[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council
of the Township of College 6-15-2006 by Ord. No. O-06-17.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Disorderly conduct — See Ch. 93.
Dogs and cats — See Ch. 95.
Solicitors and temporary businesses — See Ch. 171.
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 190.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed
former Ch. 139, Parks and Recreation Areas, adopted 5-2-1972 by Ord.
No. 42, as amended 1-8-1987 by Ord. No. 100.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
The Centre Region Council of Governments' Department of Parks
and Recreation (CRPR). It is noted that oversight of CRPR is provided
by the Centre Region Parks and Recreation Board / Centre Regional
Recreation Authority, or such group as may be designated by the Centre
Region Council of Governments' General Forum.
The Director of Parks and Recreation of the Centre Region
Council of Governments' Department of Parks and Recreation.
All useless matter eliminated from the bodily system, such
as sputum, urine or fecal matter.
A state of any person being drunk, inebriated or under the
influence of alcoholic beverages or spirituous liquors taken internally
or under the influence of illegal drugs.
Unless specifically limited, includes all parks, playgrounds,
athletic fields, stadiums, tennis courts, golf courses, swimming pools,
beaches, band shells, music pavilions, recreational areas and structures,
museums, geological and botanical gardens, and also entrances and
approaches thereto, and all other land or property or structures now
or hereafter owned, acquired or leased by the Township of College
for park or recreation purposes, and those areas owned or leased by
the Centre Region Council of Governments or Centre Regional Recreation
Authority and so authorized by resolution of the College Township
Council. Said areas may be operated or maintained by the Township
of College or by CRPR.
The Parks and Recreation Committee of the Township of College.
Any written authorization for a specific park privilege and
issued by or under the authority of the Director of Parks and Recreation.
It is understood that requests for group activities at those sites
maintained by College Township will be jointly considered for accommodation
by CRPR and College Township. The fees, policies and procedures associated
with permits for CRPR-maintained areas shall be previously approved
by action of the Centre Region Parks and Recreation Board/Centre Regional
Recreation Authority.
Any natural person, corporation, organization of persons,
company, association or partnership.
Any peace officer of the Township of College or Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, or any employee of the Department of Parks and Recreation
appointed as a special police officer for the purpose of the enforcement
of law and order within those areas so designated by resolution of
the College Township Council.
Any rules and regulations hereby or hereafter established
by ordinance or resolution of College Township.
In the interpretation of the rules and regulations
affecting parks, their provisions shall be construed as follows:
A.
Terms in singular. Any term in the singular shall
include the plural.
B.
Terms in masculine. Any term in the masculine shall
include the feminine and neuter.
C.
Extension of rules and regulations. Any requirement
or provision of these rules and regulations relating to any act shall
respectively extend to and include the causing, procuring, aiding
or abetting, directly or indirectly, of such act or the permitting
or the allowing of any minor in the custody of any persons to do any
act prohibited by any provisions thereof.
D.
Acts not unlawful. No provision hereof shall make
unlawful any act necessarily performed by any police officer or employee
of the Department of Parks and Recreation in the line of duty or work
as such, or by any person, his agents or employees in the proper and
necessary execution of the terms of any agreement with the Department
of Parks and Recreation.
E.
Permits. Any act otherwise prohibited by these rules
and regulations, provided that it is not otherwise prohibited by law
or local ordinance, shall be lawful if performed under, by virtue
of and strictly in compliance with the provisions of a permit and
to the extent authorized thereby.
F.
State and federal laws. These rules and regulations
are in addition to and supplement all state and federal laws.
A.
Disturbing the peace. No person shall disturb the
peace in any park by any act.
B.
Immorality and indecency. No person shall do any obscene
or indecent act in any park, or display, expose or distribute any
picture, banner or other object suggestive of sex in a lewd, indecent
or immoral way or enter a comfort station or toilet set apart for
the use of the opposite sex; nor shall any person loiter in any comfort
station or toilet at any time; nor shall any person dress or undress
in any park except in dressing rooms provided for such persons.
C.
Unbecoming language. No person shall use threatening,
abusive, insulting, profane or obscene language or words in any parks
or similar facilities.
D.
Soliciting money. No person shall solicit money, subscriptions
or contributions for any purpose in any park unless authorized by
permit.
E.
