2 rules for unincorporated Orange County, North Carolina.
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Chapel Hill keeps a long-standing juvenile curfew: no minor under 16 may loaf or idle on a town street or in a business after 9:00 p.m. unless with an adult family member. Carrboro, Hillsborough, and unincorporated Orange County have no general nightly juvenile curfew.
Chapel Hill, NC, Code of Ordinances, Sec. 11-4 (Curfew for persons under sixteen)
It shall be unlawful for any minor under sixteen (16) to loaf and idle on any street in the town or in any business house thereon after nine o'clock at night, unless attended by some adult member of said minor's family.
Orange County and its town parks close at posted hours, most from dawn to dusk, with lit athletic facilities running later for scheduled use. Staying after closing is second-degree trespass under N.C.G.S. 14-159.13 once you have been notified or the park is posted.
N.C.G.S. 14-159.13(a)
A person commits the offense of second degree trespass if, without authorization, the person enters or remains on any of the following: (1) On premises of another after the person has been notified not to enter or remain there by the owner, by a person in charge of the premises, by a lawful occupant, or by another authorized person. (2) On premises that are posted, in a manner reasonably likely...
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