The power to equip, operate, and maintain playgrounds, playfields, gymnasiums, public baths, swimming pools or other indoor or outdoor Recreation Centers within the Village shall be exercised by the Recreation Board. They shall be empowered to secure the orderly and suitable use and enjoyment thereof by the people; also to adopt rules and regulations to promote these purposes. The Board may, by agreement with the Board of Education or with any voluntary community agency, jointly operate or maintain any recreation facility in the furtherance of these purposes. The Board is also empowered to acquire in the name of the Village any donations of land, money or equipment which could be used for recreational purposes. Gifts to the Village of property, real or personal, either absolutely or in trust, for public recreational purposes, shall be accepted only after they shall have been recommended by the Recreation Board to the Council and approved by the Council by resolution subject to the approval of the Council, the Board may execute every trust imposed upon the use of property rights by deed, testament or other conveyance, transferring the title of such property to also empowered, subject to the approval of Council, to buy or lease lands in the name of the Village for recreational purposes within the Village, and, with the approval of Council, to sell or exchange property no longer required for its purposes.
(Ord. 721. Passed 12-12-88.)