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<br />Section 10-701. Definitions. <br /> <br />The following words, terms, and phrases, when used in this Chapter, shall have the <br />meanings ascribed to them in this Section, except where the context clearly indicates a <br />different meaning: <br /> <br />Child or Children means any person under the age of eighteen (18) years of age. <br /> <br />Children's facility means any School, Day Care Center, or Park (excluding Sasscer <br />Park), as defined in this section, the Discovery Science Center located at 2500 N. Main <br />Street, the Bowers Kidseum located at the corner of 18th Street and Main Street, the <br />McFadden Learning Center located at 2627 W. McFadden, and the Newhope Branch <br />Library located at 122 N. Newhope Street. <br /> <br />Day care center means any child day care facility other than a family day care home, <br />and includes infant centers, preschools, extended-day care facilities and school-age <br />child care centers, as defined in Section 1596.76 of the California Health and Safety <br />Code and licensed pursuant to the provisions of the California Child Day Care Facilities <br />Act (Health & Safety Code ~~ 1596.70 et seq.). <br /> <br />Loitering means to delay or linger within three hundred feet (300') of a Children's facility <br />and for the purpose of committing a crime as opportunity may be discovered. <br /> <br />Park means any public park or recreation or playground area or building or facility <br />thereon within the City of Santa Ana, owned and maintained by the city as a public park <br />or recreation or playground area. <br /> <br />School as used in this article shall mean any institution of learning for minors, whether <br />public or private, offering instruction in those courses of study required by the California <br />Education Code and maintained pursuant to standards set by the state board of <br />education. This definition includes a nursery school, kindergarten, elementary school, <br />middle or junior high school, senior high school, or any special institution of education, <br />but it does not include a vocational or professional institution of higher education, <br />including a community or junior college, college, or university. <br /> <br />Sex Offender means a person who has been required to register with a governmental <br />entity as a sex offender when the underlying offense was a crime involving a child. <br /> <br />Section 10-702. Prohibitions. <br /> <br />A Sex Offender is prohibited from being on or within three hundred feet (300') of a <br />Children's Facility: <br /> <br />a) while there for the apparent purpose of observing a Child or Children, <br />or <br /> <br />Ordinance No. NS-2712 <br />Page 3 of 5 <br />