Chapter 9.15
OFFENSES AFFECTING MINORS
Sections:
9.15.010 Sales to minors prohibited.
9.15.020 Sale of intoxicating liquor to minors.
9.15.030 Use of liquor by minor.
9.15.050 Parental responsibility.
9.15.010 Sales to minors prohibited.
No person shall sell, barter, trade, give or in any manner furnish to any minor under the age of 18 years, for his own consumption, any tobacco, cigars or cigarettes in any form, or any compound in which tobacco forms a component. [Code 2000 § 6.255.]
9.15.020 Sale of intoxicating liquor to minors.
No person shall sell, barter, trade, give or in any manner furnish to any person under the age of 21 any alcoholic liquor. [Code 2000 § 6.260.]
9.15.030 Use of liquor by minor.
No person under the age of 21 shall purchase, acquire, consume or have in his possession alcoholic liquor. [Code 2000 § 6.265.]
9.15.040 Curfew.
(A) No minor under the age of 18 years shall be in or upon any street, highway, park, alley or other public place between the hours specified herein, unless the minor is accompanied by a parent, guardian or other person 21 years of age or over and authorized by the parent or by law to have care and custody of the minor, or unless the minor is then engaged in an employment or night school which requires his presence in public places during the hours specified in this section.
(B) For the purpose of this section, the applicable hours shall be:
(1) As to children under 14 years who have not begun high school, between 9:15 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. of the following morning, except that during the months of June, July and August, the hours shall be between 10:15 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. on the following morning;
(2) As to children 14 years of age or over or who have begun high school, the hours shall be between 10:15 p.m., Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday and 6:00 a.m. of the following morning and between 12:00 midnight on Friday or Saturday, or any day prior to a legal holiday when no school is scheduled for said legal holiday, and 6:00 a.m. of the following morning, except that during the months of June, July and August, the hours shall be between 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m. of the following morning.
(C) Any child under the age of 18 years employed in selling, delivering or wrapping newspapers shall obtain from the newspaper employer, and the employer shall issue to the child employed, a card showing such employment within the protection of the preceding provision. [Code 2000 § 6.270.]
9.15.050 Parental responsibility.
It shall be unlawful for any parent or guardian, or the person having the care or custody of any child under the age of 18 years, to permit, or by inefficient control to allow, such child to be in or remain in or upon any street, alley, park or other public place between the hours set forth in CMC 9.15.040. Proof that the child was on any street, alley, park or other public place at a time prohibited shall, prima facie, be sufficient evidence to sustain a conviction of a violation of this section. [Code 2000 § 6.275.]
9.15.060 Custody of minor.
Any peace officer may take into temporary custody a child violating any of the provisions of CMC 9.15.040 and, for the first violation, shall as soon as practicable notify the child’s parent, guardian or other person responsible for the child of the violation and shall take or send the child home and release the child to the custody of his parent or other responsible person. In case any child under the age of 18 years shall again violate any of the provisions of CMC 9.15.040, the child may be apprehended and taken into temporary custody as a juvenile offender and delinquent and may be brought before the juvenile court of the court in which such child resides or is found. [Code 2000 § 6.280.]