[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Coxsackie 12-12-1979 by L.L. No. 9-1979. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
The following acts by any person within the
confines of any of the parks, playgrounds or public places of the
Village of Coxsackie are hereby prohibited:
A.
Climbing trees or cutting, breaking, injuring, defacing
or disturbing any tree, shrub, plant, grassed area or other vegetation,
rock, building, sign, monument, fence, bench, equipment or other structure,
apparatus or property; plucking, pulling up, cutting, taking or removing
any tree, shrub, bush, plant or flower; gathering or taking any fruit
or nut; or cutting, writing or marking upon any building, monument,
fence, bench, table or other structure, apparatus or property.
B.
Injuring, defacing or destroying any notices, rules
or regulations posted for the government of the park or playground.
C.
Cutting or removing any wood, turf, grass, soil, rock,
sand or gravel.
D.
Indulging in riotous, boisterous, threatening, immoral
or indecent conduct. No person shall disturb the peace and good order
in the park by fighting, quarreling or wrangling with loud voices
or shouts, threatening violence to any person or the property of others,
or engage in clamor or boisterous shouts or conduct or tumult.
E.
Using any abusive, threatening, profane, immoral,
indecent or suggestive language.
F.
Selling or offering for sale any merchandise, article
or thing whatsoever except through duly authorized concessions.
G.
Leaving behind or dumping any material of any kind,
including but not limited to bottles, tin cans, broken glass, paper,
clothes, rubbish or offal of any description, except that refuse,
ashes, garbage and other material from a picnic or other permitted
activity shall be deposited in receptacles or pits provided and marked
for such purposes.
H.
Collecting in parks in bodies or crowds for unlawful
purposes or boisterous or riotous assemblage or intending to annoy,
harass or inflict property damage or bodily injury upon another person
or persons.
I.
Playing at disorderly games of chance or offering
for sale or being under the disturbing influence of any beer, drug,
stimulant, depressant or hallucinating agent; and no person shall
possess, consume or use any illegal substance, drug, stimulant, depressant
or hallucinating agent within the park.
J.
Loitering in or near toilet buildings in parks.
K.
Except maintenance employees on duty, entering a toilet
room set aside for the opposite sex.
L.
Appearing in a state of nudity or in dress not properly
belonging to his or her sex or committing, performing or engaging
in any lewd, lascivious, obscene or indecent act or behavior; and
no person shall make any indecent exposure of his or her person.
No person shall have, possess, carry or transport
any liquor, wine, beer or other alcoholic beverage in an open bottle
or other open container or any illegal substance, drug, stimulant,
depressant or hallucinating agent in or upon any public sidewalk,
street, lane, highway, building, parking lot, park or playground area
or other public property or in any vehicle upon such area within the
Village of Coxsackie. No person shall drink or otherwise consume any
liquor, wine, beer or other alcoholic beverage in or upon any of the
aforesaid public areas or property within the Village of Coxsackie.
No individual or organization shall hold or
conduct any picnic, celebration, parade, service or exercise without
first obtaining a permit, and it shall be unlawful for any person
to take part in any picnic, celebration, service or exercise held
or conducted contrary to the provisions hereof. Further, such permit
may include permission for an organization desiring to have, distribute
or consume alcoholic beverages in a park or playground area within
the Village of Coxsackie. No person shall consume, possess or distribute
any alcoholic beverages in any park or playground area within the
Village of Coxsackie, but the distribution, possession or consumption
of beer shall be lawful upon the issuance of a permit, which permit
shall be issued only upon the following conditions:
A.
Such organization, by its duly authorized officer,
must agree, in writing, to assume full responsibility for supervising
the conduct of the group or individuals benefiting from such permit
and to properly clean up and restore the premises, after use, to their
prior condition.
B.
Such organization must further agree, in writing,
that adequate precautions shall be taken to ensure that minors will
not be served or allowed to consume alcoholic beverages at the permitted
event or gathering.
C.
No alcoholic beverages shall be distributed or consumed
other than on the specific premises described in the permit and only
during the time stated therein.
D.
No permit shall be issued to any organization which
has previously been issued a permit and has failed to comply with
the provisions hereof.
All permits provided for hereunder shall be
issued through the Mayor.
It is hereby granted to the Mayor the authority
to make and enforce reasonable rules and regulations for the use of
the parks and playgrounds, the violation of which rules and regulations
shall be considered to be a violation of this chapter and shall be
subject to the penalties herein provided.
These rules and regulations shall apply to all
parks within the Village of Coxsackie.
[Amended 5-9-2011]
All Village parks shall be open between the
hours of sunrise and dusk and shall be closed to the public during
the remaining hours, except as hereinafter set forth or by special
permit.
A.
No person shall start a fire in a park, except small
fires for culinary purposes in park grills or privately owned grills
or fires in the fireplaces or designated areas approved by the Village
Board or Superintendent of Streets, Parks and Municipal Buildings,
except that the Superintendent of Streets, Parks and Municipal Buildings
may, at his discretion, prohibit fires for limited periods at any
park property.
B.
All fires shall be put out by the person or persons
starting or using the same before leaving the immediate vicinity of
the fire. The dumping of hot ashes or fire from portable grills onto
the plants or grass is prohibited.
No person within the confines of a park shall
hunt, pursue with dogs, trap or in any way molest any wild bird or
animal found within the confines of the park or rob or molest any
bird nest or take the eggs of any bird.
No person shall fail or refuse to comply with
any reasonable order lawfully given by any law enforcement officer
or any authorized agent acting under the authority of the Village
Board or willfully resist, obstruct or abuse any law enforcement officer
or other official in the execution of his official duty.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate
any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction, be punishable
by a fine of not more than $250 or by imprisonment for not more than
15 days, or both.
