Legal Documents of Sweetwater

As used in this chapter, the following words have the following meanings:

1. "Curfew hours" means the hours of 12:30 A.M. through 6:00 A.M. each day.
2. "Emergency" means unforeseen circumstances, and the resulting condition or status, requiring immediate action to safeguard life, limb, or property. The word includes, but is not limited to, fires, natural disasters, automobile accidents, or other similar circumstances.
3. "Establishment" means any privately-owned business place within the city operated for a profit and to which the public is invited, including, but not limited to, any place of amusement or entertainment. The word "operator" with respect to an establishment means any person, firm, association, partnership (including its members or partners), and any corporation (including its officers) conducting or managing the establishment.
4. "Minor" means any person under eighteen (18) years of age who has not been emancipated under Tennessee Code Annotated, § 29-31-101, et seq.
5. "Parent" means:
   1. A person who is a minor's biological or adoptive parent and who has legal custody of the minor, including either parent if custody is shared under a court order or agreement;
   2. A person who is the biological or adoptive parent with whom a minor regularly resides;
   3. A person judicially appointed as the legal guardian of a minor; and/or
   4. A person eighteen (18) years of age or older standing in loco parentis (as indicated by authorization by a parent as defined in this definition for the person to assume the care or physical custody of the minor, or as indicated by any other circumstances).
6. "Person" means an individual and not a legal entity.
7. "Public place" means any place to which the public or a substantial portion of the public has access, including, but not limited to: streets, sidewalks, alleys, parks, and the common areas of schools, hospitals, apartment houses or buildings, office buildings, transportation facilities, and shops.
8. "Remain" means
   1. To linger or stay at or upon a place or
   2. To fail to leave a place when requested to do so by a law enforcement officer or by the owner, operator, or other person in control of that place.
9. "Temporary care facility" means a non-locked, non-restrictive shelter at which a minor may wait, under visual supervision, to be retrieved by a parent. A minor waiting in a temporary care facility may not be handcuffed or secured by handcuffs or otherwise to any stationary object.