[Adopted 2-18-1981 by Ord. No. 1238[1] (Ch. 88A of the 1972 Code)]
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Editor's Note: Ordinance No. 1238 became law on 3-18-1981
due to lack of either signature or veto on the part of the Mayor.
The Borough Council of the Borough of Lansdale hereby designates
and establishes and dedicates to the public of the Borough of Lansdale
the following listed properties for park and recreational purposes
and further declares and establishes them and dedicates the same as
parks of the Borough of Lansdale as follows:
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Adams Street Park
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Cherry Street and Pennbrook Avenue Park
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Church Road Park
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Fourth Street Park
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Hancock Street Park
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Hidden Valley Park
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Jackson Street Park
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Laurel Lane Park
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Memorial Park
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Moyer's Road Park
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Oakland Avenue Park
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Railroad Plaza Park
[Added 5-19-1999 by Ord. No. 1639] |
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Schweiker Park
[Added 6-18-1997 by Ord. No. 1608] |
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Stony Creek Park
[Added 7-25-2001 by Ord. No. 1671] |
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Wedgewood Park
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West Fifth Street Park
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White's Road Park
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Willow Street Park
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Wissahickon Park
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York and Susquehanna Park
[Added 7-25-2001 by Ord. No. 1671] |
The above-listed parks set forth in § 274-10 are described more fully in accordance with legal descriptions attached hereto marked Exhibits A through P, respectively, said legal descriptions corresponding to the parks as dedicated by name above.[1]
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Editor's Note: Exhibits A through P are on file in the office
of the Borough Secretary, One Vine Street, Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
[Amended 6-18-1997 by Ord. No. 1608; 5-19-1999 by Ord. No. 1639; 9-19-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-1826]
A.
No person or persons shall be permitted on any Borough park/parkland
except between sunrise and sunset, except:
(1)
By written permission, received in advance, from the Director of
Parks and Recreation;
(2)
For events of public interest sponsored or authorized by the Borough;
or
(3)
Pursuant to the most recent schedule of seasonal and lighted park
facility park hours ("schedule"), which shall be posted on the Department
of Parks and Recreation website and shall be available upon request
at Borough Hall and the office of the Department of Parks and Recreation
(which schedule may be amended from time to time by the Director of
Parks and Recreation).
B.
Notwithstanding Subsection A above, any Borough park or park facility may, in the sole discretion of the Director of Parks and Recreation, be closed whenever such park or park facility becomes hazardous for public use due to weather, fire, water, construction or other conditions or requires maintenance or repair or other reason for closure. When reasonably practicable, 24 hours' advance notice of the closing will be provided via the Department of Parks and Recreation website and such other means deemed appropriate by the Director of Parks and Recreation.
[Added 3-3-1999 by Ord. No. 1636]
A.
The use of skateboards shall be unlawful in the following locations:
(1)
Upon any sidewalk, municipal park and municipal parking lot in any
area designated as the downtown business district, excepting Wedgewood
Park and Fourth Street Park, and any other location that may be approved
by Borough Council from time to time. For purposes of this section,
the "downtown business district" shall include Main Street from Valley
Forge Road to Line Street and Vine Street from Broad Street to Richardson
Avenue. Parks and parking lots in the downtown business district include:[1]
(a)
Railroad Plaza Park.
(b)
Memorial Park Parking Lot.
(c)
Walnut Street Parking Lot.
(d)
West Main Street Parking Lot.
(e)
421 West Main Street Parking Lot.
(f)
Madison Parking Lot.
(g)
Police Station Parking Lot.
(h)
Borough Hall Parking Lot.
(i)
Vine Street and Susquehanna Avenue Parking Lot.
(j)
Susquehanna and Derstine Avenue Parking Lot.
(2)
Upon any public basketball court or tennis court.
B.
Violations and penalties. Any person who violates or permits a violation
of this section shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought
before a Magisterial District Judge under the Pennsylvania Rules of
Criminal Procedure, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable
by a fine of not more than $1,000, plus court costs and reasonable
attorneys' fees incurred by the Borough in the enforcement proceedings.
Upon judgment against any person by summary conviction, or by proceedings
by summons on default of the payment of the fine or penalty imposed
and the costs, the defendant may be sentenced and committed to the
Borough lockup for a period not exceeding 10 days or to the county
jail for a period not exceeding 30 days. Each day or portion thereof
that such violation continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute
a separate offense.
