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The Department of Playground and Recreation is authorized to construct, maintain and operate groins, jetties, breakwaters, seawalls, pipe lines, and other work or structures, for the purpose of protecting public beach properties in the City and for the purpose of creating additional beach areas, and is further authorized to construct, maintain and operate piers, wharves, bath houses, lifesaving stations and equipment or other structures for recreation purposes upon, along or out from any beach properties owned or controlled, now or hereafter, by the City, provided the same do not interfere with the use of the waters of the Pacific Ocean for the purpose of commerce, navigation and fishery.
The Department of Playground and Recreation is hereby granted the sole jurisdiction to execute any and all permits, concessions, licenses and leases upon any tidelands, public beach lands and submerged lands, whether filled or unfilled, belonging to or controlled by the City in the area designated within the confines mentioned in Section 63.01; provided that any such permit, concession, license and lease is consistent with the trusts under which any of said lands are held by the City, and further provided that any such permit, concession, license or lease is consistent with the general laws of the State of California and the City Charter of the City. The aforesaid Department shall be entitled to all moneys or fees to be derived from said permits, concessions, licenses and leases heretofore or hereafter made upon any of said lands.
The Department of Playground and Recreation shall have jurisdiction and control over the construction of any groin, jetty, breakwater, sea wall, pipe line, sewer, pier, wharf, building or other structure, except public sewers or storm drains, in, or out from any of the area over which the said Department has, or may acquire, jurisdiction.
The Department of Playground and Recreation shall have the right to renew any and all grants heretofore made on any of said public beach lands at the expiration of the term of any of the present grants involving said lands, provided the same is done in conformity with the trust under which any of said lands are held by the City, and, provided, further, that any such grant is made in conformity with the general laws of the State of California, the Charter of the City and the provisions of this article.
The Board of Playground and Recreation Commissioners may make any rules and regulations governing the presentation of any spectacle, pageants or other exhibitions on any wharves, water or public lands within said areas described in Section 63.01 when in the exercise of a reasonable discretion of said Board any such spectacle, pageant or exhibition causes crowds to be collected on any wharf, waters or public beach lands in a manner that might endanger the lives, persons or health of the public. The Board of Playground and Recreation Commissioners shall make any rules and regulations that it deems necessary governing the use of any public beach lands by the general public, bathers, exhibitors, vendors, advertisers, and handbill circulators, and it shall be the duty of the Department of Playground and Recreation to patrol said public beach lands with lifeguards.
The Board of Playground and Recreation Commissioners shall have the power to declare a forfeiture of any grant made under this article, upon the neglect, failure or refusal by the grantee thereof to comply with any of the terms or conditions of the grant, and that upon such forfeiture, any and all buildings, structures and improvements of whatsoever character erected, installed or made under, through or because of, or pursuant to the terms of the grant, shall immediately, ipso facto become the property of the City, and every such grant shall so provide.
No person shall construct, maintain, replace, repair or operate any groin, jetty, breakwater, sea wall, pipe line, storm drain, pier, wharf, building or other structure, in, on, or out from, any of the area, water or lands, over which the Department of Playground and Recreation has or many acquire jurisdiction, unless a grant for the construction, maintenance, repair, replacement or operation thereof, shall have been first duly issued by the Board of Playground and Recreation Commissioners, hereinafter provided in Section 63.10.
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