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11-9.4   Police Aid to Other Cities and Towns in Event of Riots and Other Violence Therein.
   The Boston Police Department is hereby authorized to go to aid another city or town at the request of said city or town in the suppression of riots or other forms of violence therein.
(Ord. 1950 c. 8; Rev. Ord. 1961 (Temporary Ord.); CBC 1975 Ord. T11 § 403; CBC 1985 11-9.4)
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   Ord. s 11-1
11-9.5   Termination of Ordinance.
   This Section shall remain in force during the effective period of Chapter 639, Acts of 1950, and any act in amendment or continuation thereof or substitution therefor.
(Ord. 1950 c. 8; Rev. Ord. 1961 (Temporary Ord.); CBC 1975 Ord. T11 § 404; CBC 1985 11-9.5)
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   St. 1950 c. 639
11-9.6   Definition.
   All references to Chapter 639, Acts of 1950, as now in force shall be applicable to any act or acts in amendment or continuation of or substitution for said Chapter 639.
(Ord. 1950 c. 8; Rev. Ord. 1961 (Temporary Ord.); CBC 1975 Ord. T11 § 405; CBC 1985 11-9.6)
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   St. 1950 c. 639
11-10   PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT.
11-10.1   Overview.
   The city Parks and Recreation Department oversees 2,200 acres of parkland, including 215 parks and playgrounds, 65 squares, 16 historic burying grounds, three active cemeteries, two golf courses, a variety of urban woodlands and immeasurable street trees. The Department also programs a wide range of community events and live entertainment in the parks under its jurisdiction and employs Boston Park Rangers to monitor the parks and enhance public safety. Over the last ten years, the Parks Department has implemented a $120,000,000 rehabilitation of the city park system targeting every tot lot and most ball fields and hard courts.
(CBC 1985 11-10.1; Ord. 2004 c. 13 § 1)
11-10.2   Dog Recreation Spaces.
11-10.2(a) Introduction and Purpose.
   (A)   These Sections delineate a community- initiated process for the city to establish dog recreation spaces within the city through the City’s Parks and Recreation Commission and an external applicant for a city dog recreation space. The applicant may be an individual, a group of individuals or a formal organization. The process is community-initiated, and it remains community-centered by requiring the applicant to remain actively involved in the maintenance of the space and the implementation of rules and regulations in and around the space. This Subsection is designed and intended to highlight and require a prominent role of the applicant for a Boston dog recreation space in the creation, establishment, funding and maintenance of the dog recreation space.
   (B)   The applicant will also assume a primary role in establishing, promulgating and compelling compliance with standards of conduct in and around the dog recreation spaces.
   (C)   The establishment of a dog recreation space requires measures of flexibility to allow for variations in space availability and the needs of the neighborhoods enjoying the dog recreation space; such flexibility may include the establishment of multi-use parks/areas. Although the city has a multitude of pre-existing commitments to other current recreational uses in the city’s parks, it is the intention of the city to preserve the space and integrity of the city’s tot lots, tennis courts, basketball courts, tracks and baseball/softball fields, which shall in no way be diminished or compromised by the siting/location of a dog recreation space. The provisions of these Sections, however, shall not preclude an applicant from seeking to use other publicly owned land, other than parkland, for a dog recreation space.
(CBC 1985 11-10.2(a); Ord. 2004 c. 13 § 1)
11-10.2(b) Definitions.
   For the purpose of this Subsection, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
   ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER. The Animal Control Officer of the city as identified in Section 14-5, or his or her designee, Agent or successor.
   APPLICANT. As defined in Subsection 11-10.2(c).
   CBC. The City of Boston Code of Ordinances.
   COMMISSION. The Parks and Recreation Commission of the city or its successor.
   DOG KEEPER. Any person that supervises a dog entering a DRS, recreating within a DRS or exiting a DRS.
   DOG RECREATION SPACE or DRS. Any area of land, including, but not limited to, an area within existing public or park space, that, pursuant to Subsection 11-10.2, has been specifically designated as a DOG RECREATION SPACE.
   MOA. A memorandum of agreement between the Parks and Recreation Commission and the applicant which delineates the understanding and/or agreement of the roles and responsibilities for the creation, maintenance and operation of a DRS.
   OWNER. Any person that owns a dog entering a DRS, recreating within a DRS, or exiting a DRS whether or not the OWNER is acting as a dog keeper.
   PARK RANGER. Any Ranger of the Parks and Recreation Department of the city.
   PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION. The Parks and Recreation Commission of the city as identified in Subsection 7-4.1, or its designee, Agent or successor.
(CBC 1985 11-10.2(b); Ord. 2004 c. 13 § 1; Ord. 2014 c. 15 § 2)
11-10.2(c)   Applicant for a Dog Recreation Space.
   (A)   APPLICANT means a group of ten individuals that applies for and/or receives approval for the designation of a Dog Recreation Space.
   (B)   Nothing in these Sections shall prevent a pre-existing “friends” group from acting as an applicant. Each person comprising the applicant shall be a resident of the city.
   (C)   The applicant shall designate one person to be the sole contact for communication with the city, and the person so designated may be changed by the applicant only by forwarding written notice to the Commission. No person other than the person so designated on the application, or changed in accordance with the terms of this division (C), shall have authority or standing to interact with the city regarding a specific DRS. Unless designated on the application, no individual user of a DRS shall have authority or standing to interact with the city regarding a specific DRS.
(CBC 1985 11-10.2(c); Ord. 2004 c. 13 § 1)
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