[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Lockport: Art. I, 6-6-1949; Art. II, 2-6-1980. Sections 129-5, 129-8, 129-10, 129-11, 129-13, 129-14, 129-15B, C, F and G, 129-16, 129-17, 129-18, 129-23 and 129-28 amended and § 129-24 added during codification; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II. Other amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 6-6-1949]
Whenever used in this Article, the following respective terms, unless otherwise herein expressly defined, shall mean and include each of the meanings herein respectively set forth:
PARKS
All places now known as or being used as public parks, and any places so designated by resolution of the Common Council from time to time and located within the City of Lockport, New York.
PERSON
One or more persons of either sex, natural persons, corporation, partnerships, associations, joint-stock companies, societies and all other entities of any kind capable of being sued.
No person shall post, paint, affix, distribute, hand out, deliver, place, cast or leave about any bill, billboard, placard, ticket, handbill, circular or advertisement; display any flag, banner, transparency, target, sign, placard or any other matter for advertising purposes; operate any musical instrument or drum for advertising purposes or for the purpose of attracting attention to any exhibition, show, performance or other display; or solicit passengers for hire.
No person shall cause or permit any animal owned by him, in his custody or under his control, except a dog when restrained by a leash not exceeding six feet in length, to go, be or run at large, nor hitch or fasten any horse or other animal except at places provided for that purpose.
[Amended 7-3-1974[1]]
No person shall throw stones or other missiles; annoy persons; interfere with, encumber, obstruct or render dangerous any path, drive, walk or public place; climb or stand upon any wall, fence, shelter, seat, statue, tree or other structure; engage in any lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit conduct; enter or leave except at established entranceways or exits; introduce, carry, discharge or fire any firearms, firecrackers, torpedoes or other fireworks, except by written permission of the Parks Board; spit upon any walk, crossing, safety zone or the floor of any structure, bridge, platform or stairway; cast, throw or deposit on any walk, crossing, path, safety zone, floor or park surface any portion of any fruit, vegetable, foodstuff, paper, pasteboard, litter, pornographic writings, literature or pictures or other substance; cast, throw or deposit on the ice or in the ponds or lakes any sticks, stones or other matter that would tend to injure the ice for skating.
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended during codification; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II.
No person shall bring into or have in the parks any explosives, including any substance, compound or mixture or article having properties of such a character that alone or in combination or continuity with other substances or compounds may decompose suddenly or generate sufficient heat, gas or pressure, or any or all of them, to produce rapid flaming combustion or administer a destructive flow to surrounding objects.
No person shall have or carry, whether or not concealed upon his person, any instrument or weapon commonly known as a "toy pistol" or in which or upon which blank cartridges may be used, or any blank cartridges or ammunition therefor. No person shall take into the parks or have in his possession therein any rifle, shotgun or fowling piece nor any air gun, spring gun, slingshot or other instrument or weapon in which the propelling force is a spring or air.
No person shall kindle, build or maintain or use any fire except in places provided for such purpose. Any fire for which a permit has been issued by the Parks Board or in such places as have been designated shall be continuously under the care and direction of a competent person from the time it is kindled until it is extinguished. No person shall throw away or discard any lighted match, cigar or cigarette within or against any building, structure, boat, car, vehicle or enclosure or under any tree or underbush, unless it be to deposit the same in a suitable container provided for the reception thereof.
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended during codification; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II.
[Amended 5-2-1984; 11-6-1985; 5-7-1986[1]]
A. 
In any park, no person shall, between 9:00 p.m. and sunrise, remain, stay or loiter within any park, any park roadway or any park parking lot, except for sports areas that are lighted and in use.
B. 
The Common Council may, from time to time by resolution, waive the aforementioned time frame for temporary special events; said waiver shall lapse upon completion of the event.
[1]
Editor's Note: This amendment took effect immediately.
