17-Deliberate and possibly act on an Ordinance establishing zones excluding sex offenders from residing near premises where children gather

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children. It is the intent of this article to serve the city's compelling interest to promote, protect and improve the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the city by creating areas around locations where children regularly congregate in concentrated numbers wherein certain registered sex offenders and sexual predators are prohibited from establishing temporary or permanent residency. Sec. 21-201. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms, words and the derivations thereof shall have the meaning given herein: Child means any person under the age of seventeen (17). Child-care facility means a facility licensed, certified, or registered by the Texas Department of Human Resources to provide 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 twenty-four-hour day, whether or not the facility is operated for profit or charges for the services it offers. Child-care institution means a child-care facility that provides for more than twelve (12) children twenty-four (24) hours a day, including facilities known as children's homes, halfway houses, residential treatment centers, emergency shelters, and therapeutic camps. Child safety zone means public parks or playgrounds, private and public schools, public library, public swimming pools, child-care facility, child-care institution, day-care center, public or private youth soccer or baseball field, crisis center or shelter, skate park, public or private youth center, and offices for child protective services. Database means the Texas Department of Public Safety's sex offender database or the sex offender registration files maintained by the sex offender registration officer of the city police department. Day-care Center means a child care facility that provides care at a location other than the residence of the director, owner, or operator of the child-care facility for seven (7) or more children under fourteen (14) years of age for less than twenty- four (24) hours a day, but at least two (2) hours a day, three (3) or more days a week. Park or 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. Page 2 of 5 124