[Amended 4-5-2006 by L.L. No. 3-2006]
A. 
The purpose of this article is to adopt the following rules and regulations for the government and protection of the Return Park and Drainage District and to provide for the enforcement thereof. These rules and regulations are designed in recognition of the fact that the district is located wholly within a residential development and has been developed and maintained through fees assessed on the taxpayers in the residential development.
B. 
The Town Board finds that over the years, the Return Park and Drainage District has seen increased automobile traffic from nonresidents of the residential development and increased use of the limited park facilities to the detriment of the inhabitants and taxpayers of the district. The Board also finds that Opinion 88-25 of the Office of the State Comptroller, citing to Town Law Articles 12 and 12-A and court cases interpreted those statutes, holds that a Town may limit the use of the facilities in a park district to district property owners and residents.
Persons who are not property owners or inhabitants of the Return residential development are prohibited from fishing in any waterway in the park and drainage district; may not park cars or drive on park and drainage district property; and must not deface, remove, injure or destroy any tree, shrub, flower, moss or other plant, rock, fossil or mineral found or growing on park and drainage district land. Birds and their nests and other wildlife must not be disturbed or molested.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall be guilty of an offense punishable by a fine not to exceed $250, or by imprisonment not to exceed 15 days, or by both fine and imprisonment.