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Parent means the mother, the father, or an adoptive parent, but does not include an individual whose parental rights have been terminated. Public place means any place to which the public or a substantial group of the public has access and includes, but is not limited to, streets, highways, and the common areas of schools, hospitals, apartment houses, office buildings, transport facilities and shops. Recklessly: A person acts recklessly, or is reckless, with respect to circumstances surrounding his conduct or the result of his conduct when he is aware of but consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that its disregard constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise under all the circumstances as viewed from the actor's standpoint. Remain means to walk, run, stand, drive, ride about, stay or be otherwise present. Street means a way or place, of whatever nature, open to the use of the public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular travel or, in the case of a sidewalk thereof, for pedestrian travel. The term 'street' includes the legal right- of-way, including, but not limited to, the traffic lanes, curb, sidewalk, whether paved or unpaved, and any grass plots or other grounds found within the legal right-of-way of a street. The term 'street' applies irrespectively of what the legal right-of-way is formally named or called, whether alley, avenue, court, road or otherwise. Time of night means the prevailing standard of time, whether Central Standard Time or Central Daylight Savings Time, generally observed at that hour by the public in Paris, prima facie the time then observed in the Paris Police Department's Communication Division. Year of age continues from one birthday, such as the sixteenth, to (but not including) the day of the next, such as the seventeenth birthday, making it clear that sixteen (16) or less years of age is herein treated as equivalent to the phrase 'under seventeen (17) years of age'. Sec. 21-54. Curfew (a) It shall be unlawful for any child sixteen (16) or less years of age (under seventeen (17)) to intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence be in or remain in or upon the streets, a public place or an establishment within the city limits of Paris during the period ending at 6:00 a.m. and beginning: (1)At 11:00 p.m. week nights (Sunday through Thursday nights); (2)At 12:00 a.m. weekends (Saturday and Sunday mornings); -4-