The following are additional rules pertaining to the use of public tennis courts, use of waters located in city parks and use of public skating rinks.
Subd. 1. Public tennis courts. No person shall:
a. Be allowed on any tennis courts while wearing street shoes;
b. Be allowed to make use of the tennis courts except for playing tennis;
c. Use a tennis court for longer than 60 minutes when other tennis players are waiting to use the tennis court.
Subd. 2. Swimming in park waters.
a. No person shall swim except at designated areas;
b. No person shall swim beyond buoys marking the limits of the swimming area;
c. No child under ten years of age shall be allowed at a designated swimming area without competent supervision;
d. Any person swimming at a public beach when a lifeguard is off duty swims at his or her own risk.
Subd. 3. Public skating rinks.
a. Skating areas shall be posted for “hockey” or “free skating;”
b. No hockey sticks or pucks shall be allowed in the “free skating” area.
Subd. 4. Christmas Lake boat landing.
a. The Christmas Lake boat landing/public access and parking lot (the “Christmas Lake Landing” or the “Landing”) shall be considered a city recreation area, and subject to the general rules and regulations of city park and recreation areas.
b. Boats launched from city property, including the Christmas Lake Landing must meet all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
c. No person shall leave, store, abandon, or otherwise cause to remain any fish house, shelter, dark house, boat, trailer overnight in the Christmas Lake Landing area, except as permitted in paragraph f., or by permission from the city.
d. Parking is prohibited except in designated parking spaces, except during launching and removal of the watercraft from the water, and except while watercraft or trailers are being inspected or decontaminated for aquatic invasive species.
e. Vehicles may only enter the Christmas Lake Landing area if there is a designated parking spot then available in the landing area for the vehicle, or the vehicle and its trailer is towing a trailer. Vehicles without a trailer must first park in a spot intended for vehicles without trailers, if one is available, through they may park in a parking spot intended for vehicles with trailers, if none are available.
f. All vehicles and trailers must park at the landing in a manner that does not obstruct the equipment used to inspect or decontaminate watercraft or trailers for aquatic invasive species or disrupt or make unreasonably difficult the ability to inspect or decontaminate watercraft or trailers, or the ability to launch or retrieve watercraft. Nothing in this section prevents or limits the ability to use, store or leave at the Christmas Lake Landing trailers, mats or other equipment used to inspect or decontaminate boats or trailers for aquatic invasive species at the landing.
g. All bait disposed of at the Christmas Lake Landing shall be disposed of in a manner that complies with all State of Minnesota laws and regulations.
(1987 Code, § 902.05) (Ord. 140, passed 2-14-1983; Am. Ord. 164, passed 3-11-1985; Am. Ord. 586, passed 3-14-2022) Penalty, see § 104.01