Smiley extends curfew indefinitely

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The Smiley city council passed an ordinance last Thursday to extend their declaration of public health emergency and new curfew indefinitely.

“We want to keep everyone safe,” Smiley Mayor Michael Mills said over the conference call. “We’re just going to extend it indefinitely until we hear otherwise from Gov. Abbott or the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention].”

The curfew, officially implemented on April 3, makes it so that all children 12 years and under shall not be allowed in any public area, outside of the property line where they reside at any time, unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Curfew times begin at 10 p.m. and end at 5 a.m.

“It is posted,” Mills said of the curfew. “It is on our website, it is on our new Facebook site and we put it in the water bills. I have been driving around at night, talking to people and telling people about it.”

“Everybody has been abiding by the rules,” he added. “We’ve been doing really well.”

Violations are considered a Class C misdemeanor and are punishable by no more than a $500 fine.

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