9.06.040 Contributing to a Child’s Misconduct or Deprivation.
A. Contributing to a child’s misconduct or deprivation is:
1. Knowingly causing or encouraging a child under eighteen (18) years of age to become or remain a child in need of care as defined by the Kansas code for care of children; or
2. Knowingly causing or encouraging a child under eighteen (18) years of age to commit a traffic infraction or an act which, if committed by an adult, would be a misdemeanor or public offense, or to violate the provisions of K.S.A. 41-727 or subsection (j) of K.S.A. 74-8810 and amendments thereto; or
3. Failure to reveal, upon inquiry by a uniformed or properly identified law enforcement officer engaged in the performance of such officer’s duty, any information one has regarding a runaway, with intent to aid the runaway in avoiding detection or apprehension; or
4. Knowingly causing or encouraging a child to violate the terms or conditions of the child’s probation or conditional release pursuant to subsection (a) (1) of K.S.A. 38-2361, and amendments thereto. (K.S.A. 21-5603 and amendments thereto).
B. A person may be found guilty of contributing to a child’s misconduct or deprivation even though no prosecution of the child whose misconduct or deprivation the defendant caused or encouraged has been commenced in municipal or district court.
C. Contributing to a child’s misconduct or deprivation is a Class A Public Offense. (Ord. 15-66 § 11, 2015; Ord. 14-63 § 4, 2014; Ord. 03-90 § 3, 2003; Ord. 99-24 § 9, 1999; Ord. 93-09 § 12, 1993; Ord. 83-75 § 2, 1983.)