[Amended 11-2-1983]
No person shall sell or offer for sale any object or merchandise or any other thing, whether corporeal or incorporeal, nor perform any personal service for hire, except under a written permit by the Parks Board, and then only at the place or places designated in the permit.
[Amended 7-3-1979; 5-2-1984]
No person shall stand, sleep upon, lie upon or overturn any seat, bench or table in the park, nor pile or stack tables or benches one upon another, or stand, walk, jump, lie upon, sit or sleep on the table portion of any bench in the park. No person shall remove any seats, benches or tables from their designated areas nor move them closer than 30 feet to the designated walkways, roads or parking areas.
[Amended 11-2-1983]
No person shall bring into or carry within any park any tree, shrub, plant or flowers or newly plucked parts thereof without a written permit by the Superintendent of Parks.
[Amended 11-2-1983]
No person shall enter any building, enclosure or place within any park upon which the words "no admittance" shall be displayed or posted by sign, placard or otherwise, without the consent of the Parks Board.
A. 
Aviation. No person, except in an emergency, shall bring, land or cause to descend or alight within or upon the parks any airplane, flying machine, balloon, parachute or other apparatus for aviation.
B. 
Bathing. No person shall bathe, wade or swim in any park waters except at such times and in such places as the Parks Board may designate; nor shall any person dress or undress in any place in the parks except in such bathing houses as may be maintained by the City, or appear in bathing costumes at any place within the park except within the limits of designated bathing places.
[Amended 11-2-1983]
C. 
Coasting. No person shall coast with handsled, bobs, carts or other vehicles on wheels or runners except at such places and at such times as are designated therefor by the Parks Board.
[Amended 11-2-1983]
D. 
Games and picnics. No person shall throw, cast, catch, kick or strike any baseball, golf ball, football, basketball, beanbag or any other object, or play or engage in any games, except in places designated therefor. Picnics may be held in such part of such parks as shall be designated for that purpose, and portions of parks may be set aside for tennis, golf, ball, croquet and other games, subject to such regulations as may be made by the Superintendent of Parks, and no person shall join any such picnic or game without the consent of the persons of whom they are composed, or shall in any manner disturb or interfere with the same.
E. 
Horses. No person shall use, ride or drive a horse unless it is well broken and constantly held in such control that it may be easily or quickly turned or stopped, nor permit any horse owned by him or in his care or custody to be unbridled or left unattended in any unenclosed space without being securely fastened.
F. 
Meetings, exhibitions, parades, racing, etc. No person, without a written permit by the Parks Board, shall erect any structure, stand or platform; hold any meeting or service; perform any ceremony; make a speech, address or harangue; exhibit to the public any dramatic performance or the performance in whole or in part of any interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, ballet, play, farce, minstrel, dancing, entertainment, motion picture, radio, circus, juggling, rope walking or any other acrobatics; engage in any parade, drill, maneuvers or civic or other procession; or run or race any horse or other animal, or, being in a vehicle, race with another vehicle or horse. Nor shall any person use or bring into any park a sound truck, loudspeaker or mechanical device of any kind for the purpose of attracting attention or of being heard without such a written permit, and it shall be unlawful for any person to take part in any meeting, services, exhibition, parade, race, etc., held or conducted contrary to the provisions hereof. The provisions of this subsection shall be subject to the conditions imposed by any ordinance enacted in the future covering the entire City and which regulates and prohibits certain sound trucks and amplifying equipment.
[Amended 11-2-1983]
G. 
Skating and sledding. No person shall use any roller skates except at such times and upon such places as may be designated therefor by the Parks Board, or skate, sled, walk or go upon any ice except at such times and upon such places as may be designated therefor by the Parks Board to be in a safe condition therefor.
[Amended 11-2-1983]
H. 
Pavilion reservation.
[Added 2-17-1999]
(1) 
The City Clerk shall, upon written application, issue a permit for the reservation of the City's pavilions, two at Outwater Park, one at Nelson C. Goehle Park (Lockport public marina and park at Widewaters) and one at Altro Park, subject to payment of a nonrefundable fee of $25 per day for City residents and a nonrefundable fee of $40 per day for non-City residents. Pavilions are available from May 1 to October 15 of each year. Pavilions may be reserved beginning each January for the current year only.
