Chapter 9.48
PUBLIC PARKS
Sections:
9.48.020 Compliance to rules required.
9.48.040 Closure during emergency.
9.48.060 Parking adjacent to park.
9.48.090 Distribution or posting of handbills prohibited.
9.48.110 Littering prohibited.
9.48.120 Disorderly conduct—Prohibited acts.
9.48.130 Supervision of minors.
9.48.180 Penalty for violation.
9.48.010 Park defined.
For the purposes of this chapter, “park” means and includes all premises used by the city for park purposes or vacant lots owned by the city and under the control, management and direction of the city council. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7300)
9.48.020 Compliance to rules required.
It is unlawful for any person to disobey or violate any of the rules or regulations of the council, governing the use and enjoyment by the public of any park, or governing the use and enjoyment of any building, structure, equipment, apparatus or appliances thereto, which rules and regulations at the time are on file in the City Hall, the police department and at the recreation department office or posted in some conspicuous place in a park or on or near the building, structure, equipment, apparatus or appliances thereto. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7311)
9.48.030 Signs and notices.
It is unlawful for any person to disobey an instruction, sign or notice on file as provided for in Section 9.48.020 or posted by the council in any park or in any building, structure, construction or erection thereon for the control, management or direction of such park, building, structure, construction or erection. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7312)
9.48.040 Closure during emergency.
In any emergency, or when the city council determines that the public interest or public health or public morals or public safety demands such action, any park or any part or portion thereof may be closed against the public, and all persons may be excluded therefrom until such emergency or other reason upon which such determination of the council is based has ceased; and upon the cessation thereof, the park or portion thereof so closed shall be again reopened to the public by the city council if closed for reasons other than that of an emergency. If the park was closed because of an emergency it shall be reopened when the emergency has ceased to exist. The existence of an emergency shall be determined by the director of parks and recreation or by the chief of police depending upon the nature of such an emergency. The reopening of the parks shall be determined by the official who previously ordered the park closed. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7321)
9.48.050 Hours of operation.
It is unlawful for any person or any group of persons, other than employees of the city engaged in its care or policing, to be or remain in any park of this city between the hours of ten-thirty p.m. of any day and the hour of six a.m. of the following day. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7322)
9.48.060 Parking adjacent to park.
No person shall, between the hour of ten-thirty p.m. of any day and the hour of six a.m. of the following day, stop, park or leave standing any motor vehicle or other vehicle on that portion of any streets adjoining a park owned or operated by the city. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7331)
9.48.070 No parking signs.
The department of public works shall install and maintain at intervals not exceeding three hundred feet along all city parks suitable and legible signs bearing the words “No Parking between 10:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m.” (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7332)
9.48.080 Peddling prohibited.
It is unlawful for any person to bring, or cause to be brought into, for the purpose of sale or barter, or have for sale, or sell or exchange any goods, wares or merchandise or other thing in any park within this city, without having first obtained a permit, concession, license or lease to do so from the parks and recreation department. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7341)
9.48.090 Distribution or posting of handbills prohibited.
It is unlawful for any person to distribute, cause to be distributed, or suffer or allow or permit the distribution of any handbill, dodger, circular, booklet, card, pamphlet, sheet, or written or printed notice advertising any commodity, article, merchandise, business, activity, person or thing in or upon any park, or to post or affix, cause to be posted or affixed, or permit to be posted or affixed to any tree, shrub, plant, fence, building, structure, monument, wall, tablet, apparatus, pole, post, bench or any other physical object within any part of this city any handbill, dodger, circular, booklet, card, pamphlet, sheet or written or printed notice advertising any commodity, article, merchandise, business, person, things or activity. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7342)
9.48.100 Animals at large.
It is unlawful for any person to let loose or permit to run at large any animal or fowl of any kind, in or upon any park without first having obtained consent of the parks and recreation department. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7351)
9.48.110 Littering prohibited.
No person shall throw, place, cast, deposit or dump, or cause to be thrown, placed, cast, deposited or dumped any ashes, refuse, offal, vegetables, garbage, dross, cinders, shells, straw, shavings, paper, scraps, dirt, dead animals, dead fish, dead fowl or dead reptile, glass, crockery, bones, tin cans or like matter, empty boxes, cartons, waste paper, remains of food, newspapers, filth or rubbish of any kind in any park, except to place the same in the cans or receptacles provided for such matter. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7361)
9.48.120 Disorderly conduct—Prohibited acts.
No person shall, in any park:
A. Use profane, indecent or insulting language;
B. Do any obscene or indecent act, or be indecently clad;
C. Throw stones or other missiles or drive golf balls or other objects unless permission has previously been granted by the parks and recreation department;
D. Fire, discharge or carry firearms as defined in Section 9.68.010;
E. Fire or carry any firecrackers, torpedoes, or fireworks;
F. Make any fire, except at places designated by the parks and recreation department for such use;
G. Play any game of chance, or have or use or operate any gaming table or instrument or apparatus or equipment for such use;
H. Do any act tending to a breach of the public peace;
I. Beg or solicit contributions, gifts or subscriptions;
J. Tell fortunes, read horoscopes or practice palmistry for compensation;
K. Climb upon any wall, fence, shelter, tree, seat, statue, building, structure, construction or erection;
L. Bring, land or cause to descend or alight any airplane, airship, flying machine, dirigible, dirigible balloon, balloon parachute or other instrumentality or machine or apparatus for aviation, except by permission of the council;
M. Dig, tunnel or excavate in any part of said parks or in any manner remove earth therefrom;
N. Play any electronic or other musical instrument or radio in such a manner that would cause excessive noise without first obtaining permission from the parks and recreation department;
O. Drive, park or use any motor or other vehicle in a park owned or operated by the city unless permission is granted by chief of police. Exempt therefrom are city vehicles operated by city employees.
The chief of police is authorized to control and restrict parking to vendors in alleys adjacent to parks, before, during and after public celebration by issuing parking permits and posting alleys for a period not to exceed two days. (Ord. 714 § 1, 1988; Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7370)
9.48.130 Supervision of minors.
No parent, guardian or custodian of a minor shall permit or allow such minor to do any act or thing, in any park, which act or thing is prohibited by the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7381)
9.48.140 Ejecting violators.
All persons doing any act or thing injurious to any park shall be removed therefrom by the keeper or by the police and prohibited from returning to or entering any park for a length of time determined by the director of parks and recreation. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7382)
9.48.150 Damaging plants.
No person shall cut, break, dig up, pull up, pluck or in any manner injure any tree, bush, shrub, flower or plant growing in any park or in any building or structure within any park. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7391)
9.48.160 Removing plants.
No person shall remove or take away any tree, wood, bush, turf, flower, plant, grass, soil or rock or anything of like kind from any park. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7392)
9.48.170 Defacing structures.
No person shall destroy, mutilate, deface, cut, scratch, mark upon, write upon, print upon or otherwise mar or mutilate or deface or injure any building or structure, rest room, toilet, apartment or structure or any wall, fence, door, fixture or any part thereof, or any furniture, equipment or apparatus therein, within any park. (Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7393)
9.48.180 Penalty for violation.
The penalty for violations of this chapter shall be as prescribed in Section 1.16.010. (Ord. 505 § 2 (part), 1973: Ord. 450 § 1 (part), 1970: prior code § 7400)