No owner or employee of a business establishment shall permit a minor under the age of 16, having reasonable grounds to believe that such minor is a truant or unlawfully absent from school, to loiter on the premises of such business establishment during those hours when school is in session. Any person violating the provisions of this section may be fined not less than $25 nor more than $300, or may be imprisoned for not less than 10 days or longer than 30 days.
D.C. Code § 32-221
Loitering around business establishments prohibited during school hours; penalty
May 29, 1928, 45 Stat. 1006, ch. 908, § 24; renumbered as § 21 and amended June 15, 1976, D.C
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