(1) No person having custody or control of a minor child under 10 years of age shall, with criminal negligence, leave the child unattended in or at any place for such period of time as may be likely to endanger the health or welfare of such child.

(2) It shall be lawful and the duty of a policeman or other peace officer finding a child confined in violation of the terms of this section to enter the place and remove the child, using such force as is reasonably necessary to effect an entrance to such place where the child may be confined in order to remove the child.

(3) “Place” shall include but not be restricted to vehicles. (Ord. 210 § 56, 1977).