§ 14-20. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Civil emergency means:

(1)

A riot or unlawful assembly characterized by the use of actual force or violence or any threat to use force if accompanied by the immediate power to execute such force by three or more persons acting together without authority of law; or

(2)

Any natural disaster or manmade calamity including flood, conflagration, cyclone, tornado, earthquake or explosion within the corporate town limits resulting in the death or injury of persons or the destruction of property to such an extent that extraordinary measures must be taken to protect the public health, safety and welfare.

Curfew means a prohibition against any person walking, running, loitering, standing or motoring upon any alley, street, highway, public property or vacant premises within the corporate town limits during the hours in which a curfew has been imposed, excepting persons officially designated to duty with reference to said civil emergency.

(Code 1979, § 18-171; Code 2005, § 133.25; Ord. No. 534, § 1, 9-6-1972)