§ 34-32. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the contexts clearly indicate a different meaning:

Curfew means a prohibition against any person or persons walking, running, loitering, standing or motoring upon any alley, street, highway, public property or vacant premises within the corporate limits of the city, except the persons officially designated to perform duties with reference to the emergency.

Emergency means a riot or unlawful assembly characterized by the use of actual force or violence or any threat to use force if accompanied by immediate power to execute by three or more persons acting together without the authority of law. Any natural disaster or manmade calamity, including flood, conflagration, cyclone, tornado, hurricane, earthquake or explosion, within the corporate limits of the city resulting in the death or injury of persons or the destruction of property to such an extent that extraordinary measures must be taken to protect the public health, safety and welfare, or threat thereof. This definition of emergency shall be supplemental to the definition of emergency contained in F.S. ch. 252.

Unlawful assembly means the gathering of three or more persons together to commit a breach of the peace, or to do any other unlawful act.

The definitions provided in F.S. § 252.34, to the extent that they are applicable and not in conflict herewith, are incorporated herein.

(Ord. No. 2006-07, § 1, 11-18-2005)