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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 34-1 Definitions.">
  <section prefix="§" num="34-1" heading="Definitions.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">In this subtitle the following terms have the meanings indicated.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Establishment.">“Establishment” means:<para num="(1)">any privately-owned place of business carried on for a profit; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">any place of amusement or entertainment to which the public is invited.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" />
    <para num="(d)" heading="Operator.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="In general.">“Operator” means any person operating, managing, or conducting any establishment.</para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Inclusions.">When used in any clause imposing a penalty, the term “operator”:<para num="(i)">as applied to a partnership or association, includes the partners or members thereof; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">as applied to a corporation, includes the officers thereof.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Parent.">“Parent” means:<para num="(1)">any natural parent of a minor;</para>
      <para num="(2)">a guardian; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">any person 18 years old or older who is legally responsible for the care and custody of a minor.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(f)" heading="Public place.">“Public place” means any public street, highway, road, alley, park, playground, wharf, dock, public building, or vacant lot.</para>
    <para num="(g)" heading="Remain.">“Remain” means to loiter, idle, wander, stroll, or play in or upon.</para>
    <para num="(h)" heading="Youth Connection Center.">“Youth Connection Center” means a place, as established or designated by the City, to which minors believed to be in violation of § 34-3 {“Prohibited conduct of minors – Nighttime curfew”} or &lt;cite data-path="|19|§34-4"&gt;§ 34-4 {“Prohibited conduct of minors – Daytime curfew”} of this subtitle&lt;/cite&gt; can be taken to determine an appropriate course of action.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 19, §92</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 75-1046</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 80-207</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 94-419</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 95-614</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 03-539</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 06-183</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 14-307</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord.22-125</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
