City of Pawtucket, RI
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 11 Boards and Commissions
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Article IV Board of Park Commissioners
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administration of Government
- Ch 7 Bills and Claims
- Ch 11 Boards and Commissions
- Ch 11 Art IV Board of Park Commissioners
- § 11-21 Creation; jurisdiction.
- § 11-22 Membership; officers.
- § 11-23 Terms of office.
- § 11-24 Powers and duties.
- Ch 22 Committees
- Ch 26 Courts
- Ch 30 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 35 Expenditures
- Ch 40 Funds
- Ch 50 Officers and Employees
- Ch 59 Pensions
- Ch 63 Personnel Policies
- Ch 76 Real Property Transactions
- Ch 80 Records
- Ch 84 Referenda Questions
- Ch 88 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 90 Collective Bargaining Agreements
- Ch 92 Training Schools
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 100 Air Pollution
- Ch 104 Alarm Systems
- Ch 108 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 112 Amusements
- Ch 116 Animals
- Ch 124 Bicycles
- Ch 128 Bingo
- Ch 130 Body Works Services
- Ch 132 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 136 Building Construction
- Ch 147 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 151 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 156 Business Deliveries
- Ch 158 Business Registration
- Ch 162 Cemeteries
- Ch 167 Circuses and Carnivals
- Ch 173 Curfew
- Ch 176 Deeds, Recording of
- Ch 182 Drugs
- Ch 186 Electrical Standards
- Ch 193 Entertainment
- Ch 198 Excavations
- Ch 200 Exterior Lighting
- Ch 202 Fees
- Ch 206 Firearms
- Ch 208 Fire Lanes
- Ch 210 Fire Prevention
- Ch 218 Food Establishments
- Ch 222 Fortune Telling
- Ch 231 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 235 Heating Equipment
- Ch 243 HIV Testing
- Ch 247 Housing Standards
- Ch 251 Secondhand Shops, Junkyards, Junk Dealers and Metal Recyclers
- Ch 260 Licensing
- Ch 263 Littering
- Ch 266 Loitering
- Ch 274 Mechanical Standards
- Ch 282 Newspapers and Magazines
- Ch 286 Noise
- Ch 288 Nonresidential Structures
- Ch 290 Nuisances
- Ch 293 P.T.E. Program
- Ch 294 Parks and Playgrounds
- Ch 298 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 302 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 306 Plumbing
- Ch 313 Poles and Wires
- Ch 317 Private Detectives
- Ch 319 Property Classification
- Ch 321 Refrigerators, Abandoned
- Ch 325 Rental Property
- Ch 329 Sales, Special
- Ch 335 Sewers
- Ch 341 (Reserved)
- Ch 345 Smoking
- Ch 347 Solid Waste
- Ch 351 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 355 Subsidized Housing
- Ch 360 Tattoo Parlors
- Ch 363 Taxation
- Ch 364 Telecommunications
- Ch 365 Tobacco and Snuff
- Ch 367 Towing
- Ch 371 Trees
- Ch 375 Utility Rights-Of-Way
- Ch 379 Vehicle Repair Shops
- Ch 383 Vehicles, Abandoned and Nonoperational
- Ch 388 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 392 Vehicles, Removal of
- Ch 396 Vending Machine Services
- Ch 401 Water
- Ch 410 Zoning
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Approved 5-17-1991 as Ch. No. 2196]
There shall be a Board of Park Commissioners
which shall have advisory jurisdiction over all green spaces of the
city and all parks, including Slater Park.
A.
The Board shall consist of nine members appointed
by the Mayor with the approval of a majority of the members of the
City Council. The Board shall have a Chairperson and may have a Vice
Chairperson, Secretary and Treasurer.
B.
The members of the Board as soon as may be after their
appointment and qualification shall elect one of their appointed members
as Chairperson. Annually at its first meeting following the qualifications
of the member appointed in that year to said Board, and whenever there
shall be a vacancy in the chair of said Board, the members thereof
shall elect one of their appointed members as Chairperson.
Following the passage of this article, there
shall be appointed nine members to the Board of Park Commissioners;
three shall each serve a term of one year, three shall each serve
a term of two years and three shall each serve a term of three years.
Any subsequent appointment in accord herein shall be for a term of
three years.
The Board shall have the following advisory
powers and duties:
A.
Plan the use of areas and facilities under its jurisdiction.
B.
Draft policies, rules and regulations governing access
to and use of the areas and facilities under its charge.
C.
Prepare and revise annually a program of capital improvements
for areas and facilities under its jurisdiction, in the following
five years, for submittal to the City Planning Commission, no later
than February 1 of each year.
D.
Draft and prepare, for approval by the City Council,
such rules and regulations for the proper conduct of all activities
within its jurisdiction.
E.
Do all acts consistent with this article necessary
and proper for the care, management, improvement, maintenance and
protection of the public parks under its jurisdiction.
F.
Report their findings to the City Council.
[Added 11-14-1991 by Ch. No. 2232]
G.
Submit an annual report to the City Council on the
state of the parks and open spaces within the city by December 31
of each year.
[Added 2-10-1994 by Ch. No. 2331]
