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The authority of the Chief of Police and other police officers of the city shall extend to and cover any property described as a public park, and the police officers shall have the same jurisdiction to enforce the ordinances of the city within the park or within one mile of the outer boundary of the park for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of the community and of enforcing the ordinances and resolutions of the city relating thereto.
(Prior Code, § 12.24.040)
Any person who shall deface, mar, injure, break into, or, in any way, interfere with any house, building, or other property situated in any park belonging to the city shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Prior Code, § 12.24.020) Penalty, see § 10.99
Any person who shall climb any tree, cut, break, pluck, root up, or in any way disturb any trees, flowers, shrubs, plants, or bulbs planted or growing in any public park or other public ground of the city shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Prior Code, § 12.24.030) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) Rubbish. It is unlawful for any person to throw or deposit or cause to be thrown or deposited any paper, tin cans, rubbish, or offal of any kind in any such park or in or about any place set apart for swimming or body of water or stream within or adjoining any park under the control of the Parks Department of the city.
(Prior Code, § 12.24.050)
(B) Animals or vehicles. It is unlawful for any person to lead or drive any horses or other animals or any vehicle or motor vehicle over or upon any of the grass plots or planting space of any public park except at such places as may be provided for the parking of vehicles.
(Prior Code, § 12.24.060)
(C) Selling merchandise. It is unlawful for any person to do any peddling or to sell or offer for sale any goods, wares, or merchandise in any of the public parks of the city unless such person has been granted permission for such purpose by the Parks Department.
(Prior Code, § 12.24.070)
(D) Disorderly conduct. It is unlawful for any person to be guilty of disorderly, unchaste, or lewd conduct or habitual loafing or sleeping on the ground or benches or to engage in any quarrel or fight or make or assist in making any disorderly noise or riot or disturbance of the peace within the limits of any park under the control of the Parks Department of the city.
(Prior Code, § 12.24.080)
Penalty, see § 10.99