(A) Within the limits of any city park, or designated city open space, it shall be unlawful for any person to do any of the acts hereinafter specified, except as may be otherwise provided:
(1) No motorized vehicles, except for wheelchairs for the disabled, are allowed in any park, trail, or sidewalk, except within designated parking areas.
(2) To damage, move, alter, cut, break, injure, deface, or disturb any tree, shrub, plant, rock, building, cage, pen, 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;
(3) To cut or remove any wood, turf, grass, soil, rock, sand, gravel, or fertilizer;
(4) To make or kindle a fire except in picnic stoves, braziers, fire pits, or designated areas provided for that purpose;
(5) To place, abandon, or leave garbage, cans, bottles, papers, or other refuse in any park except in proper waste receptacles;
(6) To participate or engage in any activity in any park area when such activity will create a danger to the public or may be considered a public nuisance;
(7) To camp overnight, without written permission of the City Administrator or Mayor;
(8) To possess or consume any alcoholic beverage;
(9) To disturb in any manner any picnic, meeting, service, concert, exercise, or exhibition;
(10) To distribute, post, place, or erect any advertising, handbill, circular, bill, notice, paper, or other advertising device;
(11) To sell or offer for sale any food, drinks, confections, merchandise, or services.
(12) To place or dump any trash, refuse, solid waste, grass clippings, leaves, or other objectionable or unsightly matter in any park; and/or
(13) To conduct or participate in any tournament, camp, or organized sporting activity which has not been specifically authorized by the City Administrator or Mayor or which conflicts with a scheduled activity or event authorized by the City Administrator or Mayor.
(14) To carry a firearm, except those persons who are peace officers or are duly licensed by the State of Texas to carry a concealed handgun in accordance with the provisions of the Texas Concealed Handgun License Laws, as amended.
(15) To discharge firearms, fireworks, BB guns, air guns, bow and arrow, sling shots, blow guns, rockets, or paint ball guns.
(16) To swim, bathe, wade in or pollute the water of any fountain, pond, lake or stream.
(17) To remain, stay or loiter in the area of the park between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. inclusive, every day of the week.
(18) To enter into/onto the wooden structure in the Preserve known as the “Barn,” including its loft, stairs, roof; and/or all other structures or areas as restricted by signage.
(19) To park or operate any truck-tractor, trailer, semitrailer, pole-trailer in a park facility parking lot at any time.
(20) For the owner or person with possession or custody of a domestic animal to allow the animal to defecate in the park without immediate removal and disposal of such feces in proper waste receptacles.
(21) To discard, abandon, litter, or break any glass container. No glass beverage containers are permitted in the park.
(22) To advertise, solicit, and/or conduct a business in the park in any manner that either creates a disturbance to other park guests, or displaces other park guests in the park, or involves more than 2 representatives of the business, or which occurs for more than 1 hour in any 3-day period.
(23) To use or operate any gas operated remote controlled airplanes; boat, car, drone or other motorized, model device, including radio-controlled devices such as helicopters; parasail, hang glider or hot air balloons, in any manner that either creates a disturbance to other park guests, or displaces other park guests in the park.
(24) To use or operate mechanical or amplified music, sound or voice.
(B) One or more of the rules above may be waived for good cause, in advance, by the city, upon written request by an applicant.
(Ord. 608, passed 2-27-2007; Am. Ord. 722, passed 1-20-2015) Penalty, see § 97.99