Baltimore City Council
File #: 08-0093    Version: 0 Name: Minors - Daytime Curfew
Type: Ordinance Status: Withdrawn
File created: 4/7/2008 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 1/12/2009
Enactment #:
Title: Minors - Daytime Curfew FOR the purpose of modifying the start of the daytime curfew for certain minors required to be in school; and generally relating to the related obligations of minors, of parents, guardians, etc., and of business establishments.
Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, President Young, Warren Branch, Bill Henry, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Agnes Welch, Sharon Green Middleton, Belinda Conaway, James B. Kraft, Robert Curran
Indexes: Daytime Curfew, Minors
Attachments: 1. 08-0093 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. School Comm. - 08-0093.pdf
EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.
 
      * WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
      THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
      INTRODUCTORY*      
 
      CITY OF BALTIMORE
      COUNCIL BILL           
 
                                                                                                                                                            
Introduced by:  Councilmember Clarke                                                                                             
 
 
      A BILL ENTITLED
 
AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Minors - Daytime Curfew
 
FOR the purpose of modifying the start of the daytime curfew for certain minors required to be in school; and generally relating to the related obligations of minors, of parents, guardians, etc., and of business establishments.
Body
BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
  Article 19 - Police Ordinances
  Section(s) 34-4(a), 34-5(b), and 34-6(b)
  Baltimore City Code
   (Edition 2000)
 
  SECTION 1.  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:
 
      Baltimore City Code
 
      Article 19.  Police Ordinances
 
      Subtitle 34.  Minors - Daytime and Nighttime Curfews
 
§ 344.  Prohibited conduct of minors - daytime curfew.
 
  (a) In general.
 
Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, no minor under the age of 16 may remain in or about any public place or any establishment between the hours of [9 a.m.] 7:30 A.M. and 2:30 p.m. on any day during which the minor is required to be in school.
 
 
§ 345.  Prohibited conduct of parents, guardians, etc.
 
  (b)  Daytime curfew.
 
It is unlawful for the parent of any minor under the age16 to knowingly permit or, by insufficient control, to allow that minor to be in or about any public place or any establishment between the hours of [9 a.m.] 7:30 A.M. and 2:30 p.m. on any day during which the minor is required to be in school.
 
§ 346.  Prohibited conduct of establishments.
 
  (b)  Daytime curfew.
 
No operator of an establishment or his agents or employees may knowingly permit any minor under the age of 16 to remain on the premises of that establishment between the hours of [9 a.m.] 7:30 A.M. and 2:30 p.m. on any school day, unless:
 
(1)      the minor has written proof from school authorities excusing his or her attendance at that particular time; or
 
(2)      the minor is accompanied by the minor's parent or by a person 21 years old or older.
 
  SECTION 2.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That the catchlines contained in this Ordinance are not law and may not be considered to have been enacted as a part of this or any prior Ordinance.
 
  SECTION 3.  AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, That this Ordinance takes effect on the 30th day after the date it is enacted.
 
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