(A) Dangerous equipment. Practicing, playing or using any apparatus, including any sports apparatus, that may, despite the exercise of reasonable care, create a danger to any person because of its use in a public area, including but not limited to the following: golf, disc golf, horseshoes, spears, javelins, shot put, lawn darts, archery and discus in park areas is prohibited except in areas expressly authorized or provided for such purposes.
(B) Swimming is prohibited in all parks except in facilities expressly authorized for that purpose. Personal bathing is prohibited.
(C) No person shall possess, use, or distribute illegal drugs or any controlled substances on park property.
(D) Smoking and use of a vaping device in parks and park property is prohibited. It shall be unlawful to smoke or vape in any town park or park property held for public recreation in the town.
(E) No person shall possess or discharge any fireworks, model rockets, or other explosive materials or devices on park property, except as authorized by the Town Manager or his or her designee.
(F) No person shall operate any device to amplify sound which creates excessive or otherwise create excessive noise to disturb the peace and public enjoyment of park property, except as authorized by approval by the Town Manager or his or her designee.
(G) Use of metal detectors or use of neodymium magnets are not permitted in parks, except as authorized by approval by the Town Manager or his or her designee.
(H) Recreational drones and any radio-controlled aerial device are not permitted within any park.
(I) No person shall make or kindle any open fire. Private portable grills may be used in certain park areas as approved by the Town Manager or his or her designee.
(J) No person shall urinate or defecate on park property other than in the restrooms or designated sanitary facility.
(K) No person shall dump, abandon, discard, release or spill as refuse, bulk trash, landscape material, liquid, or similar objects or substances on park property or park dumpster unless provided expressly for public use and authorized by posted signage.
(L) No person shall misuse or abuse park property by utilizing it in any manner other than as appropriate according to its intended design.
(M) No person in a park shall conduct himself or herself by word or by act, in a riotous, disorderly, boisterous, threatening or other manner so as to disturb the peace and good order of the park.
(N) No person in a park shall solicit another to engage in an act of sex perversion or solicit or request another to commit, perform or engage in any lewd, lascivious, obscene, or indecent act or behavior.
(O) No person shall establish or maintain any camp or other temporary lodging place or sleeping place, within the park, without the specific written permit from the Town Manager or his or her designee.
(Ord. 2023-08, passed 11-14-2023)