(a) The Board shall have the necessary powers and authority to manage and control all public parks, parkways, playgrounds, athletic fields, stadiums, swimming pools, skating rinks, and other recreational facilities of all kinds used as a part of said public park system or as a means of maintaining places of beauty, education, and recreation, promoting the health, property, lives, decency, morality, and other good order of the general public and particularly of the inhabitants of the city; to abate or cause to be abated all nuisances; to regulate or prohibit the selling of any article, foods, wares, or merchandise within said park system so designated; regulate or prohibit the placing of signs, billboards, posters, or advertisements within said park system so designated, 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 prevent vagrants, mendicants, beggars, tramps, prostitutes, or disorderly persons therefrom; to construct, improve, and repair such parks, parkways, playgrounds, athletic fields, stadiums, swimming pools, skating rinks, and other recreational facilities on any grounds controlled by said Board; to cause any public street, road, alley, bridle path, or walkway which is a part of the public park system to be graded, drained, and surfaced; to construct, operate, and maintain all necessary sewers and water lines in connection with said 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 said public park system by the general public as a place or places of beauty, education, entertainment, and recreation.
(b) In order to accomplish the foregoing purposes, said Board shall be empowered to make or promulgate such rules 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, and utilize the cities police staff. The City Attorney shall be the official counsel for said Board and shall advise it on all legal matters.