A. Except for the issuance of a special use permit to a person, persons and/or entity stating otherwise: All county parks and county park facilities (including, but not limited to bathrooms, playgrounds, picnic areas, gazebos, patios, tables, benches, bleachers, dugouts, sports fields, concession and vendor areas, vehicles, trailers, parking areas, storage containers and sheds, stables and livestock areas, garden areas, water features, pools, ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, creeks, designated areas for dogs and/or other animals; and, any and all other developed or undeveloped areas, natural objects, habitat or structures, whether open, locked or unlocked) within a county park, will be closed to public use on a daily basis (including weekdays, weekends and holidays) between the hours of ten o'clock (10:00) P.M. and five o'clock (5:00) A.M. (of the succeeding day).
B. Special use permits shall only be approved and issued by the county public works director or his/her designee; and, only upon completion and submittal of a written application for the special use permit to the county public works director or his/her designee. Upon demand, special use permits issued by the county public works director or his/her designee shall be displayed to any law enforcement officer on official business.
C. Except as provided above, in subsection A of this chapter, it is unlawful for any person of any age to be present within a county park between the hours of ten o'clock (10:00) P.M. and five o'clock (5:00) A.M., except for county employees and/or law enforcement officers on official business.
D. The daily hours designated for closure of a county park to public use (the hours of ten o'clock (10:00) P.M. and five o'clock (5:00) A.M.) shall be posted (by signs) in conspicuous places at each county park; such as, but not limited to, areas commonly used for public ingress and egress, intervals of such a distance as is necessary to ensure that at least one such sign would be within the direct line of sight of a person standing next to another such sign, but at intervals of not more than five hundred feet (500'); and, at each corner of the county park, upon or near the boundary. (Ord. 522, 2021)