(A) Public use hours. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the terms of any applicable permit issued by the village or the Department, or in connection with a Department administered special event, Department property or facilities located outdoors shall be open to the public from sunrise in the morning until dusk in the evening of that same day and outdoor Department property shall be closed to the public from dusk each day until sunrise the following day, provided, however, that outdoor Department property or facilities with outdoor lighting intended to facilitate nighttime use thereof shall remain open until ten minutes after the lighting therefor has been turned off, or reduced to a level below the level required for conducting activities upon or using such property or facilities. The Department shall determine the hour at which outdoor lighting shall be turned off or reduced in intensity. The Department may periodically revise these hours to meet the needs for public use of Department property. Department property consisting of buildings or indoor facilities will be open at hours established by the Director. The Department may close one or more Department parks, properties, buildings, or facilities or any area thereof to the public at any time and for any interval of time, either temporarily or at regular intervals, and either entirely or merely to certain uses, as deemed advisable and in the best interest of the public and the Department.
(B) Prohibition of outside plants, etc. No person shall bring into or plant or cultivate upon Department property any tree, shrub, or plant, or portion thereof, except by written authorization of the Department, or in connection with any Department sponsored program or activity (e.g., Community Garden).
(C) Camping. No person shall place, erect, or use any hammock, swing, tent, sleeping shelter or any other type of temporary or permanent camping equipment or otherwise camp in any manner, on Department property. The foregoing shall not prohibit the use of temporary canopies or shelters used for protection from sun or inclement weather for the benefit of spectators or participants in programs or events conducted by the Department, or for the use of tents for camping in programs otherwise authorized or approved by the Department, nor shall it prohibit the use of tents or canopies not more than 10' by 10' in size in connection with the use by rental or permit of a specific designated area of Department property.
(D) Trespass to Department property. Except as otherwise allowed by this chapter or the Village Code of Ordinances, no person shall:
(1) Enter or remain in any of Department property or area thereof where persons are prohibited by the Department from entering by sign or other notice, including written notice delivered to an individual person and also including areas thereof the use of which is restricted to persons of the opposite gender except as otherwise specifically provided in these sections;
(2) Enter or remain in any Department property at any time when it is closed to the public;
(3) Climb, walk or sit upon any sign, wall, tree or fence under the control of the Department;
(4) Enter or remain upon any lawn, grass plot, planted area, tree, shrub, monument, fountain, sculpture or structure where access is prohibited by signs or other notice or where access is restricted by fence or other physical barrier;
(5) Enter any Department property that is reserved or scheduled for a specific group or activity, unless such person is invited by the individual or group responsible for such activity or unless such person is a registered and authorized participant or member thereof and has paid any applicable admission and/or registration fees due and owing to the Department; or
(6) Enter or remain upon any Department property, in any case where the village or the Department has revoked, terminated, forfeited or suspended the privileges of such person to use, enter or remain upon Department property or any area thereof as provided for in this chapter.
(E) Damage to Department property. Except as otherwise allowed by this chapter or the Village Code of Ordinances, no person shall while in or upon Department property:
(1) Deface, disfigure, break, cut, tamper with or displace or remove in or from any Department property or building or other part thereof, any table, bench, fireplace, coping, lamp post, fence, wall, signage, paving or paving material, water line or other public utility or parts or appurtenances thereof, or place or attach any sign, notice or placard whether temporary or permanent on any equipment, facilities or other Department property or appurtenances whatsoever, either real or personal;
(2) Destroy, cut, break, injure, disturb, sever from the ground or remove any sod, soil, earth, rock, stone, timber, wood, material, or growing thing including but not limited to any plant, flower, flower bed, shrub, tree, growth, or any branch, stem, fruit, or leaf thereof; bring into or have in his/her possession in or on Department property any tool or instrument intended to be used for the cutting thereof, or any garden or agricultural implements or tools which could be used for the removal thereof, other than in connection with a Department authorized program or activity (e.g., Community Garden);
(3) Set fire to any trees, shrubs, plants, flowers, grass, plant growth or living timber, or allow any fire upon land to extend into Department property;
(4) Cut, break or in any way injure, deface, destroy or alter any building, fence, monument, sculpture, bridge, or other structure or property contained therein;
(5) Operate or drive any motor car, automobile or vehicle of any kind in or on Department property in places other than roadways or in such a manner as to cause the same to collide with, run against, strike or cause to strike, injure, deface or damage any Department property or appurtenance of any kind;
(6) Fasten any animal or attach any rope, sign, handbill or other things to any tree or shrub or to any protective device around any tree or shrub growing in or on the Department property;
(7) Allow any animal under the person's ownership or temporary care to injure or deface any tree, plant, shrub, lawn or landscaped area in any manner whatsoever. An animal is under a person's temporary care if the animal was brought upon Department property by the person or by a minor under the person's temporary or permanent care;
(8) Fasten any bicycle, motorcycle, moped or other vehicle to or leave the same standing so as to injure any tree, shrub, lawn or landscaped area;
(9) Deface, destroy, cover or otherwise make unreadable any traffic warning or prohibitory sign or symbol in or on Department property;
(10) Mark, carve, bend, cut, paint, deface, breakdown, destroy, damage, alter, change, sever, uproot, excavate or otherwise remove, or attach or suspend any rope, wire or other material or contrivance to or from any Department property; or
(11) Depositing, leaving, placing or causing any garbage, refuse, litter or other unwanted or discarded matter to remain on any Department property excluding the placement of the same into appropriate receptacles provided by the Department for the collection of the same. In the event that any such receptacles provided by the Department for the collection of garbage, refuse or other discarded matter shall be incapable of receiving further deposits thereof, all persons possessing the same or having generated the same during their use of Department property shall be required to remove the same from the Department property for proper and otherwise lawful disposal. No person shall bring to any Department property any garbage, refuse or other discarded matter not generated upon Department property in connection with the lawful use thereof.
(F) Use of restrooms and locker rooms. All use of restrooms and locker rooms provided or made available by the Department shall be used in accordance with the following regulations:
(1) Every person shall cooperate in maintaining restrooms, washrooms and locker rooms in a neat and sanitary condition;
(2) No person shall deposit objects of any kind other than toilet paper in the toilets or plumbing fixtures of a restroom, washroom facility or locker room;
(3) No person shall use any camera, video recorder or other device to record or transmit visual image(s) in or from any rest room, washroom or locker room of the Department;
(4) Urinate or defecate upon any Department property other than in permanent or temporary toilet facilities provided by the Department for such purposes; and
(5) No person shall use any electronic, mechanical, manual, electric, digital, voltaic or other device, instrument or means capable of recording, producing, duplicating, reproducing, storing, copying, transmitting or displaying any visual, video, photographic, electronic, digital, recorded, or other visual image, picture, or representation, including but not limited to any camera, camcorder, or videotaping device, or any cell phone of any type or kind regardless of its capacity or lack thereof to produce a visual image, in any restroom, locker room, lavatory, bathroom, shower facility, or dressing room, in any building owned, leased to, or under the control of the Department.
(Ord. 21-1693, passed 4-7-21)