No person shall, within a park or other recreational area, sell
or offer for sale any goods or wares or play musical instruments without
permission from or by contract with the Township Committee.
No person shall act as a solicitor, agency, peddler, mendicant,
musician or showman in any park or recreational area.
No person shall conduct or carry on any games of chance in any
park or recreational area.
A. No intoxicated person shall enter or remain in any park or recreational
area.
B. No alcoholic beverages or hallucinatory drugs shall be allowed in
any park or recreational area.
No person shall place or erect any structure, sign, bulletin
or bulletin board or advertising device of any kind whatsoever in
any park or recreational area without first obtaining permission from
the Township Committee.
No person shall, in any park or recreational area:
A. Disfiguration and removal. Willfully mark, deface, disfigure, injure,
mutilate, tamper with, displace, destroy or remove any building, structure,
rest room, statue or monument, fountain, bridges, tables, benches,
fireplaces, railings or paving material, waterlines or other public
utilities or parts or appurtenances thereof, signs, notices or placards,
whether temporary or permanent, monuments, stakes, posts or other
boundary markers or other structures or equipment, facilities or park
property or appurtenances whatsoever, either real or personal.
B. Removal of natural resources. Dig or remove any sand, solid rock,
stones, trees, shrubs or plants or other wood or materials or make
any excavation by tool equipment, blasting or other means or agency.
C. Protection of grounds. Bring into any park area any material which
if spilled or spread would be injurious to the turf or plant growth.
D. Dumping of refuse. Dump or deposit, throw, cast, lay, scatter or leave or cause to be dumped, deposited, thrown, cast, laid, scattered or left in or upon any park or recreational area any "waste or refuse matter" as that phrase is defined in §
134-1 of this chapter.
A. No person in any park or recreational area shall bring or have in
his possession or set off or otherwise cause to explode or discharge
or burn any gun or other firearm of any type whatsoever, including
BB guns, or firecracker, torpedo, rocket or other fireworks or device
or explosives of inflammatory material.
B. No person shall discharge or throw any such device described in Subsection
A of this section into any park or recreational area from any land or highway adjacent thereto.
No person shall go onto the ice in any of the waters in the
parks or recreational areas except such areas as are designated for
skating, and provided that a safety marker is displayed.
No person shall operate any gasoline or battery-powered go-carts,
model airplanes, midget motor cars, mopeds or motorcycles of any type
or description in any park or recreational area.
No person shall clean, wash, polish or make other than emergency
repairs upon any automobile, motorcycle or motor-driven vehicle in
any park or recreational area.
No person shall operate any public-address system without prior
written permission from the Township Committee; provided, however,
that this prohibition shall not include the use of small portable
radios to receive regularly broadcasted programs if such radios are
operated at such volume as not to disturb other persons present in
the park or recreational area.
No person shall unnecessarily disturb or interfere with spectators
or participants in any event conducted in any park or recreational
area nor enter any area provided for or occupied by spectators or
participants at any such event for the purpose of doing any such acts.
No person shall camp or lodge in any manner in or upon any park
or recreational area unless prior written permission is obtained from
the Township Committee.
No person shall play or engage in the hitting of golf balls
in any park or recreational area.
No person shall, in any park or recreational area, practice
the throwing of javelins, shot put, discus or any other dangerous
items that may cause injury, including, but not by way of limitation,
bow and arrows, knives, boomerangs and the like.
No person shall change clothes anywhere in the parks or recreational
areas except in buildings or structures designated for that purpose.
No person shall light fires in parks or recreational areas except
in areas designated for that purpose.
No person or group of persons shall picnic or prepare food in
any park or recreation area except in areas designated for that purpose
by the Township Committee. No person or group of persons shall consume
any prepared food in any park or recreation area except in areas designated
for that purpose. The foregoing provisions of this section shall not
be deemed to prevent citizens of the Township of Knowlton from consuming
within the park such items as candy, ice cream and the like, which
items may or shall have been purchased elsewhere. The Township Committee,
upon the receipt of proper applications, shall be able to grant permission
in appropriate circumstances for the holding of picnics or the allowing
of the preparation of food in connection with the celebration of national
and local holidays or on other special occasions when such activities
may have been sanctioned or permitted by the action of the Township
Committee.
No person shall, in any park or recreational area, deposit litter
except in the containers provided for that purpose.
No person shall within any park or recreational area:
A. Hunt, molest, harm, frighten, kill, trap, chase, tease, shoot or
throw missiles at any animal or bird.
B. Remove or have in his possession the young of any wild animal or
the eggs or nest of birds.
C. Fish for, seine, catch or take from the waters situated in any park
or recreational area any fish of any type whatsoever.
No person shall, in any park or recreational area, use boisterous
or insulting language or act in a disorderly, lewd or lascivious manner
or perform any act which may endanger others.
[Added 9-14-1998 by Ord.
No. 98-14]
No person shall operate or have parked a vehicle except in designated
driveway and parking areas. No person shall operate or have parked
a vehicle on playing fields or areas covered by grass unless said
area has been specifically designated, by the use of signs, to be
a parking area.