[Added by Ord. 75-8]
Within the limits of any park or recreational area within the City, it shall be unlawful for any person to do or commit or to cause or permit to be done any of the following:
A. 
To throw upon, along or across any public highway, street, roadway or driveway any missile capable of causing personal injury or damage to personal property, or to throw such missile at or towards, or in the vicinity of any vehicle standing or moving along, upon or across any section, highway, street, roadway or driveway.
B. 
To pick, dig, move, destroy, injure, mutilate or cut any tree, plant, shrub or bloom, flower or any portion thereof, growing therein.
C. 
To cut, break, injure, deface or destroy any structure, apparatus equipment or property therein, building, monument, sign, fence or bench, or any portion thereof, any mark, writing or printing, or to attach thereto any sign, card, display or other similar device.
D. 
To throw, place or dispose of, any garbage, refuse or trash in any place therein other than into a trash can or other receptacle maintained therein for that purpose.
E. 
To disturb the peace or quiet therein by any undue loud or unusual noise, or by tooting, blowing or sounding any automobile siren, horn or signal, or any noise making device, or any tumultuous conduct, or to use any vulgar, profane or indecent language therein.
F. 
To solicit in any manner or for any purpose therein, or to sell, or offer for sale, or to peddle any goods, wares or merchandise unless such act be done pursuant to concession or permit granted by the City of Lakewood; to solicit or attempt to solicit employment, business or contribution of money or other property from any person. Solicit as used in this subsection means to ask for the immediate payment of money or goods whether or not in exchange for goods, services or other consideration.
[Amended by Ord. 99-3]
G. 
To enter any swimming pool, plunge, park or other recreational area when refused admission by the person or persons in charge thereof when the person so seeking to enter or who has entered has any contagious disease, infectious condition such as colds, ringworm, fevers, or infection with foot infections, skin lesions, carbuncle, pimples, inflamed eyes, ear discharges, excessive sunburn, abrasions which have not healed or a person who is wearing corn plasters, bunion pads, adhesive tape, rubber bandages or other type of bandages or who is afflicted with any conditions which have the appearance of being infectious or dangerous to the other persons using said pool, plunge or park or recreation area.
H. 
To bring on, use or possess any portable barbecue, grill, smoker, cooking equipment, apparatus, fire pit, or hibachi. The failure of any such person to remove the same upon demand of any City official is unlawful and is hereby declared a misdemeanor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such violation may be designated an infraction by any peace officer. Each subsequent violation within twenty-four (24) hours shall be a misdemeanor. Any abandoned, unattended or unclaimed portable barbecue, grill, smoker, cooking equipment, apparatus, fire pit, or hibachi shall be confiscated by the City.
[Added by Ord. 2004-8]
I. 
To chew, drink, swallow or use food, drink, gum or tobacco in the pool area or to unnecessarily expectorate, spout water or engage in roughness or rowdyism within the pool area of any pool, plunge, or surrounding recreation area.
J. 
To violate any rules or regulations adopted by the City where said rules and regulations have been posted in at least three public places within said pool, plunge, park or recreation area. The superintendent, manager, or his designated deputy of any pool, plunge, park or recreation area shall have authority to evict any person from said pool, plunge, park or recreation area for violation of any of the provisions of this section or other provisions of this code or of any rules and regulations adopted by the City.
No person shall operate any vehicle, or ride, or coast upon any motorcycle, or motor driven bicycle, or ride or coast upon any bicycle, or skateboard within any park and recreational area under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks and Recreation of the City of Lakewood, unless within any road or off-street parking facility thereof, or any other facility provided specifically for the use of such vehicle, bicycle, or skateboard, or within such other area designated specifically by the Department of Parks and Recreation for such use. For the purpose of this section "park and recreation area" does not include any contiguous or abutting streets.
[Added by Ord. 95-2]
Within the limits of any park or recreational area within the City, it shall be unlawful for any person to enter any part or portion thereof or to remain thereon when such attendance has been barred by the City in the following circumstances:
A. 
Except as hereinafter provided, any person has the right to enter and remain in or on any portion or part of any park or recreational area within the City provided said person is not in violation of any provision of law, this Part or the Lakewood Municipal Code, and further provided that said person is not committing a nuisance or is not violating any law and is occupying said park and recreation area during the days or hours said facility is open to public use.
B. 
