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Title 18: Parks
Chapter 1: Department of Parks and Recreation
§ 18-101 Department of parks and recreation; commissioner.
§ 18-102 Uniform force.
§ 18-103 Trees and vegetation; definitions.
§ 18-104 Trees and vegetation; jurisdiction.
§ 18-105 Trees under private or public ownership; care and cultivation.
§ 18-105.1 Trees, bushes and other vegetation obstructing a traffic signal or device.
§ 18-106 Tree planting; permission of commissioner of transportation.
§ 18-107 Replacement of trees.
§ 18-108 Public beaches; jurisdiction.
§ 18-108.1 Prohibitions on beaches.
§ 18-108.2 Vehicles prohibited on boardwalks.
§ 18-109 Setbacks along boardwalks and beaches.
§ 18-110 Public beaches; life-saving apparatus.
§ 18-111 Gifts of real and personal property.
§ 18-112 Restrictions on Eastern parkway, etc.
§ 18-113 Restrictions on Ocean parkway.
§ 18-114 Coney island oceanarium.
§ 18-115 Richmondtown exhibit.
§ 18-116 Garage in Lincoln Square Performing Arts Center.
§ 18-117 Perkins arboretum.
§ 18-118 Renting of stadium in Flushing Meadow park; exemption from down payment requirements.
§ 18-119 Queens Zoological and Botanical Gardens.
§ 18-120 Hall of science.
§ 18-121 High Rock Park Nature Conservation Center.
§ 18-122 Bicycle and tricycle areas in parks.
§ 18-123 Brooklyn Children's Museum in Brower Park.
§ 18-124 Art museum.
§ 18-125 Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge and Sanctuary.
§ 18-126 Hunter Island Marine Zoology and Geology Sanctuary.
§ 18-127 Central Park Zoo; Flushing Meadow Zoo; Prospect Park Zoo.
§ 18-128 Renting of tennis stadium and center in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
§ 18-128.1 Snug Harbor.
§ 18-128.2 Bryant Park.
§ 18-129 Fines for unlawful cutting of trees on department property.
§ 18-130 Ward's and Randall's islands; development into park.
§ 18-131 Posting of signs.
§ 18-132 Displaying a POW/MIA flag over public property.
§ 18-133 Adopt-a-park program.
§ 18-134 Annual report on non-governmental funding for parks.
§ 18-135 Requiring signage warning of heat dangers of playground equipment.
§ 18-136 Advisory committee for new surfacing materials.
§ 18-137 Representation on park conservancies.
§ 18-138 Locations of concessions in parks.
§ 18-139 Notification prior to planting of trees.
§ 18-140 Stormwater retention planting manual.
§ 18-141 Native biodiversity planting practices.
§ 18-142 Tree removal protocol.
§ 18-143 Report on parks department facilities.
§ 18-144 Annual report on park maintenance.
§ 18-145 Reporting on capital project expenditures in parks.
§ 18-146 Prohibitions in parks.
§ 18-147 Destruction of trees and property.
§ 18-148 Notification of tree removal.
§ 18-148.1 Cleaning playground equipment after pesticide exposure.
§ 18-149 Discounted recreation center fees.
§ 18-150 Defibrillators at youth baseball games and youth softball games and practices in parks.
§ 18-151 Street tree maintenance information posted online.
§ 18-152 Pedestrian access to park facilities.
§ 18-153 Notice of changes to capital projects.
§ 18-154 Bathing season for beaches and pools.
§ 18-155 Installation of bollards.
§ 18-156 Soil lead testing.
§ 18-157 Tree inspections and health assessments.
§ 18-158 Park and playground inspections.
§ 18-159 Diaper changing accommodations.
§ 18-160 Water safety instruction provided at no cost.
§ 18-161 Swimming pool assessment and location survey.
§ 18-162 Swimming lessons at indoor pools.
§ 18-163 Report on staffing and training at beaches and pools.
§ 18-164 Urban forest plan.
§ 18-165 Compost facilities in parks.
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§ 18-109 Setbacks along boardwalks and beaches.
   a.   Any building, whether new or altered, abutting on any boardwalk or public beach that has or is to have an open front or fronts, or in which business is or is intended to be done through windows or doorways, shall have and maintain an adequate setback satisfactory to the commissioner of buildings, such setback to be not less than four feet.
   b.   Any person violating any of the provisions of this section, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed ten dollars, or by imprisonment, not to exceed ten days, or by both.
   c.   This section shall not prevent or make unlawful the installation of footings for temporary barriers or shields in accordance with section 3202.1.1.1 of the New York city building code or temporary flood shields, stairs or ramps in accordance with section 3202.4.3 of the New York city building code.
§ 18-110 Public beaches; life-saving apparatus.
The commissioner may furnish, erect and maintain on any public beach any life-saving apparatus, appliances and paraphernalia, for the protection and safety of bathers which any law, rule or regulation now or hereafter may require keepers of bathing establishments along the seashore to furnish and maintain. During such period as the commissioner shall furnish and maintain the same, the duty of keepers of bathing establishments on, near or along the inshore line of any such public beach to do so shall be suspended. If for any period the commissioner shall not furnish and maintain the same such commissioner shall, under such rules and regulations as he or she may establish therefor, issue permits to such keepers to furnish, erect and maintain the same.
