As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
CONTROLLED LANDS
Includes all parks, playgrounds and sports fields located within
the Village of Elmsford and all municipally owned or controlled green lands,
paper streets, undeveloped rights-of-way and parking lots used in conjunction
with shopping centers located within the Village of Elmsford.
PERSON
Includes a human being, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated
association, a partnership or a governmental agency.
[Amended 6-17-2002 by L.L. No. 4-2002]
The following regulations shall be observed at all times within any
park, playground and sports field:
A. No person shall disturb the peace and good order in any
park, playground and sports field by fighting, quarreling or wrangling with
loud voices or shouts, threatening violence to any person or the property
of others or engaging in clamor or boisterous shouts or conduct or tumult.
B. No person shall collect in any park, playground or sports
field in bodies or crowds for unlawful purposes or boisterous or riotous assemblage
or for the purpose of intentionally annoying, harassing or inflicting property
damage or bodily injury to another person or persons.
C. No person shall beg, hawk, peddle or solicit within a
park, playground or sports field unless he or she has previously obtained
a permit authorizing such conduct from the Village Board.
D. No person shall play golf or hit any golf ball with any
golf club in any park, playground or sports field.
E. No person shall loiter in or near toilet buildings in
a park.
F. No person, except authorized Village employees for the
purpose of cleaning or repair, shall enter a toilet room set aside for the
opposite sex.
G. No person shall bring or keep any dog, cat, household
pet or other animal in any park, playground or sports field, except that Seeing
Eye dogs are permitted in parks, playgrounds and sports fields.
H. No person shall enter, loiter or remain upon or within
any park, playground or sports field in a vehicle or otherwise after sunset
without a written permit from the Village Clerk or, except in an emergency,
cause or permit any vehicle during any part of the nighttime to remain standing
in any park, playground or sports field except when its occupant are attending
a gathering or function or special event staged therein, upon written permission
of the Village Clerk.
I. No person shall smoke any cigarette, cigar or pipe of
any nature or content in any park, playground or sports field.
J. No person shall bet or gamble on any game which is played,
conducted, dealt or carried on with cards, dice or other device, nor shall
any person bet or gamble on any sporting event being played in any park, playground
or sports field, for money, chips, credit or any other representative of value,
nor shall any person maintain or exhibit any gaming table or other instrument
of gambling therein except at functions authorized by the Village by issuance
of a permit.
K. No person, except authorized peace officers or other
law enforcement officers, shall have, carry, or transport any firearm, air
gun, switchblade, hunting knife, slingshot, dagger, metal knuckles, bow, arrow,
or other dangerous weapon in any park, playground or sports field.
L. No person shall injure, deface, disturb or dirty any
part of a park, playground, or sports field or any buildings, signs, equipment
or other property found therein.
M. Refuse is not to be dropped, thrown or scattered on park,
playground or sports field property. All such material, including cans and
other metallic substances containing sharp edges, shall be deposited in receptacles
provided for such purpose.
N. No person shall, either within or outside of a park,
playground or sports field, discharge into, throw, cast, lay, drop or leave
in any river, brook, stream, storm sewer or drain flowing into or through
a park, playground or sports field any substance, matter or thing, either
liquid or solid, which may or shall result in the pollution of said river,
brook or stream within any park, playground or sports field, interfere with
the natural resources of any park, playground or sports field or endanger
the health of visitors to any park, playground or sports field.
O. No person shall appear in a park in a state of nudity
or dressed in such a manner as to indecently expose his or her person.
P. No person shall commit, perform or engage in any lewd,
lascivious, obscene or indecent act or behavior in a park.
No person shall tent or camp or erect or maintain a tent, shelter or
camp in or upon any controlled lands unless said camp or overnight sleeping
is part of a program approved by the Village Clerk with written permit therefor.
No person shall kindle, build, maintain or use a fire in any place in
or upon controlled lands, except cooking fires shall be permitted in picnic
areas designated for outdoor cooking by permit from the Village Clerk. Any
such fire shall be under the continuous care and control of a competent person
over 21 years of age, from the time it is kindled until it is completely extinguished,
and no fire shall be built within 10 feet of any tree, shrub or building or
branches of any tree or shrub or in any underbrush. Nothing herein shall be
deemed to modify or supersede any provisions of the codes and laws of the
Village of Elmsford.
No person shall destroy, cut, pick, deface, mutilate, injure, disturb
or remove any plant, flower, shrub, tree, growing thing or plant growth located
in or upon any controlled lands or attach any rope, cable or contrivance thereto
or set fire to any timber, tree, shrub or plant growth or suffer any fire
upon other lands to extend onto any controlled lands.
All written permits as heretofore required shall be in the immediate
possession of persons then and there using said controlled lands and shall
be exhibited to any elected official, police officer, the Village Clerk or
the Superintendent of Highways of the Village of Elmsford upon demand. Failure
to produce said permit shall be presumptive evidence that no such permit has
been issued.
[Added 6-1-1992 by L.L. No. 13-1992;
amended 6-17-2002 by L.L. No. 4-2002]
Except in Carol Nichols Park, no person shall engage in skateboarding,
roller-blading or roller-skating in or upon any controlled lands.
[Amended 7-10-2006 by L.L. No. 4-2006]
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall be guilty
of violation and, upon the first conviction thereof, shall be subject to a
fine which shall not exceed $100 and, on any subsequent conviction thereof,
shall be subject to a fine which shall not exceed $500 or to imprisonment
for a period not to exceed 15 days, or to both such fine and imprisonment,
for each violation.