(A) The Board, under M.S. §§ 398.31 to 398.36, as it may be amended from time to time, in performing its primary duty of the acquisition, development, and maintenance of county parks, wildlife sanctuaries, forest, and other reservations, and providing the means for public access to historic sites, lakes, rivers, streams, and other natural phenomena is granted full power and authority to acquire and establish county parks and to operate, maintain, protect, and improve a park system and conduct a recreational program. As an aid to the accomplishment of these duties, the Board is granted the authority to enact ordinances and to declare that the violation thereof shall be a payable or a penal offense.
(B) The Board, under M.S. Chapter 342, or successor statute chapter, M.S. §§ 145A.04 and 145A.05, or successor statutes, M.S. § 144.414, or successor statute, and M.S. § 152.0263, or successor statute, has the power and authority to limit the use of alcohol, tobacco, cannabis flower, cannabis products, hemp-derived consumer products, and lower-potency hemp edibles in public places in Carver County, Minnesota.
(Ord. 30, passed 4-14-87; Am. Ord. 72-2011, passed 1-17-12; Am. Ord. 86-2018, passed 8-21-18; Am. Ord. 105-2024, passed 5-21-24)