(a) It shall
be unlawful within the limits of any city park to:
(1) Hitch,
fasten, lead, drive or let loose any animal, reptile, or fowl of any
kind, provided that this shall not apply to dogs when led by a cord
or chain, not more than six feet long, except in designated areas.
(2)
(A) Ride or drive any horse or other animal, except in designated areas.
(B) Ride, drive or go at a rate of speed faster than speed limits as
posted on standard traffic signs, upon any bicycle, motorcycle, automobile,
or any other vehicle whatsoever, upon any drive or street in any park
of the city; or
(C) Ride or drive any such motorcycle, automobile or other motorized
vehicle upon any walk in such park, except in designated areas.
(3)
(A) Carry or discharge any firearm, firecrackers, rockets, torpedoes
or any other fireworks, air guns, BB guns, bow and arrows, slingshots;
or
(B) Hit golf balls except in designated areas.
(4)
(A) Damage, cut, break, injure, deface, or disturb any tree, shrub, plant,
rock, building, cage, pen, monument, fence, bench or other structure
apparatus, or property; or
(B) Pluck, pull up, cut, take or remove any shrub, bush, plant or flower;
or
(C) to mark or write upon, paint, or deface any building, monument, fence
bench or other structure.
(5) Cut
or remove any wood, turf, grass, soil, rock, sand, gravel or fertilizer.
(6) Make
or kindle a fire, except in picnic stoves, braziers, fire pits or
designated areas provided for that purpose.
(7) Wash
dishes or to empty saltwater or other waste liquids elsewhere than
in sinks provided for such purposes.
(8) Leave
garbage, cans, bottles, papers or other refuse elsewhere than in receptacles
provided therefor.
(9) Participate
or engage in any activity on any public park area when such activity
will create a danger to the public or may be considered a public nuisance.
The city manager may designate particular locations within park areas
for specific activities.
(10) Play
or bet at or against any game which is played, conducted, dealt or
carried on with cards, dice, or other device, for money, chips, shells,
credit or any other representative of value, or to maintain or exhibit
any gambling table or other instrument of gambling or gaming.
(11) Use
or speak any threatening, abusive, insulting or indecent language
in any of the public parks, and no person shall commit, in any such
parks, any obscene, lewd or indecent act or create any nuisance.
(12) Disturb
in any manner any picnic, meeting, service, concert, exercise or exhibition.
(13) Distribute,
post, place, or erect any advertising handbill, circular, bill, notice,
paper or other advertising device without prior permission of the
city manager.
(14) Sell
or offer for sale any food, drinks, confections, merchandise or services,
unless such person has a written agreement or a permit issued by the
city manager.
(15) Practice,
carry on, conduct or solicit for any trade, occupation, business or
profession without approval of the city manager.
(16) Remain,
stay or loiter in any public park between the hours of 1:00 a.m. or
6:00 a.m. or remain, stay or loiter in any park in other than open
hours as posted.
(17) For
any person over the age of six years to use the restrooms and washrooms
designated for the opposite sex.
(18) Hunt
or kill any animal or bird of any kind whatsoever within the limits
of any park within the city.
(b)
(1) Baseball
played on municipally owned property shall not be played after 11:30
p.m. except with special permission of the city manager.
(2) All
baseball fields located on municipally-owned property will be vacated
by midnight and the lights cut off by such time.
(c)
(1) All
vehicles used for the purpose of transporting freight and merchandise,
or brick, stone, or gravel, and all those commonly known as floats,
moving wagons, express or delivery wagons are prohibited from entering
upon or being driven through any of the public parks of the city,
except by special permission of the city manager subject to appropriate
conditions and safeguards.
(2) No
vehicle shall be driven over or across the curbs, sidewalks, grass
or lawn within any park area unless signs permit. Parking is to be
done in areas set aside for this purpose only. In areas having no
parking set aside, all parking will take place outside of the boundary
or curbline, where existing. Where parking stalls have been designated
all vehicles shall be parked on such lots within and between the lines
designating a single vehicle parking space and not otherwise. Where
parking lots or areas within public parks of the city have been designated
for head-in parking to front on a visible parking line without delineated
single vehicle spaces, the front of the vehicle shall be placed on
the parking line and as near as practicable to side of the last parked
vehicle in line. No vehicle shall be parked on left behind any other
vehicle in the parking line or back of such parking line in any manner
so as to obstruct, block or hinder ingress or egress from the line.
Officers of the police department of the city shall issue to violators
of this section, traffic tickets. Where a vehicle is parked or left
in violation of this section in such a manner as to obstruct or block
traffic and the owner or operator of the vehicle cannot be found,
police officers of the city may move the vehicle so that traffic will
not be impeded. No variation to the requirements of this division
shall be allowed except by special permit issued by the city manager.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title IX, Chapter 101,
Section 101.01)
The city municipal parks shall be closed to the public between
the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m. and the presence of any
person in the parks during such hours shall be unlawful; provided,
this section does not apply to employees of the city in the parks
on official business nor to persons in the parks on the occasions
as provided in Section 1.703.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title IX, Chapter 101,
Section 101.02)
(a) Upon proper
application 24 hours in advance, a permit may be secured from the
police department for use of one of the municipal parks and it shall
not be unlawful for persons to be in the specific parks during the
hours specified in the permit, nor for one hour after the end of such
function. There shall be no fee imposed for the permit.
(b) Such permits
shall apply to all city parks, including but not limited to the city’s
recreational vehicle parks.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title IX, Chapter 101,
Section 101.03; Ordinance adopting Code)
(a) The city
owns a golf course located in Independence Park and established the
following rules for the use thereof:
(1) The
golf course is a restricted area and anyone other than golfers are
not permitted on the golf course.
(2) No
swimming is allowed in the water irrigation tanks located on the golf
course.
(3) No
vehicles are to be operated on the golf course other than the vehicles
permitted by the clubhouse attendant.
(4) No
playing on the golf course without the authorization of the clubhouse
attendant.
(b) The city
hereby designates the Gonzales Golf Association to promulgate rules
for the conduct of play which such rules will be posted near the clubhouse.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Title IX, Chapter 101,
Section 101.04)