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Show Curfew For Panguitch PANGUITCH A mid-July decision by the Panguitch City Council to strictly enforce its curfew cur-few law is helping to curb late-night late-night disorder in the community says police chief Martin Nay. They are asking parents to remember the popular old slogan, "It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your kids are?" On July 14, the city council listened lis-tened to a number of complaints, and problems were aired about youth in and around town late at night and in the very early morning hours! Officer Kevin Moore told the council the police had received numerous nu-merous complaints from business owners and tourists that youth in town were responsible for excessive exces-sive noise, foul and abusive language, lan-guage, honking vehicle horns, erratic er-ratic driving, and leaning out of car windows and pickup beds. Members of the local motel and restaurant association met on July 18 with Mayor Maloy Dodds and Chief Martin Nay to review their options and discussed how to get parents involved in the solution. They agreed that where youth were recognized by the complainant, parents should be called directly. The business owners also recommended recom-mended strict enforcement of the curfew law on the city's books since 1979. Violators of the law can be charged with disorderly conduct or criminal mischief. Chief Nay said that recent violations had resulted in youth being arrested. He said that community service hours were often imposed as sentences as opposed op-posed to detention, with the young people required to pick up trash along the city's streets. See Panguitch Page 6 A Panguitch Curfew From Page 1 Chief Nay said that in some cases, videos of the violators had Deen supplied, showing their unlawful un-lawful actions. In one case later in the month, police were called out at 3:30 a.m. for two vehicles with four juveniles. Parents were contacted con-tacted who didn't know their young people had left the house. Alternative positive activities were suggested for young people, such as late night basketball, games or swimming. The city's ordinance requires youth under the age of 18 to be off the streets, alleys, public places and vacant lots between midnight and 6 a.m., with the same restriction restric-tion applying for youth under 16 between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., Sunday through Thursday. Certain exceptions excep-tions are made for church, civic and school activities that may require later hours, all spelled out in the ordinance. |
