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AN ORDINANCE TO ESTABLISH A CURFEW APPLICABLE TO JUVENILES AND REGULATING THEIR PRESENCE ON PUBLIC STREETS AND OTHER PLACES AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF
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BE IT ORDAINED by the city council for the city of Jonesboro, Arkansas:
SECTION 1: The City Council of the City of Jonesboro hereby finds there has been a significant increase in crime and unacceptable behavior involving juveniles within the city of Jonesboro which includes, but is not limited to noisy and rowdy behavior, breaking and entering, public drinking and littering, harassment of residents, and more serious and violent crimes including battery and murder.
SECTION 2: The City Council further finds that the offensive activities of the juveniles are not easily controlled by existing laws and ordinances because the activities are concealed whenever police officers are present and that the establishment of reasonable curfew regulations will enable the police to act reasonably and fairly to prevent the violation of laws and ordinances by juveniles.
SECTION 3: Due to the increase in illegal and unacceptable behavior, a curfew to regulate the activities of juveniles with in the city limits of the city of Jonesboro is necessary in an attempt to eliminate such illegal and unacceptable behavior by juveniles.
SECTION 4: For the purposes of the ordinance the following terms, words and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein.
(A) JUVENILE OR MINOR IS ANY PERSON UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN (18).
(B) PARENT is any person having custody of a juvenile (I) as a natural or adoptive parent, (II) as a legal guardian, (III) as a person who stands in loco parentis, (IV) as a person to whom legal custody has been given by order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
(C) REMAIN means to stay behind, linger and to stay unnecessarily upon the streets, including the congregation of groups (or interacting minors) totaling three or more persons in which any juvenile involved would n...
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