(A) Title. The name of this section shall be the “Board of Park Commissioners of the Town of Seiling”.
(Prior Code, § 2-2-1)
(B) Composition; appointment; terms. The Board of Park Commissioners shall consist of one Town Trustee and at least four members to be appointed by the town’s Board of Trustees. The terms of office of the members of the Board shall be a period of two years, and all terms shall not expire at the same time.
(Prior Code, § 2-2-2)
(C) Organization.
(1) Officers. The Board shall, when so appointed, elect one of its members as Chair of the Board and another as Vice Chair, and the Board shall elect a member Secretary, and thereafter, such officers shall be chosen at the beginning of each year or as soon thereafter as practical.
(2) Meetings. The Board shall meet as often as necessary to properly perform its functions.
(Prior Code, § 2-2-3)
(D) Powers and duties.
(1) The Board of Park Commissioners shall act in an advisory capacity to the town’s Board of Trustees in connection with the care, management and control of all parks and grounds used for park purposes, including care and management of ballparks known as the “Quadraplex” and all boulevards and parkways now or hereafter owned by or under the control of the town.
(2) The Board shall advise and suggest to the town’s Board of Trustees methods of improving and adorning parks, boulevards and parkways and suggest necessary rules and regulations for the maintenance of order, safety and decency in the parks, both within and without the limits of the town; however, any such rules or regulations shall be enacted by the town’s Board of Trustees. For the purpose of enforcing such rules and regulations, all such parks and property within and without the limits of the town are hereby placed under the police jurisdiction of the town.
(3) Any member of the law enforcement may arrest, without warrant, in any such parks or places, whether within or without the limits of the town, any person who has broken any park rule or committed any violation of such rules or the ordinances of the town in any park, and the Municipal Court of the town shall have jurisdiction of all such violations committed within the limits of the parks.
(Prior Code, § 2-2-4)
(E) Park property.
(1) Definition. The term PARK PROPERTY includes all parks, street parking and all buildings, structures, improvements, seats, benches, fountains, boats, floats, walks, drives, roads, trees, plants, herbages, flowers and other things thereon, and the enclosures of the same, and all trees on streets or thoroughfares, resting places, water stations, playgrounds, ballparks or the like, and all boulevards, parkways, roads or drives between parks.
(2) Conflict of interest of Board members. No member of the Board of Park Commissioners shall be concerned in any contract for profit with the town or any of its departments, either as contractor, subcontractor, bondsman or other party directly or indirectly interested regarding “park property”, as defined in division (E)(1) above.
(Prior Code, § 2-2-5)
(F) Gifts. Real or personal property may be granted, bequeathed, devised or conveyed to the town for the purpose of the improvement or ornamentation of parks or approaches, or for the establishment or maintenance therein of museums, zoological or other gardens, collections of natural history, observatories, monuments, statues, fountains or other works of art, upon such trusts and conditions as may be prescribed by the grantors or divisors thereof, and accepted by the town’s Board of Trustees. All property so devised, granted, bequeathed or conveyed, and the rents, issues, profits and income thereof, shall be subject to the exclusive management, direction and control of the town.
(Prior Code, § 2-2-6)