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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE ADDING A NEVI SECTION TO THE ORDINANCE
CODE OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME TO BE KNOWN AS
SECTION NO. 127-?, REGULATING 'THE PRESENCE OF MINORS
UNDER THE AGE O18 YEARS IN PUBLIC STREETS AND
OTHER.PLACES BE'I"NEEN THE HOURS OF 10 o'CLOCK P.M.
AND DAYLIGHT OF THE 11'OLLO'J1,TG DAY, DEFINING DUTIES
OF PARENTS AND O'THLR PERSONS IN CARE OF MINORS IN
RELATIONSHIP THERETO, FIXING THEIR RESPONSIBILITY
AND PROVIDING FOR PENALTY OF VIOLATION THEREOF
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The City Council of the City of Burlingame does or-
dain as follows:
Section 1. The Ordinance Code of the City of
Burlingame is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section
to be known as Section 1277 which shall read as follows:
Section 127$, - REGULATING CONDUCT OF MINORS IN
/ PUBLIC STREETS AND PLACES
(a) It shall be unlawful for any minor under the age of
18 years to loiter, idle, stroll, or play in any public street,
public square, park, or any public place between the hours of
10 o'clock P. M. and daylight of the following day; provided,
however, that the provisions of this section do not apply to a
minor accompanied by his or her parent, guardian or other adult
person having the care and custody of the minor, or where the
minor is upon an emergency errand or legitimate business di-
rected by his or her parent, guardian, or other adult person
having the care and custody of the minor.
Any person assisting, aiding, abetting, permitting
or encouraging any minor under the age of le years to violate i,
any of the provisions of this code is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) Each owner, agent, manager, or keeper of a hotel,
boarding house, lodging house, tenement house, apartment house
or motor court shall immediately report to the office of the
Chief of Police of the jity, the presence therein of any and all
minors who he or she has reason to believe to be under the age
of 18 years; providing, however, that the provisions of this
paragraph do not apply when the minor or minors is or are accom-
panied by a parent, guardian, or other adult person having the
care and custody of such minor or minors. In making such report
to the office of the chief of Police the name, age, last known
place of abode, the names and residences of the parents, guar-
dians or other custodians of such minor or minors, shall be
stated, and shall include such other or further information as
can be ascertained from said minor or minors or otherwise.
(c) It shall be unlawful within the City for any proprietor
keeper, clerk or any other person, having charge or control of
any cafe, tavern, restaurant, bar, eating place or public dance
hall to permit any person under the age of 18 years to remain in
said public place herein enumerated between the hours of 10
o'clock P. M. and daylight immediately following; provided, that
the provisions of this paragraph do not apply to a minor or
minors accompaned by his or her parent, guardian, or other adult
person having the care and custody of the minor.
(d) Any minor who shall violate any of the provisions of
this Ordinance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to
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the provisions of Chapter 2, -Division 2, of the v�elfare and
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institutions Code of the State of California.
This Ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure
necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace and
safety, which makes it imperative that this Ordinance shall be-
come effective forthwith; the facts constituting such emergency
are; that the current war conditions have so affected the affairs
in the City of Burlingame that it is necessary to preserve the
public peace, safety, morals and welfare by restricting the
presence of minors in the streets and other public places, and
particularly for the purpose of curtailing juvenile delinquency.
Section 2. This Ordinance shall be published once
according to law in the Burlingame Advance -Star, a newspaper of
general circulation printed and published in the said City and
eforth shall be in full force and effect.
The foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a regular
meeting of the City Council held on July 19, 1943, and was
adopted by the said City Council on August 2, 1943, by the
following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL4,!EN : BURROWS - COLQMAN - DAHL - ROTH
NOES: COUNCIT171 T : NONE
ABSENT COUNCIL4rTEN: HUNT
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK