[HISTORY: Derived from Chapter 41 of the
1975 Compilation, as amended through 1996. Subsequent amendments noted
where applicable.]
Generally. No motor vehicle, bicycle or other
vehicle of any description shall be driven, propelled, parked or left
standing in any public park within the City, except upon, along and
over the driveways, parkways and parking places constructed and established
for that purpose by the Board of Parks and Recreation. No vehicle
shall be driven at a speed in excess of 15 miles per hour in a public
park within the City.
No person shall stand or park any motor vehicle
on the west side of the road which extends from Gas Avenue to Neahwa
Place through Neahwa Park following the contour of the baseball park
during any public function in the baseball park.
A.
Loitering; parking. No person shall loiter or park
any motor vehicle in any public park in the City of Oneonta between
the hours of 10:30 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
B.
Curfew. No person under the age of 16 years shall
loiter or remain in any public park of the City of Oneonta between
the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. unless accompanied by his or
her parents, guardian or guardians.
C.
Exceptions. Nothing in the section shall prohibit
regularly organized gatherings for which the Board of Parks and Recreation
has granted special permission nor shall this section apply to persons
who are engaged in recreational activities authorized or supervised
by the Board of Parks and Recreation.
No person shall burn or cause to be burned any
substance or material upon lands within the public parks of the City,
except that it shall not be unlawful to start and maintain fires in
pits or other receptacles constructed and provided by the Board of
Parks and Recreation for such purposes.
[Added 12-5-2017 by Ord.
No. 13-2017; amended 12-7-2021 by Ord. No. 6-2021]
A.
No person shall smoke or use any tobacco product, cannabis product
or other nicotine or cannabis delivery system within any public park
in the City of Oneonta, on any City property, or in any City property.
This prohibition against the smoking of tobacco and cannabis products
includes Wilber Park, Neahwa Park, Catella Park, Susquehanna River
Park, Swart-Wilcox Historic Park, the Susquehanna Greenway, New Island,
and includes their associated sporting fields, tennis courts, swimming
pools and/or playgrounds, picnic facilities, hiking trails, wooded
areas, lawn areas, or parking lots. This prohibition shall also apply
to Muller Plaza, Maple Park, Miller Park, and Curtis Park.
B.
For purposes of this section, to smoke and/or utilize any tobacco
or cannabis products shall mean to burn a lighted cigar, cigarette
or pipe, and/or to use any other substance which contains tobacco
and/or cannabis and also includes electronic cigarettes, vapor devices
and chewing tobacco. It shall not include cannabis-infused foods,
nicotine patches or nicotine gum.
C.
Appropriate signage shall be posted designating the parks and any
other areas referred to herein as "smoke-free zones;" however, the
presence or absence of signs shall not be a defense to a violation
of this section.
D.
Violation of this section shall be punishable in accordance with
the provisions of § 18-1 of the Code.
No person shall dump or deposit any garbage
or any other kind of waste or debris anywhere within the public parks
of the City, other than the receptacles provided for such purposes.
No person shall cut, injure or destroy any flowering
plants, shrubs, trees or plant life of any character within the public
parks of the City.
No person shall willfully or maliciously injure,
deface, destroy or remove any property, either real or personal, belonging
to the City, located and situated within the public parks of said
city.
No person shall carry, possess, discharge or
fire any weapon, gun or pistol within the boundaries of any public
park of the City, except peace officers on duty, and except employees
of the Parks and Recreation Board when so authorized.
[Amended 12-4-2001 by Ord. No. 9-2001]
No person shall hunt or fish in any public park
of the City, except that fishing in the Susquehanna River is permitted.
This section shall not apply to regularly organized gatherings for
which the Parks and Recreation Commission has granted special written
permission.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall be punished as provided in § 1-18 of this Code.