[Amended 8-15-2018 by Ord. No. 2018-1916]
[Added 11-28-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-1830; amended 7-19-2023 by Ord. No. 2023-1967]
A.
All parks in the Borough of Lansdale are hereby designated tobacco-free,
and the use of any tobacco product or electronic cigarette, in any
form, shall be prohibited.
(1)
For
purposes of this section, the term “tobacco product” shall
mean and includes the following:
(a)
Any product containing, made, or derived from tobacco or nicotine
that is intended for human consumption, whether smoked, heated, chewed,
absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, snorted, sniffed, or ingested by any
other means, including, but not limited to, cigarettes, cigars, little
cigars, chewing tobacco, pipe tobacco, snuff; and
(b)
Any electronic device that delivers nicotine or other substances
to the person inhaling from the device, including, but not limited
to, an electronic cigarette, cigar, pipe, or hookah.
(2)
Notwithstanding any provision of Subsection A(1)(a) and (b) to the contrary, “tobacco product” includes any component, part, or accessory of a tobacco product, whether sold separately. “Tobacco product” does not include any product that has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for sale as a tobacco cessation product or for other therapeutic purposes where such product is marketed and sold for such an approved purpose.
B.
The Borough Manager and Borough Police Chief are hereby authorized
to erect and post appropriate signage in the Borough’s parks
identifying them as Tobacco-Free Zones.
C.
In addition to the penalties set forth in this chapter or as permitted
by law, any person who, after one verbal warning, refuses to comply
with this section may be required, by a Borough official or Borough
police officer, to immediately leave the park.
[Added 8-15-2018 by Ord.
No. 2018-1916]
The following activities are prohibited:
A.
The doing of the following acts within any area designated as a park
of the Borough of Lansdale and dedicated and described as such in
this article:
(1)
Defacing, injuring, displacing, removing or in any other manner damaging
any monument, fence, sign, walkway, lawn, turf, shrubbery, building,
fruit, plant or any other natural or artificial facility or appurtenance.
(2)
Bathing, wading, swimming or in any way entering into any pond or
fountain.
(3)
The holding of meetings, group assemblies, musical or theatrical
entertainment or any other gathering arranged through advertising
of any sort without the specific advance approval of the Borough Council.
(4)
The soliciting of alms or sale of tickets or any merchandise or the
posting of any notices, advertisements or any other article without
the specific advance approval of the Borough Council.
(5)
The dropping, scattering or otherwise depositing of garbage, wastepaper,
rubbish or any other things except in receptacles placed in the park
for such materials.
(6)
Starting any fires or permitting any fire to continue to burn, except
on grills provided by the Park and Recreation Department.
(7)
The hunting, trapping, injuring, killing or otherwise disturbing
of any birds or animals in the park or the damaging, destruction or
removal of any nest or other home of any animal or bird.
(8)
The fouling or damaging of any pond or fountain in any manner whatever.
(9)
Allowing dogs to run at large without a leash.
(10)
Discharging of firearms or fireworks.
(11)
The consumption of or possession of any intoxicating liquor
or beer, unless approved in advance by Borough Council.
(13)
The use of any motorized vehicle, except those being operated
in official capacities as police or maintenance or service vehicles,
and also except motorized vehicles which are parked on the paved parking
area within the four defined boundaries of Memorial Park, which lot
is immediately adjacent to the Memorial Park baseball diamond and
on the easterly side of Line Street, also described as being located
in the southwesterly part of aforesaid Memorial Park.
(14)
The violation of any rules and regulations which from time to
time may be adopted by Borough Council with respect to conduct in
any park of the Borough of Lansdale.
B.
The below-listed rules and regulations shall apply to Schweiker Park:
(1)
No person shall enter or leave the park except by the entrances provided
for that purpose.
(2)
No person shall stand or lie on benches or tables in the park.
(3)
No person shall enter a toilet set apart for the use of the opposite
sex located within the park.
(4)
No intoxicating beverages shall be sold, possessed, distributed or
consumed within the park system.
(5)
No intoxicated person shall be permitted in the park.
(6)
No gambling or any obscene or indecent act shall be allowed in the
park.
(7)
No abusive, indecent or threatening language or conduct that may
annoy others shall be allowed in the park.
(8)
No person shall solicit alms or subscriptions in the park unless
authorized by the Borough of Lansdale and the Township of Hatfield.
(9)
No animals shall be permitted in the park except for Seeing Eye dogs
or other guide dogs.
