Ord 0299- REGULATING THE PRESENCE OF MINORS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 YEARS IN PUBLIC STREETS AND OTHER PLACES BETWEEN CERTAIN HOURS, DEFINING DUTIES OF PARENTS OR OTHERS IN CARE OF MINORS, PROVIDING FOR ARREST AND PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOFORDINANCE NO. q 9
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE PRESENCE OF MINORS UNDER THE AGE OF
18 YEARS IN PUBLIC STREETS AND OTHER PLACES BETWEEN CERTAIN HOURS,
DEFINING DUTIES OF PARENTS OR OTHERS IN CARE OF MINORS, PROVIDING
FOR ARREST AND PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS THEREOF, REPEALING ORDI-
NANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH.
THE TONTN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS :
Section I. LOITERING OF MINORS PROHIBITED. It shall be
unlawful for any minor under the age of 18 years to loiter, idle,
dander, stroll, or play in or upon the public streets, highways,
roads, alleys, parks, playgrounds, or,other public grounds, public
places and public buildings, places of amusement and entertainment,
vacant lots, or other unsupervised places in the Town, of Los Gatos,
between the hours of 11 o'clock P. M. and daylight of the follow-
ing day; provided, however, that the provisions of this Section
do not apply when the minor is accompanied by his or her parent,
guardian, or other adult person having the care and custody of
the minor, or where the minor is upon an emergency errand or
legitimate business directed by his or her parent, guardian, or
other adult person having the care and custody of the minor.
Each violation of the provisions of this Section shall
constitute a separate offense.
Section 2. RESPONSIBILITY OF PARENTS. It shall be
unlawful for the parent, guardian, or other adult person having
the care and custody of a minor under the age of 18 years to
permit such minor to loiter, idle, wander, stroll, or play in
or upon the public streets, highways, roads, alleys, parks,
playgrounds, or other public grounds, public places and public
buildings, places of amusement and entertainment, vacant lots
or other unsupervised places in the Town of Los Gatos between
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the hours of 11 o'clock P. M. and daylight of the following day;
provided, however, that the provisions of this Section do not
apply when the minor is accompanied by his or her parent, guar-
dian, or other adult person having the care and custody of the
minor, or where the minor is upon an emergency errand or legi-
timate business directed by his or her parent, guardian, or
other adult person having the care and custody of the minor.
Each violation of the provisions of this Section shall
constitute a separate offense.
Section 3. INVESTIGATION BY OFFICERS. Whenever any
police or other officer charged with the duty of enforcing the
lags of the State of California, or ordinances of the 'own of
Los Gatos, discovers or has his attention called to the fact
that any such minor is upon the public streets, highways, roads,
alleys, parks, playgrounds, or other public grounds, public
places and public buildings, places of amusement and entertain-
ment, vacant lots, or other unsupervised places in the Town of
Los Gatos, between the hours of 11 o'clock P.-M. and daylight
of the following day, and that such minor is not accompanied by
his or her parent, guardian, or other adult person having the
care and custody of the minor, or where the minor is not upon
an emergency errand or legitimate business directed by his or
her parent, guardian, or other adult person having the care and
custody of the minor, said officer small make an immediate inves-
tigation for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not the pres-
enee of said minor upon or in any of the places hereinabove desig-
nated, is not prohibited by the provisions of this Ordinance.
If the investigation reveals that the presence of said minor
upon or in any of the places hereinabove designated is prohi-
bited-by the provisions of this Ordinaance, then said officer
shall cause said minor to be taken to his or her home,
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or place of residence, and said minor and any person or persons
having violated the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be sum-
moned to appear before the Police Judge of the Town of Los Gatos,
to be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of this
Ordinance.
Section 4. PENALTIES. Any minor violating the provi-
sions of Section 1 shall be dealt with in accordance with the
Juvenile Court Law and Procedure. Any parent, guardian, or other
adult person having the care, and'custody of a minor violating
Section 2 shall be fined, not less than $_/0 , not, more than
_oo or confined in jail not more than 3t) days, or pun-41 ished by both said fine and imprisonment for each offense.
Section 5. REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES. All exist-
ing ordinances of the Town of Los Gatos are hereby repealed inso-
far as they may be inconsistent with the provisions of this
Ordinance.
Section 6. SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS. It is the inten-
tion of the Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos that each
separate provision of this Ordinance shall be deemed independent
of all other provisions herein, and it is further the intention
of the Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos that if any provi-
sion of this Ordinance be declared invalid, all other provisions
thereof shall remain valid and enforceable.
Section 7. This ordinance shall be published once in
- a newspaper of general
circulation, printed and published in the Town of Los Gatos.
The above and foregoing ordinance was duly and regularly
introduced at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town
of Los Gatos held on the j_~ay of 1949, U/f
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and was thereafter on theP day of
19492 duly and regularly adopted by the following vote:
AYE'S: COUNCII 4EN
NOES: COUNCILMEN
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN
ATTEST:
6L .
Town Jerk of the Towwn of Los Gatos
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