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.

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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.