This chapter shall be known as the City of Lancaster Park Ordinance.
This chapter comprehensively regulates the use and operation
of the parks of the City of Lancaster to assure their continued availability
and vitality for the reasons set forth above.
In the interpretation of this chapter and any rules and regulations
promulgated by the Director of Public Works pursuant to this chapter,
any provisions of the same shall be construed as follows:
A. Any term
in the singular shall include the plural.
B. Any term
in the masculine shall include the feminine and vice versa.
C. Any requirements
or provision relating to any act shall respectively extend to and
include the causing, procuring, aiding or abetting, directly or indirectly,
of such acts; or the permitting or allowing of any minor in the custody
of any persons, doing any act prohibited by any provisions thereof.
D. No provision
hereof or in any rules and regulations promulgated hereunder shall
make unlawful any act necessarily performed by any park officer, police
officer, employee of the City of Lancaster, or contractor of the City
of Lancaster, in the line of duty or work as such, or by any person,
his/her agents or employees, in the proper and necessary execution
of the terms of any agreement with the City of Lancaster.
E. Any act
otherwise prohibited hereunder or under any rules and regulations
promulgated hereunder, provided it is not otherwise prohibited by
law or local ordinance, shall be lawful if performed under, by virtue
of and strictly in compliance with the provisions of a permit or a
contractor agreement with the City of Lancaster or the Lancaster Recreation
Commission or the Long's Park Commission, to the extent authorized
pursuant to this chapter and pursuant to such agreement.
F. The provisions
of this chapter and any rules and regulations promulgated hereunder
are in addition to and supplement all state and federal laws.
Except where the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following
terms as used in this chapter and in any rules and regulations promulgated
under and pursuant to this chapter shall have the following meanings:
APPLICANT
The person or group sponsoring or organizing an event and
applying for a permit pursuant to this chapter.
CITY
The City of Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
EVENT or GATHERING
Includes, but is not limited to, public meetings, assemblies,
athletic events, classes, speech making, holding of vigils, concerts,
and other assemblages that interfere with, interrupt or exclude others
of their right to the legal use in the same area of a park. While
groups of less than 100 may constitute an event or gathering, any
organized gathering of 100 or more people shall constitute an event
or gathering.
PARK
Any lands, waters or facilities owned or leased by the City
of Lancaster and designated or used by the City of Lancaster for park
and recreation purposes. Parks include, but are not limited to, community
parks, neighborhood parks, miniparks, pocket parks, dog parks and
greenways. Parks include, but are not limited to, the following: Conestoga
Pines Park, Long's Park, Brandon Park, Buchanan Park, Culliton Park,
Holly Pointe Park, Janice Stork Corridor Park, Musser Park, Reservoir
Park, Sixth Ward Memorial Park, Crystal Park, Ewell/Gantz Playground,
Joe Jackson Tot Lot, Market Street Kids Park, Milburn Playground,
Rodney Park, South End Park, Binns Park, Ewell Plaza, Cabbage Hill
Veterans Memorial, Camba Park, Case Commons, Blanche Nevin Memorial
Park, Penn Square, Rotary Park, Triangle Park, South Duke Street Mall,
Walnut Street Fishing Area, Beau's Dream Dog Park, and Conestoga Greenway
Trail.
PERMIT
Any written authorization issued by or under the authority
of the City of Lancaster permitting specified privileges or activities
in any park.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
society, company, or organization of any kind.
RULES AND REGULATIONS
The "rules and regulations" promulgated by the Director of
Public Works pursuant to provisions of this chapter.
STREET
Any paved or unpaved road, thoroughfare, avenue, boulevard,
parkway, drive, or other public way set aside or open for purposes
of vehicular traffic, including any berm, shoulder or median strip
thereof.
No person shall be permitted within a park between sunset of
any day and sunrise of the following day (as determined by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or as otherwise determined
with the rules and regulations), except upon the issuance of a permit
issued in accordance with this chapter or except where allowed by
any rules and regulations promulgated hereunder.