The D.C. Council voted Tuesday to reinstate a 90-day youth curfew, passing an emergency bill after Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) and Police Chief Pamela A. Smith blamed lawmakers for a rise in chaotic large gatherings of young people.

The curfew law allows the police chief and mayor to declare temporary curfew zones where people age 17 and younger will be barred from gathering in groups of more than eight after 8 p.m. It also institutes a curfew for children age 17 and younger that lasts from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily.

The youth curfew that has been D.C. law for decades currently begins at 11 p.m. on weekdays and midnight on weekends, and applies to children younger than 17.

The emergency curfew, passed by a vote of 9 to 4, comes after several large gatherings involving young people in D.C.

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