The following regulations shall apply in all city parks.
(A) Any person picnicking or visiting in the parks shall properly dispose of all litter by placing it in the litter receptacle indicated for such use.
(B) Fires may be made only in such places as designated by, and with the permission of, the Director of Parks and Recreation.
(C) Fires may only be started in the proper fire receptacles provided and must be completely extinguished before leaving the fire receptacle unattended.
(D) No person shall remove or damage any piece of equipment, court, special facility, structure or area being a part of parks and recreation property.
(E) No person shall climb on any roof of any building, shelter or structure located on park property.
(F) No firearms, shooting or hunting are permitted on park property.
(G) No peddlers or vendors shall dispose of wares in competition with any concession in the parks within a range of two blocks of the parks.
(H) No motor vehicle or vehicles of any kind are to be driven or ridden on park property turf and walking trails. Vehicles shall not be driven in a spinning fashion or operated in an erratic manner so as to endanger the safety of others in a park or their property. For purposes of this division (H),
MOTOR VEHICLE is defined to include any vehicle that is propelled by motor, including an automobile, truck, motorcycle or similar vehicle, but shall not include motorized equipment utilized for disability access and city vehicles utilized for maintenance, emergency, police and/or fire purposes.
(I) The speed limit of any vehicle in the parks, except emergency vehicles, shall be 15 mph and is to be strictly observed.
(J) Courts, athletic diamonds and fields, shelters and any other special facilities, and/or areas designated as a special area, in the parks are to be used only by reservation through written consent of the Director of Parks and Recreation.
(K) No person shall engage in disorderly conduct, in any manner, infringe on the rights of others in a park, or disrupt the recreation program, parks maintenance and/or parks security family.
(L) No bathing, swimming or wading is permitted in the ponds.
(M) No trapping of animals or wildlife of any kind is permitted without the written permission of the Director of Parks and Recreation.
(N) Feeding of animals or wildlife is permitted only at the designated feeding stations.
(O) All parks, except Skateboard Park, shall be opened to the public for recreation program from dawn to dusk daily between Labor Day and Memorial Day, and from dawn to 7:00 p.m. daily between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Skateboard Park shall be opened to the public for recreation programs between 6:00 a.m. and dusk daily. It shall be unlawful for any person to be in the parks after these hours unless they are attending an event sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Board or an event for which a facility reservation and usage permit has been granted.
(P) Parks security families and maintenance personnel are responsible for the enforcement of all park regulations through full cooperation with the law enforcement agency of the city.
(Q) It shall be unlawful for any person to place or use a boat of any kind on any park pond unless they are attending an event sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Board.
(R) It shall be unlawful for any person who is not a patron of Bellevue Park to park his or her automobile on the Bellevue Park parking lot.
(S) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to possess alcohol in Bellevue Park except for the Stone Lodge Building by written permission of the Director of Parks and Recreation and written notification to the Liquor Commissioner, Ebsen Park, John Laderman Park, West End Square Park on north or south side, Cambridge Park 15 103 N. 30th Street, Gateway Park at 903 N. Illinois Street, Skateboard Park at 709 N. 2nd Street or Richland Creek Greenway Bike Trail.
(T) It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to possess alcohol in Rotary, Ever and Anon, Hough, Southside and Pleasant Hill Parks unless he or she has been issued a permit by the Mayor with Council approval.
(U) Overnight recreational vehicle parking on city-owned property between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. is prohibited, including but not limited to city parks.
(1960 Code, § 31-1-1) (Ord. 3439, passed 6-27-1977; Ord. 3822, passed 8-31-1981; Ord. 6745, passed 6-6-2005; Ord. 6812, passed 1-3-2006; Ord. 6925, passed 11-6-2006; Ord. 7698, passed 7-15-2013; Ord. 7936, passed 3-21-2016; Ord. 8291-2018, passed 12-17-2018; Ord. 8348-2019, passed 7-15-2019; Ord. 8968-2021, passed 7-19-2021; Ord. 8981-2021, passed 8-16-2021) Penalty, see § 94.99