(A) Speed. It shall be unlawful to operate or drive any motor vehicle within any park or recreation area at a speed in excess of that speed posted on the particular road, trail, or pathway within the park.
(B) Locations. No motor vehicles may be driven at any place within a park, other than in those areas specifically designated and posted as allowing such vehicles. This prohibition shall not apply, however, to motorized or self-propelled equipment or emergency vehicles used within the park by officers or employees of the city in the performance of their official duties.
(C) Motor vehicles specified and defined. MOTOR VEHICLES include, but are not limited to, automobiles, trucks, off-road vehicles, motorcycles, motorbikes, snowmobiles, and any other self-propelled mechanical vehicles.
(D) Manner of operation. No motor vehicles, even though operated within the speed permitted on the places provided for such vehicles, shall be operated in a careless or reckless manner to such an extent that such use will endanger the peace, health, and safety of any other person within the park area; nor shall any vehicle be operated in such a manner as to cause damage to any park property or facilities.
(E) Parking restrictions.
(1) The city’s Mayor, or his or her designees (“authorized person”), is hereby authorized to restrict parking within city parks when necessary to provide adequate access, unrestricted ingress and egress, and to assure that available parking within the park is preserved for persons using the park at any given time.
(2) Areas designated for no parking, handicapped parking, limited parking, or limited time parking shall be designated by signs approved by an authorized person, and shall give notice of the restrictions required.
(3) Overnight parking and/or camping under certain circumstances, where, in the sole discretion of the Mayor, such use:
(a) Will not be deleterious to the main use of the park; and
(b) Demonstrates a reasonable public or community purpose, such as, but not limited to, scout camp outs, community activities, functions which have been approved or sanctioned by the City Council for use of the park, and the like.
(4) It shall be unlawful for any motor vehicle to be left unattended or parked within any area of a city park parking lot where such parking does not comply with restrictions or requirements posted by the city. Any such vehicle is hereby declared to be a nuisance and may be removed at the direction of the Mayor, or his or her designee.
(5) It shall be unlawful to park a motor vehicle in a parking place for a period of time longer than the permitted parking time. More than one citation or notice of infraction may be issued during a period of continuous violation. (Example: The owner of a motor vehicle left for five continuous hours in a maximum two-hour parking area may receive two citations or notices of infraction.)
(Prior Code, § 13.14.040) (Ord. 5-95, passed 4-19-1995; Ord. 11-2003, passed 8-20-2003) Penalty, see § 93.99