CHAPTER 100: PARK DEPARTMENT RULES AND REGULATIONS

Section

   100.01   Definitions

   100.02   Construction and scope

   100.03   Defacement, destruction, removal, disturbance or bringing in of property, equipment, plants and animals

   100.04   Littering, rubbish, garbage, sewage and noxious material, air pollution, nuisance and damage

   100.05   Hunting and fishing

   100.06   Fires

   100.07   Firearms, weapons, explosives, missiles, and the like

   100.08   Sleeping or camping in parks

   100.09   Disorderly conduct

   100.10   Snowmobiles, sledding, skiing and skating

   100.11   Mini-bikes, motorcycles, go-karts, dune buggies, mopeds, ATVs and related vehicles

   100.12   Swimming, bathing, wading

   100.13   Domestic and farm animals

   100.14   Picnics

   100.15   Hours of operation

   100.99   Penalty

Cross-reference:

   Department of Parks and Recreation, see §§ 34.25 et seq.

§ 100.01 DEFINITIONS.

   For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.

   ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE. A beverage defined in IC 7.1-1-3-25.

   BOARD. The Lowell Town Council.

   CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. A substance defined in IC 35-48-1-9.

   DEPARTMENT. The Lowell Department of Parks and Recreation.

   DIRECTOR. The person who is hired or appointed by the Board to coordinate park and recreational programs, act for the Board, enforce park rules and regulations, and maintain good order within the Department.

   MOTOR BOAT. Any type of watercraft that has for its primary source of power an internal combustion engine or electric motor, whether inboard or outboard.

   PARK. All developments, improvements, facilities and/or all land minerals, water, overhead air rights, easements, and other reservations owned, leased, controlled or used by the Department.

   PERMIT. Includes any authorization issued by the Park Director at the direction of the Board for a specified park privilege, activity or event, or permitting the performance of a specified act or acts in any park.

   RULES AND REGULATIONS. Includes any rules and regulations adopted by the Board.

   PERSON. Individual, company, partnership, corporation or association, or any combination of individuals, or any employee, agent or officers thereof.

   VEHICLE. Any device, conveyance or combination of conveyances, wheeled or without wheels (but excepting motor boats), propelled, towed or unpropelled, that in, around or with which a person or thing is or may be carried, and shall include, without limitation, bicycles, skateboards, scooters, mini-bikes, motorcycles, automobiles and snowmobiles.

   WATERCRAFT. All flotation devices intended to carry a human passenger upon the water, including but not limited to, boats of any type, rafts, canoes, motorboats and inflatable floating devices.

(Ord. 2011-14, passed 12-27-11; Am. Ord. 2018-24, passed 8-27-18)

§ 100.02 CONSTRUCTION AND SCOPE.

   In the interpretation of this chapter, the following rules of construction shall apply:

   (A)   Any term in the singular shall include the plural.

   (B)   Any term in the masculine shall include the feminine and neuter.

   (C)   Any requirement or provision of the chapter relating to any act shall extend to include the causing, procuring, aiding or abetting, directly or indirectly, of such act; or the permitting or allowing of any unemancipated minor the doing of any act prohibited by the provisions hereof by the parent or legal guardian of such minor.

   (D)   No provision hereof shall make unlawful any act necessarily performed by any officer or employee of the Department in line of duty or work as such, or by any person, agent or employee in the proper and necessary execution of the terms of any agreement with the Board.

(Ord. 2011-14, passed 12-27-11)

§ 100.03 DEFACEMENT, DESTRUCTION, REMOVAL, DISTURBANCE OR BRINGING IN OF PROPERTY, EQUIPMENT, PLANTS AND ANIMALS.

   (A)   Defacement, destruction, removal. No person shall injure, deface, destroy, befoul or remove any part of a park or building, signs, equipment or other property found therein; nor shall any person cut down, destroy or injure standing or growing vine, shrub, bush, sapling, tree or flowers, or other vegetation or fruit or seed growing on park property, or maliciously injure, destroy, disturb or sever from a park, a product standing or growing or other thing, such as rocks or minerals, attached thereto or part thereof.

   (B)   Bringing in plants, trees or shrubs. Unless authorized by the Board, no person shall bring into or upon any park any trees, shrubs or plants or portion thereof.

   (C)   Bringing in and leaving animals, fish or fowl. Unless authorized by the Board, no person shall bring into and leave in any park any animal, fish or fowl.

(Ord. 2011-14, passed 12-27-11) Penalty, see § 100.99