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a.	All minor children are prohibited to roam around, loiter, wander, stay or meander in all public places during curfew hours – 10:00 P.M. every night up to 5:00 A.M. the next morning – whether singly or in groups without lawful purpose or justifiable reason.
b.	It shall be unlawful for a parent or guardian of a minor to knowingly permit, or by insufficient control allow, the minor to remain in any public place within the municipality during curfew hours.

 

SECTION 4. Exceptions. The activities prohibited by Section 3 hereof shall not be unlawful in the following circumstances:

a.	When the minor is accompanied by the minor's parent or guardian;
b.	Those on their way to or from a party, graduation ceremony, religious activities, and/or other extra-curricular activities of their school or organization wherein their attendance are required or otherwise indispensable, or when such minors are out and unable to go home early due to circumstances beyond their control as verified by the proper authorities concerned;
c.	When the minor is riding on a motor vehicle or on travel accompanied by parents or guardians is in no violation of this ordinance;
d.	When the minor is engaged in an authorized employment activity, or going to or returning home from the same place or employment activity, without any detour or stop;
e.	When the minor is involved in an emergency;
f.	When the minor is on the sidewalk abutting the minor's residence or abutting the residence of a next-door neighbor if the neighbor does not complain to the authorities about the minor's presence;
g.	When the minor is out of his/her residence attending an official school, religious, recreational, educational, social community or other organized activity sponsored by the municipality, barangay, school or other similar private civic/religious organization/group that supervises the activity or when the minor is going to or returning home from, without any detour or stop, such activity;
h.	When the minor can present papers certifying that he/she is a student and was dismissed from his/her class/es late in the evening or that he/she is a working student;
i.	When the minor is engaged in a lawful pursuit of livelihood or providing assistance in any lawful activity;
j.	When the minor is on an errand to save life or property like calling for the services of a physician, midwife, priest, police officers, fireman and other similar circumstances;
k.	When the minor is attending to, or in experience of, an emergency situation such as conflagration, earthquake, hospitalization, road accident, law enforcers encounter, and similar incidents;
l.	When the minor can show proof or explain to the satisfaction of the apprehending officer that he/she has just arrived from travel and is on his/her way home and similar circumstances;