The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
CITY
The City of Harrington, Delaware, with administrative offices
at 106 Dorman Street, Harrington, Delaware.
EMERGENCY
An unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting
state that calls for immediate action. The term includes, but is not
limited to, a fire, natural disaster, automobile accident, or any
situation requiring immediate action to prevent serious bodily injury
or loss of life.
ESTABLISHMENT
Any privately owned place of business operated for a profit
to which the public is invited, including, but not limited to, any
place of amusement or entertainment.
JUVENILE or MINOR
Any unemancipated person under the age of 17 or, in equivalent
phrasing often herein employed, any person 16 or fewer years of age.
OPERATOR
Any individual, firm, association, partnership, or corporation
operating, managing, or conducting any establishment. The term includes
the members or partners of an association or partnership and the officers
of a corporation.
PARENT
Any person having legal custody of a juvenile:
(1)
As a natural or adoptive parent.
(3)
As a person who stands in loco parentis.
(4)
As a person to whom legal custody has been given by court order.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any place to which the public or a substantial group of the
public has access and includes, but is not limited to, streets, common
areas of schools, shopping centers, parking lots, parks, playgrounds,
transportation facilities, theaters, restaurants, shops, bowling alleys,
taverns, cafes, arcades, and similar areas that are open to the use
of the public. As a type of public place, a street is a way or place,
of whatever nature, open to the use of the public as a matter of right
for purposes of vehicular travel or, in the case of a sidewalk thereof,
for pedestrian travel. "Street" includes that legal right-of-way,
including, but not limited to, the cartway of traffic lanes, the curb,
the sidewalks, whether paved or unpaved, and any grass plots or other
grounds found within the legal right-of-way of a street.
REMAIN
To stay behind, to tarry, and to stay unnecessarily in a
public place, including the congregating of groups (or of interacting
minors) totaling four or more persons in which any juvenile involved
would not be using the streets for ordinary or serious purposes such
as mere passage or going home, or to fail to leave the premises of
an establishment when requested to do so by a police officer or the
operator of an establishment. To implement this provision with additional
precision and precaution, numerous exceptions are expressly defined
in this chapter. More exceptions become available with a juvenile's
increasing years and advancing maturity as appropriate in the interest
of reasonable regulation.
TIME OF NIGHT
Based upon the prevailing standard of time, whether Eastern
standard time or Eastern daylight saving time, generally observed
at that hour by the public in the City, prima facie, the time then
observed in the City administrative offices and police station.
YEARS OF AGE
Continues from one birthday, such as the 16th, to (but not
including the day of) the next, such as the 17th birthday, making
it clear that 16 or fewer years of age is herein treated as equivalent
to the phrase "under 17 years of age." Similarly, for example, 11
or fewer years of age means "under 12 years of age."