Intoxication. No person shall enter a park in an intoxicated
condition; nor shall any person have in his possession or drink or
use in any park any alcoholic beverage; nor shall any person have
in his possession or use in any park illegal drugs of any kind.
F.
Weapons, projectiles, etc. No person shall perform
the following actions within parks or playgrounds without having previously
obtained written consent and approval of the Director of the Centre
Region Parks and Recreation Department: carry or discharge an air
rifle or air pistol, a paintball gun or paintball marker, fireworks
(including rockets) or other missile-propelling instruments or explosives,
a slingshot or a bow and arrow, or other dangerous weapons, excepting
firearms, which have such properties as to cause annoyance or injury
to any person or property; provided further that no person shall discharge
any firearm within parks or playgrounds.
[Amended 6-2-2011 by Ord. No. O-11-03[1]]
G.
Dangerous conduct. No person shall interfere with,
encumber, obstruct or render dangerous any park or part thereof.
H.
Excreta. No person shall emit, eject or cause to be
deposited in any park any excreta of the human body except in proper
receptacles designated for such purposes.
I.
Improper admission. No person shall gain improper
admission to or use of or attempted admission to any park facility
for which a charge is made without paying the fixed charge or price
of admission.
J.
Vehicles. No person shall use any motorized vehicle,
recreational or otherwise, except on designated roads, trails or areas
approved for their use by CRPR and College Township.
K.
Disobeying authorities and signs. No person shall,
in any park, disobey a proper order of a police officer or any Township
authorized employee. Nor shall any person in any park disobey, disregard
or fail to comply with any rule or regulation, warning, prohibition,
instruction or direction posted or displayed by sign, notice, bulletin,
card, poster or when notified or informed as to its existence by a
park employee or other authorized person.
L.
Hunting and trapping. It is unlawful to hunt for,
capture or kill, or attempt to capture or kill, or aid or assist in
the capturing or killing of, in any manner, any wild bird or wild
animal of any description, either game or otherwise.
[Amended 2-5-2015 by Ord.
No. O-15-04]
M.
Camping. Day or overnight camping of any type is prohibited
except as specifically authorized by permit.
N.
Remote-controlled
or tethered model aircraft. Remote-controlled or tethered model aircraft
shall not be operated in any park without a permit for the operation
thereof issued by the Director of the Centre Region Parks and Recreation
Department.
[Added 6-2-2011 by Ord. No. O-11-03]
A.
Defacing, breaking and injuring trees, plants, benches,
etc. No person shall cut, break, injure, deface or disturb any tree,
shrub, plant, rock, building, cage, pen, monument, fence, bench or
other structure, apparatus or property; or pluck, pull up or out,
take or remove any shrub, bush, plant or flower; or mark or write
upon any building, monument, fence, bench or other structure; or injure,
deface or remove any property, real or personal, or any natural growth,
structure, equipment, animals, signs or other park property.
B.
Setting of fires. No fires shall be set in any park
except in areas where fires are designated except as specifically
authorized by permit.
C.
Discharging in bodies of water. No person shall discharge
into any body of water in any park, or in any storm sewer or drain
flowing into said water, any waste matter whatsoever.
D.
Animals in parks. No person owning or being custodian
or having control of any animal, livestock or poultry shall cause
or permit same to go at large in any park. A dog or other domesticated
animal may be brought into a park, provided that such animal is continuously
restrained by a leash not exceeding six feet in length, except that
no dog or other such animal shall be permitted within 50 feet of picnic
pavilions, bathhouses, wading pools and children's play areas or in
any area designated by signs as prohibited areas.[1]
E.
Horses. No person shall ride or lead a horse into
or upon lawns or other prohibited areas in any park, nor shall any
person bring into any park any horse not well broken, any horse unattended
or not mounted or any vehicle led by a horse, except by permit.
F.
Waste matter. No person shall deposit, drop or leave
any papers, bottles, debris or other waste matter or refuse of any
kind in any park or part thereof except in such receptacles as may
be provided for the purpose.
G.
Closed areas. College Township and Centre Region Parks
and Recreation reserves the right to close or restrict specific areas
of parklands in the interest of safety or to protect the area from
additional damages. Specific areas may also be closed to bicycles
and other nonmotorized vehicles, or bike riding may be prohibited
in these areas; i.e., bicycles must be walked on the nature center
boardwalk, and may be prohibited from certain trail areas. In all
instances, appropriate signs will be posted at those areas.
A.
