For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
INDIVIDUAL. Any person, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, federal agency, state agency, city, commission, political subdivision of the state, or any intrastate body.
PARK. A tract of land, great or small, dedicated and maintained for the purposes of pleasure, exercise, amusement, or ornament; a place to which the public at large may resort to for recreation, air, and light. A PARK may include various facilities used by the public generally for recreation, including tennis, pitching horse shoes, croquet, baseball, basketball, golf, walking, horseback riding, picnicking, and general outdoor exercise. Recreational parks are governmental in design because their purpose is to promote and benefit the health and pleasure of the people at large.
PRIVATE LAND HELD FOR PUBLIC USE. Land held and owned by an individual citizen or group, which is allowed by the individual citizen or group to be used as parkland.
(Ord. passed 5-5-2016)