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(a) (1) Except with respect to City owned and operated swimming pools when duly authorized attendants are on duty at such pools, and except with respect to other areas designated from time to time as "Designated Swimming Area" by either the City Council or the Safety-Service Director whether or not any duly authorized attendants are on duty at such location(s), no person shall swim in any lake, pond, river, reservoir, or body of water located on land owned or used by the City for Municipal purposes where such lands are situated within the corporate limits.
(2) Council by and through the passage of this section, hereby designates the beach area of the body of water commonly known as "Eastview Pond", which is located in Eastview Park within the City, as a "Designated Swimming Area" pursuant to subsection (a)(l) hereof.
(3) This "Designated Swimming Area" at Eastview Pond is in no way required to have any duly authorized attendants on duty at Eastview Pond, with such duly authorized agents including but not limited to lifeguards.
(4) Any and all swimming and appurtenant activities and actions engaged in at Eastview Pond are to be done solely at the risk of the person(s) engaging in such action(s).
(5) No person shall engage in fishing at any "beach area" or at any "Designated Swimming Area" at or within any body of water located within any municipal park.
(6) No person shall permit any animal(s) at any "beach area" or any "Designated Swimming Area" in any body of water located within any municipal park. (Ord. 30-16-O. Passed 11-14-16.)
(a) No person being the owner or having charge of cattle, horses, swine, sheep, geese, ducks, goats, turkeys, chickens or other fowl or animals shall permit them to run at large within or upon any public park.
(b) No owner, keeper or harborer of any animal, including but not limited to a dog, shall permit it to go within or upon any public park unless the animal is properly in leash and under the control of the owner, keeper or harborer.
(c) No provision of this section shall apply to a law enforcement animal performing duties, training, and similar activities, if under the supervision and/or control of law enforcement
personnel.
(Ord. 30-16-O. Passed 11-14-16.)
The owner, keeper or harborer of any animal which damages or destroys any property, including park or public property, shall be held liable for the full value of the propetiy damaged or destroyed, in addition to any penalty imposed for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter and/or for a violation of any otherwise-applicable provision of law, including under the Ohio Revised Code.
(Ord. 30-16-O. Passed 11-14-16.)
(a) No owner, keeper or harborer of any animal shall fail to immediately remove the animal's fecal material upon deposit upon or within any municipal park.
(b) For purposes of this section, each occurrence of animal defecation described herein shall constitute a separate offense.
(Ord. 30-16-O. Passed 11-14-16.)
It is unlawful to shoot, fire or explode any firearm, firecracker, fireworks, torpedo or explosive of any kind, or to shoot or fire any air gun, BB gun, bow and arrow, crossbow, slingshot, or any similar weapon, in any municipal park, except the Safety Service Director may authorize archery, slinging, fireworks and firing of small bore arms at designated times and places suitable for their use.
(Ord. 30-16-O. Passed 11-14-16.)
It is herein noted that the prohibitions contained in this chapter are not exclusive and that all provisions of Part Five- General Offenses Code of the Codified Ordinances apply equally to conduct within municipal parks, as well as not exclusive of any otherwise-applicable provision of the Ohio Revised Code which also applies equally to conduct within municipal parks.
(Ord. 30-16-O. Passed 11-14-16.)
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