The following rules are hereby adopted for the government of the public parks of the city.
(A) No person shall discharge any fireworks or firearms in the parks of the city without the permission of the City Council or Commissioner of Public Property.
(B) No person shall write upon or mark or deface in any manner, or use in any improper way, any water closet, seat, fence or any property or thing pertaining to or in any park of the city.
(C) No person shall drive or ride upon the grass or footways or elsewhere than upon the roads for the use of vehicles in said parks.
(D) No person shall break, cut, mutilate or injure, remove or carry away any tree, plant, shrub, fence or any property in or upon any park or on any street, avenue or highway around the same.
(E) No person shall chase, kill, set snare for, catch or attempt to catch any squirrels, birds, fish or any animal being in or belonging to said parks or kept therein.
(F) No person shall paste, affix or inscribe any handbill or poster on any structure or property in or on any such park, place or square or highway surrounding the same.
(G) No person shall curse, swear, yell or use abusive language, or fight or throw stones, or behave in a riotous or disorderly manner in any of said parks.
(H) No person shall sell any article whatever in any of said parks, except when authorized by the Council.
(I) No person shall fasten a horse or other animal to a tree in any of said parks.
(J) Gambling and playing cards are prohibited in the parks.
(K) No person shall make a fire for any purpose on the grounds of any of the parks except a park employee when so directed by his superiors
(L) No person shall bring any dog into any of the parks except when fastened or led by a cord, string or chain sufficient to properly retain the same.
(M) No person shall trespass on any grounds enclosed with a wire, rail or other fence in any of the parks.
(N) No picnic shall take place in the parks without a permit being obtained for the purpose from the Council or Commissioner of Public Property, but private family picnics shall not be included within this prohibition.
(O) No person shall disturb any picnic or intrude himself upon it without the consent of those composing it.
(P) No person shall throw, scatter or leave any paper, trash, garbage or any rubbish or materials whatsoever in any park, but all such matter shall be deposited at once in receptacles provided for that purpose.
('71 Code, § 9-7-1) (Am. Ord. 1944, passed 12-27-76) Penalty, see § 10.99