§ 18-111 Gifts of real and personal property.
   a.   Gifts of real and personal property, except such surplus animals and duplicate specimens as the commissioner may deem it judicious to dispose of by sale or otherwise, shall be forever properly protected, preserved and arranged for public use and enjoyment.
   b.   The commissioner, with his or her annual report, shall make a statement of the condition of all the gifts, devises and bequests of the previous year, and of the names of the persons making the same.
§ 18-112 Restrictions on Eastern parkway, etc.
   a.   It shall be unlawful for buildings or other erections, except porches, piazzas, fences, fountains and statuary to remain or at any time to be placed upon any of the lots fronting upon Eastern parkway, from Washington avenue easterly to the extension of Eastern parkway, or upon the extension of Eastern parkway to Bushwick avenue, within thirty feet from the line or sides of such streets respectively.
   b.   The intervening spaces of land on each side of Eastern parkway and the Eastern parkway extension shall be used only for court-yards, and may be planted with trees and shrubbery, and may be otherwise ornamented at the discretion of the respective owners or occupants thereof.
   c.   Any building standing on April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred three, or that may have been or may be erected thereafter, on any lot fronting or to front on either Union street or Lincoln place, easterly from New York avenue to the former city line of Brooklyn, shall never be used for any purpose other than a dwelling house, church, chapel or school house, stable, carriage house, conservatory for plants or a green house; but no livery or railway stable or carhouse shall at any time be erected or maintained upon any of such lots.
   d.   It shall be unlawful to erect, establish or carry on, in any manner whatever, upon any lot fronting upon Eastern parkway or its extension to Bushwick avenue, or upon any lot bounded by either Union street or Lincoln place, easterly from New York avenue to the former city line of Brooklyn, or upon the streets intersecting Eastern parkway between St. Johns Place and President street, any slaughter-house, tallow chandlery, furnace, foundry, nail or other factory, or any manufactory for making starch, glue, varnish, vitriol, oil or gas, or for tanning, dressing, repairing or keeping skins, hides or leather, or any distillery, brewery or sugar bakery, lime kiln, railway or other stable, or depot, or any other manufactory, trade, business or calling, which may be in anywise dangerous, obnoxious or offensive to the neighboring inhabitants.
§ 18-113 Restrictions on Ocean parkway.
   a.   It shall be unlawful for buildings or other erections, except porches, piazzas, fences, fountains and statuary, to remain or at any time to be placed upon Ocean parkway within thirty feet from the outside lines thereof. In addition thereto, such space on each side of such parkway shall be used only for courtyards, and may be planted with trees and shrubbery, and may be otherwise ornamented at the discretion of the respective owners or occupants thereof. Such use and ornamentation shall be under the direction of the department.
   b.   It shall be unlawful to erect, establish or carry on, in any manner whatever, upon any lot fronting upon Ocean parkway, any slaughter-house, tallow chandlery, furnace, foundry, nail or other factory, or any manufactory for making starch, glue, varnish, vitriol, oil or gas, or for tanning, dressing, repairing or keeping skins, hides or leather, or any distillery, brewery or sugar bakery, lime kiln, railway or other stable, or depot, or any other manufactory, trade, business or calling, which may be in anywise dangerous, obnoxious or offensive to the neighboring inhabitants.
   c.   This section shall not prevent or make unlawful the installation of footings for temporary barriers or shields in accordance with section 3202.1.1.1 of the New York city building code or temporary flood shields, stairs or ramps in accordance with section 3202.4.3 of the New York city building code.
§ 18-114 Coney island oceanarium.
The commissioner may enter into an agreement with the New York Zoological Society for the operation and maintenance by such New York Zoological Society of certain premises and approaches thereto to be constructed at Coney Island in the borough of Brooklyn, to be known as the oceanarium, and for the adequate keeping, maintenance, extension, preservation, management, operation and exhibition by such New York Zoological Society of collections of aquatic animals and plants therein and for the furnishing by such New York Zoological Society of opportunities for study, research and publication in connection with such collections. Such contract shall become effective only upon the approval of the mayor. Upon the making of such contract, the city may annually, in its discretion, appropriate to the said New York Zoological Society such sum or sums as it may determine for the maintenance and support of the said oceanarium and the activities of the said New York Zoological Society in connection therewith.
§ 18-115 Richmondtown exhibit.
   a.   The commissioner may enter into an agreement with the Staten Island Historical Society for the further restoration, operation, maintenance and management of the historical village known as Richmondtown, located at Richmondtown in the borough of Richmond, and for the operation, maintenance and exhibition by such Staten Island Historical Society of the group of historical buildings and museums therein containing exhibits portraying community life on Staten Island from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries. Such contract shall become effective only upon the approval of the mayor.
   b.   Upon the making of such contract, the city may annually, in its discretion, appropriate to the said Staten Island Historical Society such sums as it may determine for the further restoration, care and maintenance of the said historical village of Richmondtown.
   c.   The building or buildings and grounds so to be operated by the Staten Island Historical Society shall be open to the public with or without admission fee as shall be authorized by the board of directors of said Staten Island Historical Society with the consent and approval of the commissioner.
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