[Adopted 5-5-2009 by Ord. No. 1338[1]]
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Editor's Note: This ordinance also revised the title of Ch. 400 from "Parks and Recreation Areas" to "Parks, Recreation Areas and Bird Sanctuary."
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.