Subject: 9587/City Code/25-2/Curfew for Minors Ordinance
Date: Mon, 7 May 1990 15:16:00 -0500


                                ORDINANCE NO. 9587
                   
                   
                   AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHATTANOOGA CITY CODE, 
                   PART II, SECTION 25-2, THE CURFEW FOR MINORS 
                   ORDINANCE, SO AS TO CHANGE THE HOURS OF THE 
                   CURFEW TO BE 11:00 P.M. UNTIL 6:00 A.M. FROM 
                   SUNDAY NIGHTS THROUGH FRIDAY MORNINGS AND 
                   FROM 12:00 A.M. UNTIL 6:00 A.M. FROM FRIDAY 
                   NIGHTS THROUGH SUNDAY MORNINGS.
                   
                   
                                                     
                   
                   
       	    	 SECTION 1.  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE 
       CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, That Section 25-2, Part II, 
       Chattanooga City Code, be and is hereby amended by striking said 
       Section and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
            "(a) It is unlawful for any minor under 16 years of age 
                 to loiter, wander, stroll or play in or upon the 
                 public streets, highways, roads, alleys, parks, 
                 playgrounds or other public grounds, public places, 
                 public buildings, place of amusement, eating 
                 places, vacant lots or any place unsupervised by an 
                 adult having the lawful authority to be at such 
                 places, between the hours of 11:00 p.m. on any day 
                 and 6:00 a.m. of the following day; provided, 
                 however, that on Fridays and Saturdays the 
                 effective hours are between 12 midnight and 6:00 
                 a.m. of the following day; and provided, that the 
                 provisions of this section shall not apply in the 
                 following instances:
            
                 (1)  When a minor is accompanied by his or her 
                      parent, guardian or other adult person having 
                      the lawful care and custody of the minor;
                 
                 (2)  When the minor is upon an emergency errand 
                      directed by his or her parent or guardian or 
                      other adult person having the lawful care and 
                      custody of such minor;
                 
                 (3)  When the minor is returning directly home 
                      from a school activity, entertainment, 
                      recreational activity or dance;
                 
                 (4)  When the minor is returning directly home from 
                      lawful employment that makes it necessary to 
                      be in the above-referenced places during the 
                      proscribed period of time;
                 
                 (5)  When the minor is attending or travelling 
                      directly to or from an activity involving the 
                      exercise of first amendment rights of free 
                      speech, freedom of assembly or free exercise 
                      of religion;
                 
                 (6)  When the minor is in a motor vehicle with 
                      parental consent for normal travel, with 
                      interstate travel through the City of 
                      Chattanooga, excepted in all cases from the 
                      curfew.
                 
            (b)	 It shall be unlawful for any person having the 
                 legal care and custody of any person under sixteen 
                 (16) years of age to allow or permit such minor to 
                 be in or upon the public streets or any other place 
                 listed in Section 25-2(a) within the time therein 
                 prohibited unless except in circumstances set out 
                 in sections (1) through (6) of said Section 
                 25-2(a).
            
       	    	 SECTION 2.  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance 
       shall take effect two (2) weeks from and after its passage as 
       provided by law.
       
       PASSED on Third and Final
       Reading July 9, 1991.	     _/s/________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	         CHAIRPERSON
       
       	    	      	   	     APPROVED:_______ DISAPPROVED:_______
       
       	    	      	   	     DATE:_________________ ______, 1991.
       
       
       	    	      	   	     _/s/________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	             MAYOR
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