§ 15:1. Definitions.

The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them:

Civil emergency means:

(1)

A riot or unlawful assembly characterized by the use of actual force or violence or any threat to use force, accompanied by immediate power to execute by three (3) or more persons acting together without authority of law; or

(2)

Any natural disaster or man-made calamity, including flood, conflagration, cyclone, tornado, earthquake, or explosion, within the city-parish, resulting in 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.

Curfew means a prohibition against any person walking, running, loitering, standing or motoring upon any alley, street, highway or public property or vacant premises, or otherwise moving about, within the city-parish, excepting persons officially designated to duty with reference to the civil emergency, and physicians, nurses, and ambulance operators performing medical services.

(City Code 1951, Title 15, § 1; Parish Code 1962, Title 16, § 1)