(10)
No person shall sell or expose for sale any tickets of any kind
in the park unless authorized by the Borough of Lansdale and the Township
of Hatfield.
(11)
No person shall sell or expose any articles for sale within
the park unless authorized by the Borough of Lansdale and the Township
of Hatfield.
(12)
No person shall discharge any fireworks in the park.
(13)
No person shall operate a minibike or snowmobile on any roadway,
blacktop area or parking area or in any other area of the park. No
person shall park an automobile or any other vehicle on the grass
in any roadway or section of ground except in spaces definitely allocated
for parking purposes. In addition, no person shall operate any form
of motorized vehicle in the grass area of the park unless authorized
by the Borough of Lansdale and the Township of Hatfield.
(14)
No person or persons shall occupy a parked vehicle after dark
within the park.
(15)
No persons shall in any way injure or foul any buildings, equipment
or water within the park.
(16)
No person shall discharge firearm(s), carry bows and arrows,
or throw stones within the park.
(17)
No person shall throw any dead animals or offensive matter or
substance of any kind within the boundaries of the park.
(18)
No person shall scatter, drop or leave in any portion of the
park, except in the receptacles provided for the purpose, any piece
of paper, rag, garbage, dead flowers, glass, metal containers or other
rubbish.
(19)
No person shall injure, deface or destroy any notices, rules
or regulations for the governing of the park posted or in any other
manner permanently fixed within the limits of the same.
(20)
No placard, advertisement, public notice or personal card, except
park notices, rules and regulations, shall be distributed, posted
or affixed in any manner in the park unless authorized by the Borough
of Lansdale and the Township of Hatfield.
(21)
No person shall annoy, strike, injure, maim or kill any birds
or animals in the park.
(22)
No person shall disturb the waterfowl in the streams, pools
or ponds or birds, nests or eggs in any part of the park.
(23)
No person shall remove, disturb, interfere with or take any
of the blossoms or fruit growing from trees, shrubs or bushes in the
park.
(24)
No person shall climb any tree or break, cut down, trample upon
or remove or in any manner injure or deface any ornament, tree, plant,
shrub, fern, flower, flowerbed, turf or any of the buildings, fences,
bridges, playground equipment or other constructions within the park,
nor shall any such person write on any building, structure, fence,
rock or stone within the park or pick or carry away any fern or flower
except violets, buttercups, daisies or dandelions within the park.
(25)
No person shall light or permit a fire to burn in the park except
in the fireplaces provided therefor. Anyone who discovers a fire in
the park is requested to report it promptly to the Lansdale Borough
Police Department.
(26)
No person shall conduct any musical or theatrical entertainment
in the park unless authorized by the Borough of Lansdale and the Township
of Hatfield.
(27)
No gathering or meeting of any kind assembled through advertisement
shall be permitted in the park. Meetings or gatherings for political
or industrial purposes are not permitted.
(28)
No groups or parties in excess of 25 persons shall occupy the
park unless a permit has been secured and approved for such occupancy
by the Borough of Lansdale and the Township of Hatfield. No permit
shall be issued unless an application therefor shall have been made
at least 30 days before the time the group or party desires to occupy
the park.
(29)
No automobile or other vehicle shall exceed the speed of 15
miles per hour in the park.
(30)
No person nor group of persons shall be permitted to loiter
on or in the premises of the park to annoy or disturb, in any manner
whatsoever, any person while on the park premises, nor interfere with,
in any way, their use or enjoyment of the park facilities.
(31)
No person or individual shall throw or hit golf balls with a
golf club or any other type instrument whatsoever within the park.
C.
In addition to the regulations set forth in Subsections A and B of this section, the following shall apply to Railroad Plaza: The use of wheeled vehicles and wheeled recreational equipment shall be prohibited in Railroad Plaza, with the exception of baby carriages or strollers, authorized municipal vehicles, and wheelchairs for the use of individuals with physical disabilities.
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this article
shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial
District Judge under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of
not more than $1,000, plus court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees
incurred by the Borough in the enforcement proceedings. Upon judgment
against any person by summary conviction, or by proceedings by summons
on default of the payment of the fine or penalty imposed and the costs,
the defendant may be sentenced and committed to the Borough lockup
for a period not exceeding 10 days or to the county jail for a period
not exceeding 30 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation
continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate
offense, and each section of this article that is violated shall also
constitute a separate offense.