No person shall enter, or remain in after requested to leave by a City employee or a member of the Law Enforcement Agency, any enclosed pool area except for the purpose of using the pool therein or for the purpose of accompanying another person or child using said facility for its intended purpose. The City Council finds that the pool areas of the City's parks, within the fenced area thereof, are to be used only for the purpose of swimming recreational purposes and, accordingly, shall be occupied only by persons intending to or using said facilities for swimming and related purposes, as well as those persons who have accompanied swimming patrons for the purpose of observation or City employees. The use of said pool areas for the exercise of rights under the First Amendment is prohibited inasmuch as the same may interfere with the attention needed to safeguard patrons using said facility.
C. 
Except as provided in Subsection E, it shall be unlawful for any person to enter or remain on or in any park or recreational area within the City when said person, by his or her conduct, is in violation of any law, or is committing a nuisance; disturbing the peace; or is endangering the public peace, health and safety. Any person upon being advised by any City or enforcement officer that said person, by his or her conduct, is in violation of the provisions of this Section, or any other provision of law or this Code, and that said person is banned from a specified part of said park or recreational area for the aforementioned reasons, shall immediately vacate the area to which the ban applies for a period of at least twenty-four (24) hours. If any such person refuses to comply with the order to vacate said portion or part of any park or recreational facility, the Director of Recreation and Community Services, or any person in charge of said facility, shall serve on said person a written notice of the order to vacate said facility and the reasons sustaining said order to vacate. No person shall remain in said facility or return to the same in violation of the terms and provisions of said order to vacate for a period of twenty-four (24) hours.
D. 
In the event any person, after being served with an order to vacate, should thereafter return to any park or recreational facility or area to which the ban applies and commit any of the acts prohibited by this Section, the Director of Recreation and Community Services, or his or her authorized deputy, may serve on said persona written notice that said person is banned from said area for a period of time in excess of twenty-four (24) hours, as specified in said notice, and furthermore setting forth the reasons justifying said ban. Said notice shall specify that the person to whom the ban applies may have a hearing on said charges before the Director of Recreation and Community Services which shall be held not less than ten (10) days and not more than thirty (30) days after the service of the ban notice under this subsection. At the hearing, the Director of Recreation and Community Services, or his or her authorized representative, shall hear all persons interested in the matter and reach a decision in writing at the time and place of hearing. Until said hearing is held, said person shall not enter or remain in any park or recreational facility to which the ban applies.
Any person aggrieved by the decision of the Director of Recreation and Community Services, or his or her authorized representative, has the right to appeal said decision in writing to the City Council for a public hearing. Said notice of appeal shall be filed with the City Clerk within ten (10) days of the decision of the Director of Recreation and Community Services, or his or her subordinate, and the City Clerk shall set the matter for hearing at the next regular meeting of the City Council held at least ten (10) days after receipt of said notice of appeal. Until the City Council hears said matter, said person is banned from entering or remaining in any such park or recreational facility. At the time of the hearing before the City Council, the City Council shall determine whether said ban is necessary in order to prevent the commission of a nuisance, the violation of any provision of law or this Code, or to protect the public peace, health and safety.
E. 
Except as provided in this Subsection, the provisions of Subsections C and D shall not be applied to any person exercising any right under the First Amendment within any park or recreational facility provided, however:
1. 
Said park and recreational area is open to public use as signified by the park and recreation office being open or a park and recreation employee being on the site.
2. 
No PA or amplifier equipment is used unless authorized by the Park Director.
3. 
Musical instruments are limited to six (6) in number unless additional instruments are authorized by the Park Director.
4. 
The activity shall not exceed two (2) hours in duration during any day unless authorized by the Park Director.
5. 
No equipment, chairs or vehicles are brought on or maintained in the park area unless authorized by the Park Director.
6. 
No signs other than temporary signs not exceeding 30 inches by 36 inches in size and which are carried by a person and not attached to any park property are brought on or maintained in the park area.
7. 
The exercise of said First Amendment right shall be peaceful and not so loud or boisterous as to disturb the peace, create a nuisance or cause a riot.
8. 
The occupancy and use of said premises shall not endanger the public health or safety of other persons occupying the same.
9. 
If the event is of a type which is or has been attended throughout the United States by gatherings of more than one hundred fifty (150) teenage or older persons, a permit shall first be obtained from the Park Director, and the Park Director shall issue such a permit if he or she finds that such occupancy will not interfere with the use of said facility by other patrons who would normally attend said park area during the time of said event and further will not endanger the public health and safety of other persons using said park area.
10. 
