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9.52.025 – Parental Authority

The parent or legal guardian of an unemancipated minor (a person under the age of eighteen) residing with such parent or legal guardian shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to have failed to exercise proper parental responsibility and said minor shall be deemed to have committed a violation of the curfew described in Section 9.52.010 above, with the knowledge and permission of the parent or guardian in violation of this section upon the occurrence of the events described in Subparagraphs A., B., and C. below:

  1. An unemancipated minor residing with said parent or legal guardian shall either be adjudicated to be in violation of any ordinance, law or statute prohibiting willful and malicious acts causing injury to a person or property, or shall have incurred non-judicial sanctions from another official agency resulting from an admission of guilt of violation of any ordinance, law or statute prohibiting willful and malicious acts causing injury to a person or property; and
  2. Said parent or legal guardian shall have received a written notice thereof, either by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, or by personal service, with a certificate of personal service returned, from the Police Department of the city following said adjudication or non-judicial sanctions; and
  3. If at any time within one (1) year following receipt of the notice set forth in B. above, said minor is either adjudicated to be in violation of any ordinance, law, or statute as described in A. above, or shall have incurred non-judicial sanctions from another official agency resulting from an admission of guilt of violation of any ordinance, law or statute as described in A above.
(1995-M-1: § 1)