(A) Fires.
(1) No person shall start a fire within the park, except small fires for culinary purposes in park grills or privately owned grills or fires in the places or areas designated for such purpose by the city; provided, that the city may at its discretion prohibit fires for limited periods at any location or for any purpose when necessary for the protection of park property.
(2) All fires within the park shall be put out by the person or persons starting or using the same before leaving the immediate vicinity of the fire.
(3) No person shall within the park dump hot ashes or fire onto the grass or plants.
(B) No admittance after park is closed. No person, except city employees in the performance of their official duties, shall be permitted within the park or any part thereof after the same is closed for the night and prior to its opening the following day.
(C) Camping. No person shall establish or maintain any camp or other temporary lodging or sleeping place within the park without the written consent of the city.
(D) Fishing.
(1) Fishing by the use of hooks left unattended, traps, spears, gigs or bows and arrows are prohibited.
(2) Anyone fishing in the park must obey existing the state’s Department of Natural Resources rules and regulations.
(3) All persons, walking or fishing on ice on Ridenour Lake, must use safety ropes tied around them and attached to anchors on the shore.
(4) The use of minnows as live bait for catching of fish at Ridenour Memorial Park is hereby prohibited.
(E) Domestic animals. No person shall bring within any city park, or permit, have or keep within any city park, any dog or other domestic animal destructive to birds or other wildlife. Any person in any city park who is responsible for the entry of a dog or other domestic animal into areas other than automobile parking concourses and walks immediately adjacent thereto, and in such other areas as may be clearly marked by signs bearing the words “Domestic Animals Prohibited in this Area” shall be responsible for the removal of excrement deposited by such animal and its disposal in a sanitary manner. The term SANITARY, as used above, requires an owner, keeper or person having custody of, charge or control of a dog or other-domestic animal to immediately remove all feces deposited by such animal and dispose of same in a sanitary manner. Nothing herein shall be construed as permitting the running of dogs at large. All dogs in those areas where such animals are permitted shall be restrained at all times on adequate leashes of not more than ten feet in length. Furthermore, digging, urinating or defecating by any domestic animal on public property are nuisances punishable by law.
(F) Horses and horseback riding. Horseback riding is prohibited within the park except with permission of the city.
(G) Sledding. Sledding at Ridenour Lake will be permitted only on the side of the dam away from the lake.
(H) Swimming. Swimming within the park is permitted only in a swimming pool or pools operated by the city, and all persons shall abide by the swimming pool rules and regulations posted by the city at any such pool.
(I) Speed limit: parking restricted.
(1) No person shall drive any vehicle in excess of ten mph while within the boundaries of Ridenour Park, excluding Blakes Creek Road.
(2) Proper signs shall be placed in conspicuous places indicating this speed limitation.
(3) Five bump barriers, two inches in height, shall be placed on the road at designated spots.
(4) No parking shall be allowed on the road across the dam, and signs shall be placed accordingly.
(J) Miscellaneous. Other activities may be regulated or prohibited from time to time by the posting of notices to that effect in conspicuous locations around the facility, as determined by the Recreation Director.
(Prior Code, § 927.05) (Ord. 83-17, passed 11-1-1983; Ord. 84-1, passed 1-24-1984; Ord. 87-7, passed 10-20-1987; Ord. 88-1, passed 2-11-1988; Ord. 03-02, passed 2-4-2003) Penalty, see § 94.99