CROSS REFERENCES
Definitions and rules of construction generally, § 1-2.
Animals, ch. 5.
Trees and shrubs, § 21-56 et seq.
Operating motor vehicles in public parks, § 24-255.
Riding bicycles in public parks or playgrounds, § 24-256.
STATE LAW REFERENCES
Power of city to lay out, establish, etc., parks, playgrounds
and public places, General City Law § 20(7).
Playgrounds and neighborhood recreation centers, General Municipal
Law § 240 et seq.
[Code 1971, § 20-1]
In this chapter "parks and public grounds" mean all the adjacent
land to the curbline of adjoining streets, as fixed by the common
council of the city.
[Code 1971, § 20-8]
Any person using any public place, park, playground, street,
creek, or river, for the purpose of recreation, amusement, or bathing,
or using any of the apparatus therein contained furnished therefor
by any person within the city, shall do so at his own risk. The city
will not be responsible in any way for the safety of any child or
adult patronizing such places for their private purposes or otherwise.
[Res. No. 93-92, 6-9-1992]
All adult softball and baseball leagues must pay a seasonal
fee of $75 per team to reserve fields for adult softball and baseball
league play.
[Res. No. 47-92, 6-9-1992; Res. No. 92-93, 7-27-1993; Res.
No. 3-95, 2-28-1995; Res. No. 61-96, 7-23-1996; Res. No. 92-96, 10-8-1996;
Res. No. 60-97, 6-10-1997]
The city shall charge fees to individuals and organizations
for the use of city recreational facilities as shall be established
by time to time by the common council by resolution.
[Code 1971, § 20-5]
It shall be unlawful for any person to climb any tree or pluck
any flowers or fruit, whether wild or cultivated, or break, cut down,
trample upon, remove, or in any manner injure or deface any statue,
flower bed, turf, or any of the buildings, fences, bridges, or other
structures within the several parks or public grounds.
[Code 1971, § 20-2]
It shall be unlawful for any person to enter upon any parks
or public grounds and dig or remove any dirt, tree, shrub, or bush
which may be in, upon, or a part of any of such parks or public grounds,
except under the direction of the parks director.
[Code 1971, § 20-3]
It shall be unlawful for any person to cut down, bruise, cut
into, or in any way injure any tree, shrub, growing bush, or flowers
that are at present, or may hereafter be growing in or upon any of
the parks or public grounds.
[Code 1971, § 20-4]
It shall be unlawful for any person to cut or mark any name
or device or write upon any tree, paling, fence, rock, stone, bench,
statue, building, or structure situated or located in the parks.
[Code 1971, § 20-6]
It shall be unlawful for any person to fire or discharge any
gun, pistol, or other firearm; any rocket, torpedo, or other fireworks
of any description; or throw stones or missiles within the several
parks or public grounds.
[Code 1971, § 20-7]
It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully kill, injure,
destroy, annoy, capture, or in any manner interfere with any squirrel
or other animals or birds placed in the public parks of the city by
the common council or by persons authorized by them to do so.
[Code 1971, § 20-12; Res. No. 150-93, 10-26-1993;
Res. No. 88-94, 9-13-1994]
(a)
Except when extended by the parks director, all city parks shall
be open to the public from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily.
(b)
No person may enter upon any city park during those hours when the
park is not open except for the purpose of crossing over the park
on sidewalks or public ways used for that purpose and kept and maintained
by the city for the purpose of egress and ingress across the park.
(c)
This section shall not be applied to Gargoyle Park.
[Code 1971, § 20-13]
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Editor's note — Res. No. 27-93, adopted
March 9, 1993, repealed § 17-30, which pertained to dispensing,
consumption of alcohol at Bradner Stadium prohibited. See the Code
Comparative Table.
[Res. No. 13-95, 3-28-1995]
It shall be unlawful for any person to utilize glass beverage
bottles within city parks except this prohibition shall not apply
to wine or liquor bottles.
