The department of parks and recreation is established within the classified service of the city pursuant to Chapter 2.12. The functions of this department are to provide opportunities for wholesome, year-round public recreation service for each age group and to develop and maintain in an attractive and safe manner the park and recreation areas and facilities of the city, and to insure that such facilities are suitable for a wide variety of recreation purposes.
(Prior code § 2-508)
The director of parks and recreation shall be appointed according to the provisions of Chapter 2.32. He or she shall administer, subject to authority of the city manager, the park and recreation program of the city.
(Prior code § 2-509)
The duties and responsibilities of the park and recreation department shall be to:
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Employ required personnel, such as assistants, supervisors, leaders and clerical and maintenance employees in accordance with civil service proceedings and supervise them in the performance of their various duties;
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Administer, operate and maintain existing park and recreation areas and facilities and plan for the acquisition, development and operation of the proposed facilities in accordance with policies approved by the park and recreation commission and the city council;
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Inform the general public of the services and facilities being provided by the park and recreation department;
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Solicit suggestions from the general public to improve or increase the effectiveness of the service;
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Cooperate with governmental and voluntary organizations and agencies in the furtherance of recreation opportunities;
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Prepare manuals, bulletins and reviews on recreation problems;
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Provide, upon request, assistance of a technical nature to community agencies and organizations having problems relating to park and recreation areas and facilities and programs;
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Counsel with officials of public and private organizations and interested groups concerning community recreation and leisure activities and assist them in the promotion of recreation services;
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Conduct studies of local conditions and needs for recreation services and assist with recruitment and training of recreation personnel;
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Prepare a budget for the approval of the park and recreation commission and present the budget to the city council;
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Enforce all rules and regulations, resolutions and ordinances of the city pertaining to public behavior in all park and recreation areas.
(Prior code § 2-510)
The words "public park," "park" or "recreation area" means and include any public parks or outdoor area, owned or operated by the city of Hawthorne or Hawthorne redevelopment area, open to the general public for primarily recreational purposes, regardless of any fee or age requirement, including, but not limited to, picnic areas, playgrounds, sports or athletic fields, walking paths, gardens, hiking trails, bike paths, skateboard parks and dog parks. A public park, park or recreation area shall include all buildings and structures located within the park, such as restrooms, gym, auditorium, banquet facilities, meeting rooms as well as the areas adjacent to these buildings and structures that are within twenty feet from any doorway, entryway, window, opening or vent.
(Prior code § 2-511; Ord. 1971 § 1, 2010)
A. 
Purpose. It is the intent of the city council of the city of Hawthorne to control exposure to secondhand smoke by prohibiting smoking at certain locations, including, but not limited to, public parks, and city-owned and/or maintained recreation areas, except specifically designated smoking area(s) as set forth below, in addition to those areas where smoking is prohibited by state law. The California Air Resources Board has identified environmental tobacco smoke, or secondhand smoke, as a toxic air contaminant, which may cause and contribute to death or serious illness, including increased risks of cancer, and is especially hazardous to children and people with asthma and other respiratory problems. The intent and purpose of prohibiting smoking in public parks and recreation areas is to protect the public health, safety, and welfare by reducing the number of locations in the city where exposure to secondhand smoke can occur. The provisions of this section are intended to be a supplement to existing state law smoking prohibitions and restrictions.
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Prohibition and Exception to Prohibition. Smoking within any public park, park or recreation area is prohibited, except in specifically designated smoking area(s) identified in subsection 1, below. "Smoking" or "to smoke" means the possession of a lighted tobacco product, lighted tobacco paraphernalia, or any other lighted weed or plant, including a lighted pipe, cigar, hookah pipe, or cigarette of any kind; and the lighting of a tobacco product, tobacco paraphernalia, or any other weed or plant, including a pipe, cigar, hookah pipe, or cigarette of any kind. Tobacco product and tobacco paraphernalia are defined in Section 8.48.010.
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Memorial Center, 3901 W. El Segundo Blvd., Hawthorne, California.