If at any time the number of persons attending said event exceeds one hundred (100) persons and no permit has been issued for said event, the promoter of said events and all persons attending said events shall immediately vacate said park facility when requested to do so by any personnel of the City or law enforcement agency.
In the event any of the aforementioned conditions are violated, said persons in violation thereof shall not remain on said premises after requested to leave by a City employee or a member of the law enforcement agency.
[Amended by Ord. 2020-6]
PARKWAYS
Parkways are defined as those areas located in that portion of dedicated roads, streets or highways which have been planted with lawn, bush, tree or plant vegetation.
[Amended by Ord. 2005-8; Ord. 2020-6]
It shall be unlawful for any person to do or commit, or to cause or permit to be done or committed, within or upon any such parkways any of the following:
A. 
To pick, dig, remove, destroy, injure, mutilate top or cut any tree or root system, or any portion thereof growing therein.
B. 
To cut, break, injure, deface remove or destroy any equipment or property therein, or sign, bench or monument placed thereon, or any portion thereof, or to make or place thereon or on any portion thereof any sign, card, mark, writing or printing, display or other similar device.
C. 
To throw, place or dispose of any garbage, refuse or waste on or upon said area.
D. 
To allow any vegetation, other than a City street tree, to grow to a height exceeding six (6) inches, or to place any sign, decoration, statue, lawn ornament, potted plant of any size, constructed planter, or device which will impede the safe ingress and egress of persons from vehicles parked at the curb or safe pedestrian use of the abutting sidewalk.
E. 
To allow any water or electrical line, wiring, cord, or hose, to run across the parkway area from any adjacent property to any vehicle parked in the public right-of-way.
F. 
To allow any storage of basketball hoops, skateboard ramps, bicycle ramps, or other sports equipment.
[Added by Ord. 2020-6]
The owner of the adjacent property shall be responsible for the installation, maintenance and irrigation of all plant materials in the parkway, except for the planting, trimming, and removal of City street trees.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 4160 of this Code, no person owning or having charge, care, custody or control of any dog shall cause, permit or allow the same to enter, remain or be on any park and recreational area, as herein defined, within the City of Lakewood, unless pursuant to lawful permit.
Park and recreational area, as used in this subsection, means and includes any land or facility of the City of Lakewood under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks and Recreation of the City of Lakewood set aside and designated as a public park or tot lot or other recreational area of the City of Lakewood, including any school grounds during the time a park and recreational program of the City of Lakewood is being conducted thereon. For the purposes of this subsection, park and recreational area does not include any exterior abutting streets, including the parkway area between the curb and sidewalk and the public sidewalk of such contiguous or abutting streets.
Notwithstanding any provision of this subsection to the contrary, the Director of Recreation and Community Services, or his designated deputy, may issue special permits for the conducting of dog obedience training courses within said area, provided that:
A. 
The course is under the supervision of an adult who is experienced in dog handling, training, and obedience.
B. 
Said course is confined to a location specified by the Superintendent.
C. 
A responsible adult, organization or group conducts said course and files with the City Clerk any necessary indemnity agreement, including liability insurance in those amounts fixed by the Director. Any person participating in such a course and having charge, care, custody or control of any dog shall not cause, permit or allow the same to run at large within said park and recreational area and shall keep said dog restrained by a substantial chain or leash not exceeding six feet in length except when otherwise directed by the trainer.
This subsection shall be inapplicable to any person wholly or partially blind using a guide dog provided that said dog at all times is kept under the charge, care, custody or control of such person and is restrained by substantial chain, leash, or harness not exceeding six feet in length.
Any person going on, remaining on, entering or visiting the aforementioned premises in violation of the foregoing, or refusing to leave the aforementioned premises after having violated the foregoing provisions and having been requested to do so by an authorized officer, agent or law enforcement officer of the City of Lakewood is guilty of a misdemeanor.
[Amended by Ord. 95-2]
In addition to any Police Officer or member of the law enforcement agency, the Director of Recreation and Community Services, or any deputy or subordinate employee thereof, shall enforce the provisions of this part.
[Added by Ord. 2003-7]
Pursuant to Section 22519 of the California Vehicle Code, no person shall allow any vehicle under his or her possession to enter or remain on any off-street parking facility owned by the City between the hours of 11 o'clock P.M. and 5 o'clock A.M., where signs giving notice thereof have been erected. The City Council by resolution may designate prohibited hours of parking different from above which shall be enforced whenever signs giving notice thereof have been erected.