§ 14-126. Defense from school-hour curfew violation.

With respect to the hours between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday only, it is a defense that the public or private school which the minor attends was not in session, that the minor is being home schooled in accordance with Arkansas law and a recess has been declared by the home school teacher, that the minor is a high school graduate or has an equivalent certification, or that the minor is on an excused absence from his or her place of schooling, provided that a disciplinary suspension or expulsion is not deemed an excused absence for the purposes of this article.

(Ord. No. 5463, § 6, 10-21-91; Ord. No. 6271, § 1, 2-3-09)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 6271, § 1, adopted Feb. 3, 2009, changed the title of section 14-126 from "Penalties" to read as herein set out.