It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation using the parks to either perform or permit to be performed any of the following acts:
(A) Commit any assault, battery or engage in fighting;
(B) Prevent any person from using any park or any of its facilities or interfere with the use in compliance with this subchapter and the rule applicable to use;
(C) Carry or discharge firearms, fireworks, BB guns, air guns, bows and arrows, crossbows, slingshots, blowguns, rockets, paint-ball guns or martial arts weapons unless authorized by the Superintendent or a duly sworn police officer;
(D) Hit golf balls;
(E) Damage, cut, break, injure, deface or disturb any tree, plant, shrub, rock, building, monument, fence, bench, equipment or other structure, apparatus or property; or to pluck, pull up, cut, take or remove any shrub, bush, plant or flower; or to mark or write upon, paint or deface in any manner any building, monument, fence, bench, equipment or other structure;
(F) Cut or remove any wood, turf, grass, soil, rock, gravel or fertilizer;
(G) Swim, bathe, wade in or pollute the water of any fountain, pond, lake or stream;
(H) Throw, discharge or otherwise place or cause to be placed in the waters of any fountain, pond, lake, stream, bay or other body of water in or adjacent to any park or any tributary, stream, storm sewer or drain flowing into the waters, any substance, matter or thing, liquid or solid, which will or may result in the pollution of the waters;
(I) Make or kindle a fire, except in picnic stoves, braziers, fire pits or designated areas for that purpose;
(J) Place, abandon or leave garbage, cans, bottles, papers, grass clippings, leaves or other refuse in any public park except in a proper waste receptacle. Nor is the dumping of any personal items, trash, grass clippings, leaves or other refuse, for the purpose of disposal, allowed in any park;
(K) Participate or engage in any activity in any public park area when the activity will create a danger to the public, a public nuisance or cause damage to park property;
(L) Camp, sleep or stay overnight in any park unless authorized by the Superintendent in writing;
(M) Possess or consume any alcoholic beverages;
(N) Disturb in any manner any picnic, meeting, service, concert, exercise or exhibition;
(O) For any person over the age of six years to use the restrooms and washrooms designated for the opposite sex, unless assistance is necessary;
(P) Stand, skate, sit or walk on areas of water covered with ice;
(Q) Use of mechanical loudspeakers or amplified music, sound or voices except when authorized by the Superintendent, or in connection with use of any amphitheater provided the amplified music or sound is within the prescribed levels governed by state or local law, measured at the property boundary;
(R) Smoke on and around playgrounds or near any youth activity or event; and/or
(S) Use any metal detector on any park property.
(Ord. G-77-657, passed 6-6-1977; Ord. G-83-971, passed 6-6-1983; Ord. G-85-104, passed 10-7-1985; Ord. G-91-260, passed 4-1-1991; Ord. G-03-08, passed 3-3-2003) Penalty, see § 98.99
Statutory reference:
Battery statutes, see I.C. 35-42-2-1, 35-42-2-3 and 35-45-1-3