For the conduct of persons using or frequenting the public parks of Union, Oregon, the following rules and regulations to be observed and enforced within said public parks are hereby established:
(A) Fire. No person shall build any fire within public parks except in the barbeques provided in the established picnic areas. No fire for barbeque use shall be left unattended and every fire shall be extinguished before its user leaves the park area.
(B) Animals. No person shall in any manner pursue, kill, injure, hunt or molest any bird or animal within any park.
(C) Dogs. No person shall permit any dog to run at large within any public park, and all dogs shall be kept in control on a leash at all times. The person in charge of the dog shall pick up the feces left by the dog. Owners of dogs or other animals damaging or destroying park property shall be liable for the full value of the property damaged or destroyed, in addition to impounding fees and the penalty imposed for violation of this ordinance.
(D) Motor vehicles. No motor vehicle, trailers, or motorcycles shall be operated, stopped, parked or left standing any place in a public park except on roads and parking areas provided therefore, except during special occasions or events.
(E) Hours. No person shall use or frequent the Union City Park between the hours of dusk to dawn. No person shall frequent or park a vehicle in the park between the hours of dusk to dawn, except during special occasions or events as may be authorized by the city.
(F) Waste material. No person shall scatter, discard or dispose of any garbage, bottles, broken glass, tin cans, or paper, litter or waste materials of any kind except in receptacles provided therefore. It shall be unlawful for any person to haul household garbage, rubbish or trash to the city park and deposit the same in the park or on public property.
(G) Sanitation. No person shall blow, spread, or place any nasal or other bodily discharge, or urinate or defecate within parks excepting directly into the particular fixture provided for that purpose.
(H) Plants, structures. No unauthorized person shall pick, mutilate, dig or remove from the park any plant or plants or in any way deface or mutilate, burn, destroy, defile or remove any railing, building, seat, fence, park facility, decorative item, any other structure or tree within the park or remove from the park any logs or wood.
(I) Soil, rocks. No unauthorized person shall dig, excavate, blast, quarry or remove any soil, rock, stones or other substance from the park and no person shall assist in said removal.
(J) Signs. No unauthorized person shall erect signs, markers or inscriptions of any type within the limits of the city park without a specific permit from the city.
(K) Soliciting. No person while in a city park may operate a concession, either fixed or mobile, or engage in the business of soliciting, selling or peddling any liquids, or edibles for human consumption, or merchandise, or distribute circulars, or hawk, peddle or vend any goods, wares or merchandise, or set up or use a public address system in the city park without a specific written permit from the city.
(L) Public nuisance. No person shall use abusive, threatening, boisterous, vile, obscene or indecent language, or gestures in the park, nor shall any person cause, attempt to cause, or bring about any public nuisance. Drunken and/or disorderly conduct shall be deemed a public nuisance and shall be cause for expulsion from the park.
(M) Public drinking fountains. No person shall willfully mark, scratch, disfigure, deface or in any manner injure any public drinking fountain in the city, or throw, place or deposit in any cup or basin of same any cigar or cigarette stub, or any other matter of refuse whatever.
(N) Permits required. Permits shall be required for the assembly of persons in the city park to which the general public is invited. The city may require the person, persons, club group, organization, corporation to furnish police, fire, medical, sanitary and clean-up services. Permits and insurance shall also be required for music, art, religious and other shows and/or displays in the city park.
(O) Skateboards, bicycles, scooters. The operation or use of skateboards, bicycles or scooters is prohibited within the city park except on walking or bike paths.
(P) No livestock or horses. Livestock or horses in the city park shall be prohibited.
(Q) Drugs or alcohol. Alcohol or drugs shall be prohibited in the city park with the exception of alcohol for special events that have been permitted through the city.
(R) Sexual activity. There shall be no lewd activity in the city park.
(Ord. 546, passed 5-14-2012; Ord. 547, passed 4-13-2015) Penalty, see § 96.99