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Tobacco Waste. The disposal of any tobacco product or tobacco paraphernalia within any public park, park or recreational area is prohibited, except in a city-designated waste receptacle, or unless being done as part of a scene in a film, television or live performance production pursuant to Chapter 5.96 of the Hawthorne Municipal Code.
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Posting of Signs. The city shall cause the installation of "No Smoking" signs, with letters of no less than one inch in height and including the international "No Smoking" symbol consisting of a pictorial representation of a burning cigarette enclosed in a red circle crossed by a red bar. Such signs shall be clearly and conspicuously posted and maintained at all main entrances to a public park or recreational area and additional signs shall be posted in a quantity and manner reasonably likely to inform individuals occupying the public park or recreational area that smoking is prohibited within the area.
Designated smoking area(s) are identified by a sign with letters of no less than one inch in height and including a visual indicator that the location is a designated smoking area.
(Ord. 1971 § 2, 2010; Ord. 2189 § 2, 2019)
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Nothing in Section 2.22.125 shall be construed to prohibit smoking in any area in which smoking is already prohibited by state or federal law unless the applicable state or federal law permits additional local regulation.
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Nothing in Section 2.22.125 shall be construed to grant any person an affirmative right to smoke or permit smoking in any area in which smoking is otherwise prohibited by this section or state or federal law, or prohibited by a person with property rights in the no-smoking area.
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No person shall willfully mutilate or destroy any sign required by Section 2.22.125.
(Ord. 1971 § 3, 2010)
It is unlawful for any person within any public park, except as provided in Section 2.22.140, to:
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Operate, drive, park or leave standing any motor vehicle, or any other vehicle, or any mechanically-driven model airplane or other model vehicle, or to ride any horse or other animal at any time; provided, however, that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to those specific areas within said public parks which by order of the city council, or by authority of any officers or employees of said city having supervision in or over such public parks, may now or hereafter be designated for public parking purposes; provided further, that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the operation, driving or parking of any vehicle or vehicles owned by or in the lawful service of the city, or to the operation, driving or parking of delivery and commercial vehicles actually engaged in making lawful deliveries or pickups of any goods, wares, merchandise or supplies into or from said public parks, or engaged in the performance of an authorized service for the city therein, or to any employee of the city while said employee is actually engaged in the performance of his or her work for the city in said park, or is actually going to or from his or her place of employment in said park;
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Lead or let loose any wild animals, cattle, horse, mule, goat, sheep, swine, dog or fowl of any kind; provided, that this subsection shall not apply to seeing-eye dogs when led by a cord or chain not more than six feet long;
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Carry or discharge any firearms, fire crackers, rockets, torpedoes or any other fireworks, or air gun, or sling shot, without special written permit from the city council;
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Cut, break, injure, deface or disturb any tree, shrub, plant, rack, building, monument, fence, bench or other structure, apparatus or property, or pluck, pull up, cut, take out or remove any shrub, bush, plant or flowers, or remove or write upon any building, monument, fence, bench or other structure, except in connection with and in the course of actual duties being performed as an employee of the city;
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Cut or remove any wood, turf, grass, soil, rock, sand or gravel, except in connection with and in the course of actual duties being performed as an employee of the city;
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Posting on Public Property Prohibited. No person, except a duly authorized public officer or employee, shall erect, construct or maintain, paste, paint, print, nail, tack or otherwise fasten or affix, any card, banner, handbill, campaign sign, poster, sign, advertisement, or notice of any kind, or cause or suffer the same to be done, on any curbstone, lamppost, pole, bench, hydrant, bridge, wall, tree, sidewalk or structure in or upon any city park, public street, alley, or upon any other public property, except as may be required or permitted by ordinance or law; no person shall deface, mar or disfigure any bridge, fence, building or other structure belonging to city, or any tree located in any city park or other public property or place, by painting, cutting, scratching or breaking the same, or attaching or affixing anything thereto. Any handbill or sign found posted, or otherwise affixed upon any public property contrary to the provisions of this section may be removed by the police department, department of parks and community services or the department of public works. The person responsible for any such illegal posting shall be liable for the cost incurred in the removal thereof and the department of public works is authorized to effect the collection of such cost;
G. 
