The following activities shall be prohibited upon or within all City parks, greenways and trails within the City:
A. Structures:
1. No person shall cut, break, scratch, mark or in any way damage or deface any building, fence, sign, lamp, flagpole, table, bench, railing, paving, public utility, improvement, facility or other structure, feature or property upon or within any City park or trail.
2. No person shall move any bench, table or other equipment, structure or improvement located within any City park or trail; except, that portable picnic tables may be moved within the designated limits of the picnic area in which they are located.
3. No person shall install upon any City park or trail permanent grills, tables, chairs, benches, volleyball, badminton, tennis, or croquet standards, or horseshoe stakes.
4. Installation of temporary structures, including but not limited to tents, shades, and/or shall be limited to:
a. Structures with dimensions of less than ten (10) feet in length, by ten (10) feet in width, and ten (10) feet in height.
b. be freestanding and weighted; stakes driven into the ground shall not be allowed in city parks
c. Structures shall not be tied or tethered to trees, tables, or other structures.
B. Vegetation: Without specific permission of the City Council, no person shall in any way plant, cut, injure or deface any tree, shrub, or plant upon or within any City park or trail.
C. Refuse: No person shall deposit, place or leave in any City park or trail any paper, rubbish, waste, cans, bottles or refuse of any kind, whether such material is offensive to the senses or injurious to health, except in provided receptacles. Garbage, trash and refuse from activities occurring outside of any City park or trail shall not be deposited within any park or trail or any receptacles within any park or trail.
D. Signs And Advertisements: No person shall post, glue, tack or otherwise display any sign, placard, banner, advertisement or inscription upon any City park or trail.
E. Bathroom Facilities:
1. No person shall fail to cooperate in maintaining bathroom facilities within any City park or trail in a neat, orderly and sanitary condition.
2. No person over the age of six (6) years shall use bathroom facilities designated for members of the opposite sex.
F. Commercial Activities:
1. No person shall sell, rent, lease, or offer for sale, rent or lease, any article, thing, or service whatsoever upon any City park or trail unless associated with a City sponsored event or without prior approval of a park special event permit in accordance with section 8-7-6 of this chapter.
2. No person or organization shall sell any intoxicating liquor or 3.2 malt liquor beverages within any City park or trail without approval of a temporary liquor license by the City Council in accordance with Section title 4, chapter 1 of this code or with a catering license and approval of a park special event permit in accordance with section 8-7-6 of this chapter.
G. Disorderly Conduct: No person shall use threatening, profane, abusive, disorderly, insulting or indecent language or commit any act that is a breach of the public peace upon any City park or trail.
H. Gambling: No person shall gamble upon any City park or trail.
I. Fire: No person shall start, maintain or allow to burn any fire upon any City park or trail except as allowed by section 8-7-5 of this chapter.
J. Nudity; Improper Clothing: No person shall be upon any City park or trail nude, clad solely in any undergarment or otherwise clothed in such a manner as to expose his or her buttocks or male or female genitalia.
K. Animal Traps; Killing Animals: No person shall possess, place, or set, or cause to be placed or set, any trap, trapping device or weapon or shall take or kill any animal within any City park or trail.
L. Weapons: No person shall discharge any firearm or conduct archery activities within any City park or trail, except as allowed by section 8-7-8 of this chapter.
M. Golfing: No person shall engage in golfing practice within any City park or trail.
N. Motor Vehicles: No person shall park, drive or move, or cause to be parked, driven or moved, any form of motorized vehicle over, on or across any portion of a City park or trail other than on a driveway providing access to or through the park or trail or within a facility designated for parking.
O. Watercraft: Except at designated public accesses, no floating device, boat or other form of watercraft or structure shall be placed on, or rolled, dragged or pushed over, or moored to any structure within any City park or trail.
P. Fireworks: No person shall fire, discharge or explode any squib, cracker, firecracker or any other thing containing powder or other explosive material upon any City park or trail.
Q. Swimming: No person shall swim in, bathe in or enter any waters upon any City park or trail, except in areas designated for such activities by the City Council and posted by signs.
R. Smoking And Tobacco: Smoking of any tobacco product or e-cigarette and the use of oral tobacco products or "spit" tobacco is prohibited within any City park.
S. Alcohol:
1. Consumption of alcoholic beverages is prohibited within City parks except by persons twenty one (21) years of age during allowed park hours.
2. Alcohol shall only be consumed from containers made of materials other than glass. (Prior Code §§ 6-7-4, 6-7-7, and 6-7-8; amd. 2018 Code; Ord. 2018-14, 12-10-2018; Ord. 2022-11, 6-13-2022)