Athens City Code

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

Civil emergency means:

1. (1) A riot or unlawful assembly characterized by the use of actual force or violence or a threat to use force, if accompanied by the immediate power to execute, by three or more persons acting together without authority of law.
2. (2) Any natural disaster or man-made calamity, including, but not limited to, flood, conflagration, cyclone, tornado, earthquake, or explosion within the geographic 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.
3. (3) The destruction of property or the death or injury of persons brought about by the deliberate acts of one or more persons acting either alone or in concert with others when such acts are a threat to the peace of the general public or any segment thereof.

Curfew means a prohibition against any person walking, running, loitering, standing, or motoring upon any alley, street, highway, public property, or vacant premises within the corporate limits of the city, except persons officially designated to duty with reference to the civil emergency or those lawfully on the streets as defined hereinafter.

(Code 1972, § 1-1301; Code 1995, § 20-401)