(A) All municipally owned parks and playgrounds of the city and all similar real property owned by the city, not directly engaged in the operation of facilities which require that the general public have access to such premises during the hours hereinafter recited, shall be closed to the general public from 11:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m., daily. Any person found in, on or about such premises during the hours herein set forth, unless such person is actually engaged at such time in official business for the city, the county, the state or the United States, shall be deemed to have violated this section. The prohibition herein contained shall not extend to any public meeting, exercise or exhibition held upon any such municipal properties which shall extend beyond 11:00 p.m., unless the person attending such public meeting, exercise or exhibition shall have been allowed a reasonable time in which to leave the premises. Nothing contained in this section shall interfere with the closing hours of any city department or division thereof and the use of its own facilities in the public interest, but this section is designed to prevent persons from entering or loitering upon municipally owned real estate referred to herein during the prohibited hours when such entering or loitering is not connected with official business.
('72 Code, § 29-48)
(B) The Director, with the approval of the City Manager, may, at his or her discretion, change the hours of closing in any park where he or she deems it necessary. The Director, with the approval of the City Manager, shall cause proper notice to be placed in the main entrances to the city parks, playgrounds and properties referred to in division (A), warning the general public that such properties are closed during the hours therein recited. (‘72 Code, § 29-49)
(Ord. O-71-21, passed 2-3-71; Am. Ord. O-2015-28, passed 10-21-15) Penalty, see § 103.99