(A) The Board of Park and Recreation Commissioners shall have the necessary powers and authority to manage and control all public parks, parkways, playgrounds, athletic fields, stadiums, swimming pools, skating rinks, and other recreational facilities of all kinds used as a part of the public park and recreation systems or as a means of maintaining places of beauty, education, and recreation, promoting the health, property, lives, decency, morality, and good order of the general public, and particularly of the inhabitants of this city and vicinity; to abate or cause to be abated all nuisances; to regulate or prohibit the selling of any article, goods, wares, or merchandise within the park and recreation systems so designated; to regulate or prohibit the placing of signs, billboards, posters, and advertisements within the park and recreation systems as so designated, or the grounds immediately adjacent thereto; to have the same kept in good order and free from obstruction for the use and benefit of the public; to restrict and prohibit vagrants, mendicants, beggars, tramps, prostitutes, or disorderly persons therefrom; to construct, improve, and repair such parks, parkways, playgrounds, athletic fields, stadiums, swimming pools, skating rinks, and other recreational facilities, on any grounds controlled by the Board; to acquire for public use by lease or otherwise lands either within or without the limits of the city; as to cause any public street, road, alley, bridle path, or walkway which is a part of the public park and recreation systems to be graded, drained, and surfaced; to construct, operate, and maintain all necessary sewers and water lines in connection with the public park and recreation systems; and to do any and all other things or acts which may in anyway be necessary or incidental to the use and enjoyment of said public park system by the general public as a place of beauty, education, entertainment, and recreation.
(B) In order to accomplish the foregoing purposes, the Board of Park and Recreation Commissioners is hereby empowered and authorized to promulgate, and amend from time to time, such rules and regulations as may be necessary, appropriate, convenient, or incidental thereto; and after codification of such rules and regulations, or any amendments thereto, by ordinance of the Common Council which may provide penalties for a violation thereof, which codification is hereby authorized to enforce the same by appropriate proceedings in any proper tribunal of this state, or any county, district, or municipality thereof; and to employ such police officers as it shall deem proper and necessary. The City Attorney shall be the official counsel for the Board and shall advise it on all legal matters, but the Board may, in its own discretion, employ other or additional counsel.
(Prior Code, § 19-6)