being victimized by older perpetrators of crime; and (c) foster and strengthen parental responsibility for children.

(Ord. 1539; Code 2020)

11-302 Curfew; minors.

It shall be an infraction violation for any child under the age of eighteen (18) years to remain in or upon any public place within the city, to remain in any motor vehicle operating or parked therein or thereon or to remain in or upon the premises of any establishment within the city, between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m., unless:

(a)The minor is accompanied by a parent or legal guardian; or

(b)The minor is involved in an emergency; or

(c)The minor is in an employment activity, or is going to or returning home from such activity, without detour or stop; or

(d)The minor is attending an activity sponsored by a school, religious, or civic organization or entity, which activity is supervised by adults, and/or the minor is going to or returning from such activity without detour or stop; or

(e)The minor is involved in interstate travel through, or beginning or terminating in, the city of Enterprise; or

(f)The minor is on a sidewalk directly abutting a place where he or she resides with a parent or guardian.

(Ord. 1539; Code 2020)

11-303 Curfew; parent or guardian.

It shall be unlawful for any parent or legal guardian to allow or knowingly or unknowingly, by the lack of sufficient control, any minor to remain in or upon any public place within the city, to remain in any motor vehicle operated or parked therein, or thereon, or remain in or upon the premises of any establishment within the city, between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m. unless:

(a)The minor is accompanied by a parent or legal guardian; or

(b)The minor is involved in an emergency; or

(c)The minor is in an employment activity, or is going to or returning home from such activity, without detour or stop; or

(d)The minor is attending an activity sponsored by a school, religious, or civic organization or entity, which activity is supervised by adults, and/or the minor is going to or returning from such activity without detour or stop; or

(e)The minor is involved in interstate travel through, or beginning or terminating in, the city of Enterprise; or

(f)The minor is on a sidewalk directly abutting a place where he or she resides with a parent or guardian.

No citation shall be issued to a parent or legal guardian on a first time offense committed by a minor. Parents or legal guardians may be issued a citation for second and subsequent offenses committed by the same minor.

(Ord. 1539; Code 2020)

11-304 Penalty.

Section 11-302 is a “status offense” punishable by fine only in the municipal court. Section 11-303 shall be an unclassified misdemeanor. Both the juvenile and a parent must appear before the Municipal Court on this complaint.

(Ord. 1539; Code 2020)