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custody of such person, and upon the failure of such person to give or furnish any or all of said information any such officer is hereby authorized and empowered to take such person into custody and take him or her to his or her home, or communicate with his or her parents, ~uardian or other adult person having the care and custody of such person and demand the information hereinabove required to be given. If such person so taken into custody is a person coming within the provisions of thi~ ordinance, any such law enforcement officer is hereby apthorized and empowered to demand of the parents, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of such minor, that they take such minor to his or her home. The failure of any such parent, guardian or other adult person having the care and cutodyof such minor to furnish the information here- inabove required or to take such minor home when so demanded by any such law enforce- ment officer is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor and shall be punished as hereinaftex provided. Further provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to a parent, guardian or other adult person where the minor is legally married, but said minor, nevertheless, shall remain subject to the provisions of this section. Section A. It shall be unlawful for any parent, guardian or other adult per- son having the care and custody of any minor under the age of fourteen years to leave said minor at home or any other place without the supervision of a competent and respon- sible person between the hours of 10 P.M., and 6 A.M. of the following day. Section 8. Provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to any minor in the military service of the United States. Section 6. For the purpose of this ordinance, any person under'the age of 18 years shall be deemed a minor irrespective of the marital status of said person. Section 7. PENALTIES. Any minor violating any of the provisions of Section 1 hereof shall be remanded to ~he Juvenile Court. Any parent, guardian or other adult person having the care and custody of a minor coming within the provisions of this ordinance who violates any of the provisions hereof shall be fined not more than $100.00 or confined in the county Jail for not more than 50 days or punished by both such fine and imprisonment for each offense. Section 8. Ail existing ordinances of the City of Santa Ana are hereby repealed insofar as they may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance. Section 9. SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS. It is the intention of the City Council that each separate provision of this Ordinance shall be deemed independent of all other provisions herein, and it is further the intention of the City Council that if any provisions of this Ordinance be declared invalid, all other provisions thereof shall remain valid and enforceable. Section 10. The O~ty Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published in three consecutive issues of the SANTA ANA REGISTER, a newspaper printed,published and circulated in the City of Santa Aha, and hereby designated for that purpose. This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days from and after its adoption. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Santa Ana at its regular meeting held on the 18th day of September, 1944. Asa Hoffma~ ATTEST: Mayor Erma Keeler City C~ rk. (SEAL)