The Board of Park and Recreation Commissioners shall have the necessary, appropriate, convenient and incidental powers and authority to manage and control all public parks, parkways, playgrounds, athletic fields, stadiums, swimming pools, skating rinks, or arenas and other public park and recreational facilities of all kinds used as a part of the public park and recreation system or as a means of maintaining places of beauty, education and promoting the health, property, lives, decency, morality and good order of the general public, and particularly of the inhabitants of the Municipality and vicinity; to abate or cause to be abated all nuisances affecting same; to regulate or prohibit the selling of any article, goods, wares or merchandise within the park and recreation system so designated; to regulate or prohibit the placing of signs, billboards, posters and advertisements within the park and recreation system as so designated, or the grounds immediately adjacent thereto; to have the same kept in good order and free from obstruction for the use and benefit of the public; to restrict and prohibit vagrants, mendicants, beggars, tramps, prostitutes or disorderly individuals therefrom; to establish, construct, improve, extend, develop, maintain and operate such parks, parkways, playgrounds, athletic fields, stadiums, swimming pools, skating rinks or arenas and other public park and recreational facilities, whether of a like or different nature, on any grounds controlled by the Board; to acquire for public use by lease or otherwise lands either within or without the corporate limits of the Municipality; to cause any public street, avenue, road, alley, way, bridle path or walkway, which is a part of the public park and recreation system, to be graded, drained and surfaced; to construct, maintain and operate all necessary sewers and water lines in connection with the public park and recreation system; to do any and all things or acts which may in any way be necessary, appropriate, convenient or incidental to the use and enjoyment of the public park and recreational system by the general public as a place or places of beauty, education, entertainment and recreation.
(Passed 10-4-84.)