The Borough property between 111th and 117th Streets and between
2nd and 3rd Avenues, referred to as Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary or
Bird Sanctuary, is approximately 21+ acres of wetlands and maritime
forest dedicated to being a bird sanctuary.
The following rules and regulations shall be applicable to the
Bird Sanctuary and its parking lot:
A. The Bird Sanctuary is open to people or entities from 1/2 hour before
sunrise to 1/2 hour after sunset, but its parking lot for parking
is unrestricted except parking is prohibited between the hours of
2:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m.
B. The following activities in the sanctuary are prohibited:
(1) No dogs or other pets are allowed in the sanctuary other than the
parking lot.
(2) No feeding of any birds, fish, or other animals.
(3) No picnicking, littering, loitering, or alcohol.
(4) No playing any sports or activities involving throwing objects in
the air.
(5) No loud or unnecessary sound which disturbs, injures or endangers the health, comfort, safety or welfare of the birds within the sanctuary. See §
374-4 for the standards for such loud and unnecessary sound.
(6) No bicycles, skateboards, roller skates, or running on any path within
the sanctuary.
(7) No smoking on any path within the sanctuary and no discarding cigarette
butts or other tobacco products, except in proper containers.
(8) No picking the flowers from, or entering any gardens, in the sanctuary
other than by persons designated to weed and maintain those gardens.
(9) No leaving the designated boundaries of the path, other public walkways,
or bench seating area next to the parking lot. Except for Borough
employees, agents of the Borough, and the Bird Sanctuary Advisory
Committee, no person, group, or entity is allowed to be off or outside
the paths or other public walkways within the sanctuary unless the
Borough Administrator or Chairman of the Natural Resource Committee
has given permission.
C. By resolution of the Borough Council, the hours any path is open
to the public may be limited or closed so as to permit maintenance,
restoration and/or the well-being of the birds, such as during nesting,
feeding, or the like.
Any person or association of persons convicted of a violation of the rules and regulations above shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to the penalties set forth in Chapter
1, Article
III, Penalty, of the Borough of Stone Harbor Code.