(a) The Board shall have the necessary powers and authority to manage and control all public parks, parkways, playgrounds, athletic fields, stadiums, swimming pools, marinas and other recreational facilities of all kinds used as a part of the public park system or as a means of maintaining places of beauty, education and recreation, promoting the health, property, decency, morality and good order of the public and particularly of the inhabitants of the municipality and vicinity; to abate or cause to be abated all nuisances; to regulate or prohibit the selling of any articles, goods, wares or merchandise within the park system so designated; to regulate or prohibit the placing of signs, billboards, posters and advertisement within the park system or the grounds immediately adjacent thereto; to have the same kept in good order and free from obstruction for the use and benefit of the public; to restrict and prohibit vagrants, beggars, tramps, prostitutes or disorderly persons therefrom; to construct, improve and repair such parks, parkways, playgrounds, athletic fields, stadiums, swimming pools, skating rinks, marinas and other recreational facilities on any ground controlled by the Board; with the approval of the Common Council, to secure for public use, by lease or otherwise, lands either within or without the City limits as they now exist or may hereafter be enlarged or diminished; to cause any public street, road, alley, bridle path or walkway which is a part of the public park system to be surveyed, drained, graded and surfaced; to construct, operate and maintain all necessary sewers and water lines in connection with the public park system; and to do any and all other things or acts which may in any way be necessary or incidental to the use and enjoyment of the public park system by the general public as a place of beauty, education, entertainment or recreation.
(b) In order to accomplish the foregoing purposes, the Board shall be empowered to make or promulgate such ordinances as may be necessary or incidental thereto; to enforce the same by appropriate proceedings in any proper tribunal of this state, or any county, district or municipality thereof, and to employ such police officers as it may deem proper and necessary. The City Attorney shall be the official counsel for the board and shall advise it on all legal matters, but the board may, in its own discretion, employ other or additional counsel.
(12-1-75)