Chapter 2.15
PARKS DEPARTMENT
Sections:
2.15.010 Public parks.
The town of Whitestown shall operate a system of public parks under the jurisdiction of a board of park commissioners. [Ord. 1984-05 § 10. Prior code Title 3, Art. 4, Ch. 1]
2.15.020 Restructuring.
A. The Whitestown parks board is hereby reorganized and restructured with the membership of a park authority under IC 36-10-5-2(b)(1). Accordingly, the members of the municipal legislative body of Whitestown shall hereafter serve as ex officio members of the Whitestown parks board. All other membership on the Whitestown parks board, other than the members of the municipal legislative body, is therefore dissolved, and all authority of the Whitestown parks board shall be transferred and invested in the members as reconstituted by this section. The Whitestown parks board, as restructured hereunder, shall have and maintain all authority and responsibility over the operation and maintenance of the Whitestown parks department, including but not limited to all property, facilities, programs, personnel, and rules and regulations of the Whitestown parks department, as may be permitted by Indiana law.
B. The Whitestown parks board may, from time to time, establish advisory committees interested in the town, public parks, playgrounds, recreational facilities, programs and properties, having authority and responsibility as directed by the Whitestown parks board.
C. It is the intent of Whitestown that this section and the acts hereunder not abrogate or alter the prior and currently applicable rules and regulations relating to the Whitestown parks department, subject only to the transfer of functions attendant to the restructuring of the Whitestown parks board as set forth herein. To that end, all prior rules and regulations of the Whitestown parks board are ratified and reaffirmed until such other time as the reconstituted Whitestown parks board determines otherwise. All prior ordinances or resolutions in conflict with the restructuring of the Whitestown parks board as set forth in this section are hereby superseded to the extent in conflict herewith. [Ord. 2017-03 §§ 1 – 3; Ord. 2001-21; Ord. 1975-08 §§ 1, 2]