(A) No fires or campstoves shall be allowed, except in the following designated areas:
(1) Park campstoves or fireplaces provided for such purposes;
(2) Portable stoves in picnic areas, if such stoves are in proper working order; and
(3) No fire shall be left unattended and every fire shall be extinguished before its user leaves the park area.
(B) No person shall:
(1) Hunt, pursue, trap, kill, injure, molest or disturb the habitat of any bird or animal;
(2) Discharge any firearm, pellet gun, bow and arrow, slingshot or other weapon capable of injuring any person, bird or animal; or
(3) Possess any loaded firearm in any park area.
(C) Flowers, shrubs, foliage, trees or plant life or products of any type shall not be picked, cut, mutilated or removed from any park area without written permission from the City Council.
(D) No person shall mutilate, deface, damage or remove any table, bench, building, sign, marker, monument, fence, barrier, fountain, faucet, traffic recorder or other structure or facility of any kind in a park area.
(E) No person shall, except under special regulations of the City Council dig up, deface or remove any dirt, stones, rock or other substance whatever, make any excavation, quarry any stone or lay or set off any blast, or roll any stones or other objects, or cause or assist in doing any of the said things within a park area.
(F) No person shall, except in designated area, erect signs, markers or inscriptions of any type within a park area without permission from the City Council.
(G) No person in a park area may:
(1) Operate a concession, either fixed or mobile;
(2) Solicit, sell or offer for sale, peddle, hawk or vend any goods, wares, merchandise, food, liquids or services;
(3) Advertise any goods or services by any means whatsoever; or
(4) Distribute any circulars, notices, leaflets, pamphlets or written or printed information of any kind, without written permission from the City Council.
(H) Motor vehicles including cars, trucks, motorcycles or mopeds shall be operated only on roads and parking areas constructed or designated for motor vehicle use. No motor vehicle shall be operated on any trail or in any part of a park area not constructed or designated for motor vehicle use, or on any road or trail where signs have been placed or erected by authority of the City Council prohibiting the driving of motor vehicles. Automobiles, or other vehicles shall be parked only in designated parking areas.
(I) No dog, cat or other animal of any kind shall be brought into or kept in a park area unless confined, or in a vehicle, or on a leash. The authority of the city park employee includes the authority to undertake any measures (including removal of the animal from the park area) deemed by the park employee necessary to prevent interference by the animal with the safety, comfort and well-being of the park area users or the appearance or sanitary condition of the park area. No animals, other than seeing-eye dogs, shall be allowed in any building.
(J) No bottles, cans, ashes, waste, paper, garbage, sewage or other rubbish or refuse shall be left in a park area, except in the receptacles designated for that purpose.
(K) No person shall set up or use a public address system in a park area without the written permission of the City Council.
(L) No person shall ride, drive, lead or keep a saddle horse or other animal in any park area. No horse or other animal shall be hitched to any tree shrub in such a manner that may cause damage to such a tree or shrub.
(M) No person shall wash any clothing or other materials, or clean any fish in a pond, stream or river in the park area.
(N) No person shall use abusive, threatening, boisterous, vile, obscene or indecent language or gestures in a park area. Public demonstrations, public disturbances or riotous behavior or indecent exposure will not be allowed in any city park area.
(O) No overnight camping will be permitted unless authorized in writing by the City Council.
(P) No person shall operate any motor vehicle within a park area at a speed in excess of ten mph in the entire park area unless specifically designated otherwise.
(Q) No person shall operate or use any noise producing machine, vehicle, device or instrument in such a manner that is disturbing to other park area visitors.
(R) Except as authorized in writing by the City Council, no person, other than law enforcement officers or authorized city personnel, shall enter or remain in any park area from 10:00 p.m. until 8:00 a.m.
(Ord. 81-4, passed 6-2-1981) Penalty, see § 93.99