For the conduct of persons using or frequenting the public parks of Heppner, Oregon, the following rules and regulations to be observed and enforced within said public parks are hereby established:
A. Fires: No person shall build any fire within public parks except in a designated stove or fireplace. However, cooking stoves may be used within public parks if used in safe operating conditions. No fire or stove shall be left unattended and every fire or stove shall be extinguished before its user leaves the park area.
B. Animals: No person shall in any manner pursue, kill, injure, hunt or molest any bird or animal within any park.
C. Dogs: No person shall permit any dog to run at large within any public parks, and all dogs shall be kept in control on a leash at all times. Owners of dogs or other animals damaging or destroying park property shall be liable for the full value of the property damaged or destroyed, in addition to impounding fees and the penalty imposed for violation of this chapter.
D. Motor Vehicles: No motor vehicle, trailers, or motorcycles shall be operated, stopped, parked or left standing any place in a public park except on public roads and designated parking areas or as otherwise approved by the City administration.
E. Hours: No person shall use or frequent public parks between the hours of nine o'clock (9:00) P.M. and six o'clock (6:00) A.M., except during special occasions or events as may be authorized by the City administration.
F. Waste Materials: No person shall scatter, discard or dispose of any garbage, bottles, broken glass, tin cans, or paper, litter or waste materials within public parks. All such material must be placed in designated receptacles. It shall be a violation of this chapter for any person to haul household garbage, rubbish or trash to the public parks and deposit the same in the park or on public property.
G. Sanitation: No person shall blow, spread or place any nasal or other bodily discharge, or urinate or defecate within parks excepting directly in an appropriate public restroom facility.
H. Plants, Structures: No person shall pick, mutilate, dig or remove from a public park any plant or plants or in any way deface or mutilate, burn, destroy, defile, graffiti, or remove any railing, building, seat, fence, park facility, decorative item, any other structure or tree within a public park.
I. Signs: No person shall erect signs, markers or inscriptions of any type within the limits of a public park without a specific permission from the City administration. Temporary signs posted no more than twenty four (24) hours are permitted.
J. Soliciting: No person while in a public park may operate a concession, either fixed or mobile, or engage in the business of soliciting, selling or peddling any liquids, or edibles for human consumption, or distribute circulars, or hawk, peddle or vend any goods, wares or merchandise, or set up or use a public-address system in a public park without a specific written permit from the City administration.
K. Public Nuisance: No person shall use abusive, threatening, boisterous, vile, obscene or indecent language, or gestures in a public park, nor shall any person cause, attempt to cause, or bring about any public nuisance. Drunken and/or disorderly conduct shall be deemed a public nuisance and shall be cause for expulsion from the public park.
L. Public Drinking Fountains: No person shall willfully mark, scratch, disfigure, deface or in any manner injure any public drinking fountain in the City, or throw, place or deposit in any cup or basin of same any cigar or cigarette stub, or any other matter of refuse whatever.
M. Permits Required: Permits shall be required for the assembly of persons in the public parks to which the general public is invited when it is reasonably expected that such assembly will be attended by twenty five (25) or more persons. The City Council may require the person, persons, club, group, organization, corporation to furnish police, fire, medical, sanitary and clean- up services. Permits shall also be required for music, art, religious and other shows and/or displays in public parks.
N. Ordinances And Statutes: All ordinances and statutes of the Federal, State, and City shall apply to and be in full force and effect within public parks.
O. Alcoholic Beverages: No person shall be visibly intoxicated within public parks.
P. Supplement Rules And Regulations: The City may supplement the above rules and regulations by resolution. Rules and regulations shall be posted at public parks.
Q. Vandalism Of Other Public Facilities: No person who has been found guilty or plead guilty to an act of vandalism or destruction of any public facility within the City Limits of the City of Heppner shall be permitted to use any public park unless permission is given by the City Administration. (Ord. 581-18, 7-9-2018; amd. Ord. 585-19, 8-12-2019)