[CC 1984 §19-1]
The provisions of this Code and other ordinances of the City
shall apply to all parks owned or maintained by the City with equal
effect, even if being applied outside the City limits.
[CC 1984 §19-2]
The City Administrator and Chief of Police are hereby empowered
and directed to cooperate with the Director of Parks and Recreation
and the Parks and Recreation Department, its officers, agents and
employees in the enforcement of all rules and regulations pertaining
to and governing the operation of the parks owned or maintained by
the City.
[CC 1984 §19-3]
A.
Boats. Unless specifically authorized by the Director of
Parks and Recreation, only those boats owned and provided by the City
shall be used or permitted within any park or recreational area owned
or maintained by the City. Should rental boats for public use be provided
by the City, they shall be assigned and launched only from a supervised
dock. Excepting for patrol and maintenance boats of the City, no motor-driven
boat shall be operated upon any lake owned or maintained by the City.
B.
Swimming, Bathing Or Wading. Unless specifically authorized
by the Director of Parks and Recreation, swimming, bathing or wading
in any body of water in any park owned or maintained by the City is
prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to swim, wade or otherwise
enter into at any time any lake or lagoon in a public park or in a
public swimming pool when the same is not open in the City.
C.
Skating And Ice Boating. Unless specifically authorized
by the Director of Parks and Recreation, no person shall at any time
skate or use any ice boat or ice craft upon the surface of any lake
owned or maintained by the City.
D.
Possession Of Firearms Or Other Deadly Or Dangerous Weapons. Unless specifically authorized by the Director of Parks and Recreation,
no person within any park owned or maintained by the City shall have
in his/her possession any firearm of any description or any other
deadly or dangerous weapon including, but not limited, to B.B. pellets
or dart guns, sling shots or bows and arrows. This prohibition does
not apply to agents of the State Conservation Commission or other
Law Enforcement Officers engaged in the performance of their duties.
E.
Dogs, Cats, Horses And Other Animals. Unless specifically
authorized by the Director of Parks and Recreation, no unleashed dog
or cat or other domesticated animal shall be permitted in any park
owned or maintained by the City. No such animal under any circumstances
shall be permitted in the waters of the lake. It shall be unlawful
for any person to ride or otherwise bring a horse in any public park
in the City, except in such areas and upon such bridle paths as may
be designated and marked therefor by the Department of Parks and Recreation.
F.
Sanitation. Unless otherwise authorized by the Director
of Parks and Recreation, persons using any land within any park owned
or maintained by the City, or any water therein, shall do so in such
a manner as to not create any insanitary condition therein or thereabout.
Water in adjacent areas shall not be polluted by the discharge of
any polluting liquids or solids tending to make the water and adjacent
area unwholesome or unfit for permitted recreational purposes or injurious
to the aquatic life in the lake water or to make more difficult the
improvement or convenient maintenance thereof. All refuse of every
character and all other debris shall be deposited in a sanitary manner
in the receptacle made available therefor.
G.
Fires And Picnicking. Unless specifically authorized by
the Director of Parks and Recreation, no fires or picnicking in any
park owned or maintained by the City shall be permitted unless facilities
for picnicking shall be provided by the Parks and Recreation Department,
and the area shall be opened for picnicking by notice given thereby.
When any area shall be opened for picnicking, fires shall be built
only in the oven, stoves or rings provided in the area and must be
supervised and extinguished before leaving the area. Open fires are
prohibited. All picnicking shall be confined to areas designated therefor
by the department. Persons making use of picnicking areas shall keep
the same neat and clean, pick up and remove in a sanitary manner all
paper, garbage, rubbish and debris and shall deposit the same in the
receptacles made available therefor.
H.
Alcoholic Beverages. Unless specifically authorized by the
Director of Parks and Recreation, possession of or consumption of
alcoholic beverages within any part of any park owned or maintained
by the City is prohibited. Any person violating this rule shall forfeit
all rights and privileges.
I.
Prohibited Grounds. Unless specifically authorized by the
Director of Parks and Recreation, no person shall go into any area
where persons are prohibited from going by sign or notice posted by
the Parks and Recreation Department or by the City.
[Ord. No. 1-90A §1, 11-16-1998]
Dean Daniely Park of the City of Farmington shall be closed
to the public beginning 9:00 P.M. of each day and opening at 6:00
A.M. of each day.
[CC 1984 §19-4]
A.
The
Director of Parks and Recreation, under the direction and approval
of the City Administrator, is hereby authorized to post the premises
of any park owned or maintained by the City with signs which give
notice to the public that entry upon the premises without property
permit, or for unauthorized purposes, or during unauthorized hours
within an area prohibited to the public constitutes trespass; and
entry upon the premises of any such park by any person in violation
of the terms of any such sign posted by authority of the Director
of Parks and Recreation, or pursuant to Title III, Traffic Code, Schedule
III, Table III-H of this Code shall constitute trespass.
[Ord. No. 6-157, 12-14-2017]
[CC 1984 §19-5]
Nothing in this Chapter shall be construed as affecting and
limiting the powers, rights and authority of the City, the Director
of Parks and Recreation or the Conservation Commission of the State
in regard to constructing, operating, improving, repairing, maintaining,
patrolling, policing, protecting or caring for any body of water subject
to the terms of this Chapter, the aquatic life therein, the shores
thereof, the bird and natural life therein and adjacent thereto.
[CC 1984 §19-6]
The use by the public of any park or recreational area covered
by this Chapter shall not in any manner render the City or any department
thereof liable for injury, damage or loss suffered by any person.
Neither the City nor any department thereof, including the Director
of Parks and the Utilities Superintendent, warrants the condition
of any such park or the recreational area, the improvements thereon
or the furniture, fixtures or equipment therein and all persons using
them and all facilities in connection therewith shall accept the same
in the condition existing at the time of use and, in consideration
of the use thereof, each person using same does agree to hold the
City and every department thereof, including the Director of Parks
and Recreation, harmless from any injury, damage or loss arising from
such use as to either person or property.
