This Part 2 regulating the use of the parks and property owned
or controlled by the Village of Sidney, Illinois, providing for conduct
and enforcement, and providing penalties for the violation of its
provisions shall be known and may be cited as the "Ordinance Regulating
Conduct in Public Parks."
For the purpose of this Part 2, the following terms, phrases,
words and their derivations shall have the meanings given herein.
When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present
tense include the future; words in the plural number include the singular
number and words in the singular number include the plural number;
words importing the masculine gender shall include the feminine, and
words importing the feminine gender shall include the masculine. The
word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.
A specified place within a park.
Any person granted authority by the Village Board President.
Any employee of the Village of Sidney.
The person appointed and designated by the Village Board
of Trustees to administer the policies established by the Village
Board of Trustees.
The time when the park or facility is officially closed until
it opens the following day.
Any park or property owned, leased or controlled by the Village
such as a play field, playground, pool, golf course, and recreation
center or any other area or facility in the Village devoted to activate
or passive recreation.
Any designated park or any park road or drive, or special
area contiguous thereto that is set apart for the standing or stationing
of vehicles as deemed by the Village.
The written permission of the Village that must be obtained
and possessed to engage in a specific activity.
Any natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
governmental unit, company, entity or any organization of any kind.
Any individual trained in the methods of law enforcement
and authorized to maintain peace, safety and order.
The contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical
or biological properties of park waters or land, including changes
in the temperatures, taste, color, turbidity or odor of park waters
or any discharge of any liquid, gas, solid, or other substance into
or onto park waters or property that will or is likely to create public
nuisance or render such waters or property harmful or detrimental
to the public health, safety or welfare, or to domestic, recreational
or other beneficial uses, or to wild animals, birds, fish or other
aquatic life.
Any notice which is displayed, whether by a sign in a park,
entrance to the park, or is available at the Village Hall, the location
being at the discretion of the Village.
Any lands, waters, facilities or possessions of the Village,
whether in fee, as a leasehold or by management agreement.
Any wheeled conveyance, whether motor-powered or self-propelled.
The term shall include any trailer in tow of any size, kind or description,
except for baby carriages, a children's wagon or bicycle and vehicles
in the service of the Village.
The Village of Sidney.
Any device or conveyance utilized on the water, whether propelled
by motor, engine, wind or human power. The term includes, but is not
limited to, any boat, canoe or raft.
Waters within the jurisdiction of the Village.
