The following conduct or activity shall be prohibited for use within the limits of the Hillside Wilderness Preserve:
(A) Breaking, defacing, disturbing, marking or writing upon any building, monument, fence, cage, pen, monument, statue, bench or other structure, apparatus or property;
(B) Defacing, destroying, covering, damaging or removing any placard, notice or sign or parts thereof, whether permanent or temporary, posted or exhibited by the city;
(C) Camping or lodging unless authorized by a special permit from the Public Services Department;
(D) Throwing, depositing, leaving, scattering or dropping or abandoning bottles, cans, broken glass, hot coals, ashes, papers, trash, sewage, waste or other materials, except in receptacles provided for such purposes;
(E) Fires and flame devices:
(1) Making or kindling any fire except in designated barbeques provided by the city or camping spaces as authorized by a special permit from the Fire Department;
(2) Lighting, smoking, carrying, throwing or dropping any burning or smoldering portion of any cigarette, cigar, match or other burning substance in any area of the Hillside Wilderness Preserve;
(3) Carrying or discharging any firearms, firecrackers, rockets, torpedoes, fireworks or other explosive or blasting devices, air guns or slingshots;
(4) Tampering, mutilating, destroying or removing installed Fire Department locks, barricades, seals, cables, signs and markers, or allowing any of these activities to occur;
(5) Unlocking installed Fire Department gates, doors, barriers, and locks, or allowing any of these activities to occur;
(F) Plants, streams, ponds, and other natural features:
(1) Cutting, injuring, disturbing, plucking, pulling up or out, taking or removing any shrub, bush, tree, plant or flower;
(2) Cutting or removing any wood, turf, grass, soil, rock, sand or gravel;
(3) Digging any trenches, holes or other excavations;
(4) Swimming, bathing, wading in or polluting any stream, pond, lake or fountain;
(5) Throwing any trash, rubbish, vegetable or animal matter of any kind in any stream, pond, lake or fountain;
(6) Discharging waste water or any other wastes in the park except in designated containers, drains or dumping stations;
(7) Placing any debris or other pollutant in or upon any park lands or any body of water in or adjacent to a city park or any tributary, stream, storm sewer or drain, or engaging or participating in any activity or act that will impair or imperil the purity or wholesomeness of any water designed for household or domestic use;
(8) Rolling or throwing boulders, rocks or stones down the sides of any declivity or from any trails without first taking all necessary precaution to protect persons below from injury;
(G) Wildlife and other animals:
(1) Leading or letting loose any cattle, horse, mule, goat, sheep, swine or fowl of any kind;
(2) Riding or driving any horse or other animal not broken into and under the driver's perfect control;
(3) Riding or propelling any horse or other animal elsewhere other than on roadways or trails provided for such purposes;
(4) Killing, trapping, hunting, pursuing or in any manner disturbing any species of wildlife or other animals, including snakes other than poisonous snakes;
(5) Feeding any non-domesticated mammalian wildlife, including but not limited to bears, deer, mountain lions, coyotes, raccoons, opossum, mice, rats, skunks, squirrels or feral cats. This prohibition does not include feeding of any non-domesticated mammalian by the owner of such animal when the non-domesticated mammalian is kept under a valid certificate or permit issued by the state of California Department of Fish and Game;
(6) Bringing any animal into a park unless caged or kept on a leash no more than six feet in length;
(7) Allowing or permitting any animal under that person's ownership or possession to defecate on any publicly owned place, or otherwise having custody or possession of such animal at designated areas without possessing an appropriate device for cleaning up such animal's feces and disposing of it in a sanitary manner;
(8) Permitting any animal under that person's control to disturb, harass or interfere with any park visitor, a park visitor's property or a city employee;
(9) Keeping or maintaining noisy, offensive or dangerous animals as provided in § 6.28.080 of this code;
(10) Releasing or abandoning any animal within the park;
(H) Disorderly or hazardous conduct:
(1) Indulging in riotous, boisterous, threatening or indecent conduct, or abusive, threatening, profane or indecent language;
(2) Engaging or participating in any game or activity which may create hazard or danger to other persons or property, including, but not limited to, baseball, hitting of golf balls, engaging in model airplane flying, use of weapons; provided, however, that any such activity shall be permissible within any area which is specifically designed for such activity;
(3) Obstructing, interfering with, remaining or loitering in a manner which interferes with the use or purpose of any park, recreation facility or publicly owned place;
(4) Failing to comply with posted hours, signage or applicable rules;
(5) Failing to observe any Hillside Wilderness Preserve closure;
(I) Playing, participating or betting at or against any game of chance which is played, conducted or carried on with cards, dice or other device for money, chips, shells, credit or any other representative of value, or maintaining any gambling table or other instrument of gambling and gaming;
(J) Operation of vehicles:
(1) Driving or operating any vehicle, cycle or automobile elsewhere other than on roadways provided for such purposes, or at a rate of speed greater than the posted speed limit or as provided in this code;
(2) Operating a motor vehicle or approaching any curve or turn on any mountain road within any park without sounding the horn of such vehicle;
(3) Operating any motor vehicle with an open muffler or making unnecessary smoke or noise of any kind in such operation;
(4) Parking or leaving a motor vehicle standing except in designated areas and only in a manner so as not to restrict normal traffic flow;
(5) Parking or leaving a motor vehicle standing after closing hours; unless authorized by a special permit from the Public Services Department;
(6) Failing to yield right of way to pedestrians and other trail or roadway users;
(7) Failing to obey posted signs;
(K) Riding any bicycle, skateboard, roller skates, or similar type of device except on designated roadways or trails;
(L) Commercial and other related activities:
(1) Posting or placing any bills, notices, papers or advertising devices of any kind;
(2) Selling or offering for sale any merchandise, article or thing without the permission of the City Council;
(3) Practicing, carrying on, conducting or soliciting for any trade, occupation, business, or profession without the permission of the City Council;
(4) Selling, exchanging, giving, loaning or distributing any pressurized can containing any substance commonly known as paint or dye to anyone under the age of 18 years old;
(5) Possessing any pressurized can containing any substance commonly known as paint or dye while in any city park, playground, swimming pool, recreational facility, public highway, street, alley or any publicly owned place, whether inside a vehicle or not, except as authorized by the city. Such authorization includes authorization provided to city employees or employees of an individual or company under contract with the city;
(M) Assembling, collecting or gathering together in any walk, driveway, passageway, roadway or pathway in any park or in any other place set apart for the travel of persons or vehicles in and through any park, or to occupy the same so that the free passage and use thereof by persons passing along the same is obstructed in any manner, unless authorized by a permit from the Public Services Department.
(Ord. 2016-13 § 1, 2016)