Vehicles are to be operated at a reasonable speed,
not to exceed 15 miles per hour. No person shall operate any motor
vehicle on any roadway in any park at any rate of speed greater than
is reasonable, having regard to the width of the roadway, traffic
and use of such roadway, intersection with other roadways, weather
and other conditions; and in no event shall any vehicle be operated
on such highway at a speed in excess of 15 miles per hour.
B.
Repairs to vehicles. No person shall, in any park,
make repairs to any vehicle except those of a minor nature, and then
only in cases of emergency.
C.
Vehicles are to be operated on roadways and parked
in approved areas. No person shall operate any vehicle in any part
of a park except on roadways established for the operation of vehicles,
nor shall any person park any vehicle in any area except those areas
specifically designated for parking purposes.
A.
Permits. A permit to do any act shall authorize the
same only insofar as it may be performed in strict accordance with
the written terms and conditions thereof. Any violation of any law,
ordinance, rule or regulation by the holder or agents of the holder
of any permit shall constitute grounds for revocation, which action
shall be final. In case of revocation, all moneys paid therefor shall,
at the option of the Department of Parks and Recreation, be forfeited
and shall leave the violator liable for all damages or loss suffered
in excess of such forfeited or retained money, and such moneys retained
or damages paid, or both, shall not relieve such person from liability
to punishment for violation of any law, ordinance, rule or regulation.
B.
Public events. No person shall organize, promote,
conduct, operate, present or manage in any park a group event, parade,
drill, maneuver, public meeting, ceremony, speech, address, public
contest, exhibit, dramatic performance, spectacle, play, motion picture,
fair, circus or show of any kind or nature, band, choir, glee club
or orchestra without a permit.
C.
Picnics. All organized, nonfamily group picnics or
outings shall be authorized by permits obtained previous to entering
any park. In all cases, group activities in those parks operated by
CRPR shall conform to the established group reservation policies as
approved by the Centre Region Parks and Recreation Board / Centre
Regional Recreation Authority. Nonfamily group activities in those
parks maintained by College Township are not encouraged due to the
limited accommodations provided at those sites.
D.
Sport fields. All organized teams, leagues, agencies,
schools, churches and other groups must obtain a permit for these
facilities before announcing schedules.
E.
Selling concessions. No person shall, in any park,
exhibit, sell or offer for sale, hire, lease or let out any object,
service or merchandise or anything whatsoever, whether corporal or
incorporal, except under a permit.
F.
Advertising. No person shall advertise in any park
in any manner whatsoever for any reason whatsoever except by permit.
G.
Games in designated areas. No person shall throw,
cast, catch, kick, play with or strike any game ball whatsoever or
engage in any sport, game or competition except in places and during
the time designated therefor, except by permit. Nor shall a person
engage in or play a game or other sport or contest of a nature different
from the one for which the designated area was created, except in
such areas as are officially set aside for diversified games or by
permit.
In order to provide for equitable use of park
facilities, preserve park areas and facilities and protect the safety
of users of the parks and their facilities, the Director of Parks
and Recreation shall have the following authority in those facilities
operated by CRPR, the enumeration of which shall not restrict the
general authority and control of the Director over designated parks:
A.
To fix time. To fix the times when the parks or parts
thereof shall be open to public use.
B.
To restrict use. To designate parks and parts thereof
as restricted to the use of certain portions of the public at certain
times as he sees fit.
C.
To issue permits. Under uniform conditions as provided
by the approved policies of the Centre Region Parks and Recreation
Board / Centre Regional Recreation Authority, to issue permits for
regulated uses as hereinbefore enumerated.
D.
To fix, charge and collect fees. To fix, charge and
collect such fees and deposits for the use of park areas or facilities
as approved by the Centre Region Parks and Recreation Board / Centre
Regional Recreation Authority or privileges as the Board deems advisable
to help defray the expense of the parks and associated facilities.
A.
Police officers of the Township or state, or park
employees appointed as special park police, shall have the authority
to enforce these rules and regulations for parks.
B.
Any person violating any provision of this chapter
or any rule or regulation prescribed by the Township of College pursuant
thereto shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not
more than $300 for each offense and costs, and in default of payment
of said fine and costs, to be imprisoned in the Centre County Jail
for a period not exceeding 30 days.
The provisions of Chapter 139 shall apply to those parks and related facilities within the Township as specified by resolution of the College Township Council.
