Section 2. Definitions.

For the purpose of this ordinance, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

          City. The City of Rising Star, Texas.

          Child. Any person under the age of 17.

          Child Care Facility or Institution. An establishment subject to regulation by licensing which provides assessment, care, training, education, custody, treatment, or supervision for a child who is not related by blood, marriage, or adoption to the owner or operator of the facility, for all or part of the 24hour day, whether or not the establishment operates for profit or charges for its services. A child-care facility includes the people,

administration, governing body, activities on or off the premises, operations, buildings, grounds, equipment, furnishings, and materials. A child-care facility does not include child placing agencies, listed family homes, or employer-based child care. (TAC Title 40, Part 19, Ch. 745, Sub. A, Div. 3, Rule 745.2 I)

          Child Safety Zone. – is defined as but not limited to.

                    A.  Public parks;

                    B.  private and public schools;

                    C.  Public Libraries;

                    D.  Amusement arcade or video arcades;

                    E.  Indoor and outdoor amusement centers or amu ement parks, or carnivals, circuses, fairs or fair grounds;

                    F.  Public commercial and semi-private swimming pools;

                    G.  Child care facility or child care institution;

                    H.  Public or private youth soccer, football or baseball fields;

                    I.  Crisis center or shelter;

                    J.  Skate park or rink;

                    K.  Movie theater;

                    L.  Bowling Alley;

                    M.  Scouting facilities;

                    N.  Any public or private group, location or activity that regularly provides athletic, civic or cultural activities that includes as participants or

                          recipient’s persons who are 17 year of age or younger, including but not limited to Trick or Treating, parades and Vacation Bible Schools;

                          P. Offices for Child Protective

          Database. The Texas Department of Public Safety’s Sex Offender Database and/or the Sex Offender registration files maintained by the Rising Star Police Department.

          Loitering. Standing, sitting idly. whether or not the person is in a vehicle. or remaining in

or around an area.

          Park and Playground means any land. including improvements to the land that is administered, operated or managed by the City for the use of the general public as a recreational area, including, without limitation:

                    1.  Any land, including improvements to the land, that is administered, operated or managed by the City for use solely

                        or primarily for children’s recreation;

                    2.  City recreation areas including, but not limited to, conservation area, jogging trail, hiking trail, bicycle trail, recreation center, waterpark,

                         swimming pool, football field, soccer field, baseball field or softball field.

          Permanent Residence. A place where the person abides, lodges or resides for 14 or more consecutive days.

          Places where children regularly’ congregate. Has the san1e definition as Child Safety Zone.

          Public Way. Any place to which the public, or substantial group of the public, has access and includes, but is not limited to, streets, shopping centers, parking lots. transportation facilities, restaurants, shops and similar areas that are open to the use of the public. 

          School. A private or public pre-school. private or public elementary school or private or public secondary school.

          Sex Offender. An individual who has been convicted of or placed on defen-ed adjudication for a sexual offense involving a person under 17 years of age for which the individual is required to register as a sex offender under Chapter 62, Texas Code of Criminal Procedure.

          Temporary Residence. A place where a person abides, lodges or reside for a period of 14 or more days in the aggregate, during any calendar year and which is not the person’s pem1anent address, or a place where the per on routinely abides, lodges or resides for a period of 4 or more consecutive or nonconsecutive days in any month and which i not the person’s permanent address.