MEMORANDUM

TO: Mayor and Aldermen February 27, 1975

‘FROM: R.A. Freeman
City Clerk

Re: . Curfew

Reproduced below is the Section of the Municipal Act relating to a
curfew that may be imposed by the Municipal Council and Mayor Campbell
has asked that this subject be placed on the Agenda in order that the
Council may give consideration thereto.

By-law to pre-
vent children
being on the
tirects after
nightfall.

Ao pe

City Clerk

869. (1) The Council may by by-law provide for the regulation of
the time or times during each day during which children shall not be on
the streets without proper guardianship, and the age, or apparent age, of _
boys and girls respectively under which they shall be required to be in
their homes at the hour appointed; and such children so required to be
in their homes or off the streets shall not be upon the public streets,
except under proper control or guardianship or for some unavoidable
cause. .

(2) Any child so found as aforesaid after the time appointed shall
be liable to be warmed by any constable or peace officer to go home;
and if after such warning the child is found loitering on the ‘Streets, such
child may be taken by such constable to its home.

(3) Any parent or guardian who permits his child or ward habitually
to contravene a by-law adopted under .this section commits an offence
and is Jiable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the sum of -
five dollars. 1957, ¢. 42,s. 874; 1958, c. 32, s. 339.