Make or kindle a fire, except in picnic stoves provided for that purpose, unless a special written permit is obtained in advance from the director of parks and recreation;
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Camp or lodge, unless a special written permit is obtained in advance from the director of parks and recreation;
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Indulge in riotous, boisterous, threatening or indecent conduct, or use abusive, profane or indecent language;
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Sell or offer for sale any merchandise, article or thing whatsoever without first obtaining a business license and permit pursuant to Chapter 5.57A of the Hawthorne Municipal Code;
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Practice, carry on, conduct or solicit for any trade, occupation, business or profession, or circulate any petition of whatsoever kind or character without special written permit from the director of parks and recreation;
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Play or engage in any activity excepting at such place or places as shall be set apart for that purpose;
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Remain, stay or loiter between the hours of eleven p.m. of any day, and six a.m. the following day, without special written permit from the director of parks and recreation;
N. 
Deposit any paper, fruit, rubbish, debris or any waste material of any kind except in such receptacles as may be located in such park therefor;
O. 
Bring, possess, exhibit, transport or drink any alcoholic or intoxicating beverage without special permit from the city council;
P. 
Loiter in or about any public toilet or enter any public toilet designated for the opposite sex; except that this provision shall not apply to persons under eight years of age, or to municipal employees in the regular course of their duties;
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Call, hold, conduct, arrange for or be present at any distinct, individual or separate, group, gathering, lodge, association, company, corporate or other picnic, meeting or assembly having, or which will have in excess of twenty-five persons in attendance thereat without special written permit from the director of parks and recreation;
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To use or attempt to use or interfere with the use of any table, space or facility in said parks which at the time is reserved by written reservation then in effect to any other person or persons; provided, however, that all such reservations shall specify the period covered by same and shall be subject to cancellation by the director of parks and recreation or his authorized representative. Unless the actual use of the table, space or facility referred to in any reservation is commenced within thirty minutes after the period covered by such reservation, such reservation shall thereupon be void and all rights under such reservation may be canceled by the director of parks and recreation or authorized representative;
S. 
No person shall climb buildings, fencing, trees, railings, baseball backstops and picnic shelters;
T. 
Set-up or operate a propane barbecue device to cook food. Only city of Hawthorne sponsored events are exempt from this provision;
U. 
Arrange for, set-up or operate a jumper, defined as inflatable bouncers, slides, combo units, interactive inflatables or other inflatable objects where children or adults are encouraged to bounce around. Only city of Hawthorne sponsored events are exempt from this provision.
(Prior code § 2-512; Ord. 971 § 1, 1970; Ord. 1047 §§ 1, 2, 1973; Ord. 1772 § 1, 2003; Ord. 1790 § 1, 2004; Ord. 1890 §§ 1, 2, 2007; Ord. 2173 § 1, 2019)
A. 
Any violation of any provision of Sections 2.22.125, 2.22.126 and 2.22.130 of the Hawthorne Municipal Code may be prosecuted as a misdemeanor, as an infraction or as a civil administrative action in the discretion of the city attorney or city prosecutor. Arrests may be made by any peace officer and administrative citations may be issued pursuant to Chapter 1.23A and Chapter 1.23B by any peace officer or other personnel specified in Section 1.20.040 of the Hawthorne Municipal Code.
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The remedies provided by this section are cumulative and in addition to any other remedies available at law or in equity.
C. 
Causing, permitting, aiding, abetting, or concealing a violation of any provision of Section 2.22.125, 2.22.126 or 2.22.130 shall also constitute a violation of this section.
D. 
Any violation of Section 2.22.125, 2.22.126 or 2.22.130 is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
(Ord. 1971 § 4, 2010)
Dogs led by chain or leash not more than six feet long shall be permitted in Glasgow Park during regular park hours.
(Ord. 1790 § 2, 2004)