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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 34-8 Enforcement generally.">
  <section prefix="§" num="34-8" heading="Enforcement generally.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Identification.">If a police officer has reason to believe that a minor is 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;, the police officer shall seek to obtain from the minor:<para num="(1)">the minor’s name, address, school or other valid identification, and age; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">the name of the minor’s parent or parents.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Daytime curfew.">
      <para num="(1)">For a minor believed to be in violation of § 34-4 {“Prohibited conduct of minors – Daytime curfew”}, the minor shall be taken, as appropriate, to:<para num="(i)">the minor’s school;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">a Youth Connection Center; or</para>
        <para num="(iii)">the minor’s home.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">If the minor is taken to school or to a Youth Connection Center, the school or center, as the case may be, shall:<para num="(i)">notify a parent about the violation of this subtitle; and</para>
        <para num="(ii)">take appropriate measures to reduce the probability that the minor will commit a subsequent violation of this subtitle.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Nighttime curfew.">
      <para num="(1)">For a minor believed to be in violation of § 34-3 {“Prohibited conduct of minors – Nighttime curfew”}, the minor shall be taken, as appropriate, to:<para num="(i)">the minor’s home; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">a Youth Connection Center.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)">If the minor is taken to a Youth Connection Center, the facility shall:<para num="(i)">notify a parent or an adult brother, sister, aunt, uncle, or grandparent to come and take charge of the minor;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">notify a parent about the violation of this subtitle; and</para>
        <para num="(iii)">take appropriate measures to reduce the probability that the minor will commit a subsequent violation of this subtitle.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(3)">If the minor is taken to a Youth Connection Center and, by 6 a.m. of the following morning, no parent or adult brother, sister, aunt, uncle, or grandparent can be located or none come and take charge of the minor, the minor shall be, as appropriate:<para num="(i)">taken to the minor’s home;</para>
        <para num="(ii)">referred to or placed in the custody of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services; or</para>
        <para num="(iii)">released from the Youth Connection Center.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Maximum period of detention.">In no event may a minor be detained for more than 24 hours if the minor is charged solely with a violation of this subtitle.</para>
    <para num="(e)" heading="Notices.">Notice is presumed to be received by a parent if deposited in a depository for mailing United States Mail, properly addressed and with first-class postage paid.  The mailing may be shown by the records of the sending agency made in the regular course of its business.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 19, §96(a)(intro), (a)(1)(i), (a)(2), (b)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 75-1046</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 77-316</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 80-207</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 94-418</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. 14-231</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