[Amended 7-7-1999; 6-6-2001; 8-15-2001; 5-15-2002]
(2) 
Reservation policy.
(a) 
The City Clerk shall develop a written policy for the issuance of pavilion reservation permits. Said policy shall include:
[1] 
Applicant information.
[2] 
Pavilion locations.
[3] 
Nonrefundable fee: $25 per day for City residents; $40 per day for non-City residents.
[Amended 7-7-1999; 5-15-2002]
[4] 
The application must be submitted no less than 15 days prior to the event.
[5] 
Event date, including arrival and departure time.
[6] 
Number of persons expected to attend the event.
[7] 
Copies of all permits to be forwarded to the Lockport Police Department and Highways and Parks Department. The Highways and Parks Department shall post the permit at the pavilion 24 hours prior to the event.
[8] 
The application will be approved based on the date of application and receipt of the fee.
[9] 
It shall be a violation of this Subsection H for any person/group to fail to vacate/surrender a pavilion to a person/group possessing a valid reservation permit.
[Added 3-17-1999]
[10] 
In the event that any pavilion is reserved after summer programming has concluded and rest rooms are closed, persons reserving the pavilion may obtain a rest room key for a deposit of $10 payable to the City Clerk, which shall be refunded upon return of the key.
[Added 9-6-2000]
(b) 
It shall be the duty of the Lockport Police Department to enforce said reservation policy.
[Amended 11-2-1983]
No person shall injure, mark, write upon, deface, displace, remove, fill in, raise, destroy or tamper with any drive, path, walk, bridge or approach thereto; take up or remove or carry away any asphalt, concrete, flagstone, rock, stone, gravel, sand, clay or earth; or make any excavation of any kind, name or nature; or harvest, cut, injure or remove any ice; or injure or deface, displace, remove or destroy any structure, building, post, railing, bench, seat, platform, stand, tree guard, telephone, telegraph, pipe or main for conducting gas, water or wires, or any hydrant, sewer, drain, pipe, main, receiving basin, cover, manhole or vent forming a part thereof, or any appurtenances or appendages connected therewith, or any other property or equipment, real or personal, owned by the City or under the jurisdiction or control of the Parks Board or appertaining to the creation, government, use or maintenance of the parks; or injure or in any way interfere with the operation of any machine, instrument or contrivance used in the parks; or injure, deface, displace, remove or destroy any sign, inscription, post or monument erected or marked for any purpose, or mileboard, milestone, danger sign or signal, guide sign or post or any signaling device within the parks for the purpose of directing, restricting or regulating traffic establishing zones or giving information or directions to the public; or interfere with any lamp, lamppost or light apparatus, or extinguish the lights therein except upon the authority of the Parks Board; or, without a permit, attach, string, adjust or carry any wires or other objects in or over any part of the parks.
No person shall destroy, cut, break, deface, mutilate, injure, disturb, sever from the ground or remove any plant, flower, flower bed, shrub, tree, growing thing, plant growth or any branch, stem or leaf thereof; or pile or maintain any material or debris of any kind against or upon the same; or attach any rope, cable or other contrivance thereto; or set fire or assist another to set fire to any timber, trees, shrubs, plants, flowers, grass or plant growth; enter or walk upon any planted place; or to hitch any horse or animal to, or leave the same standing near enough to injure, the lawn or grass plot; or go upon the same, except at such time when permission to do so has been given to the public by the Parks Board.
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended during codification; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II.
No person shall molest, kill, wound, trap, hunt, take, chase, shoot or throw missiles at, remove or have in his possession any animal, bird, bird's nest or squirrel's nest, or remove the young of any such animal or the eggs or young of any such bird; or knowingly buy, receive, have in his possession, sell or give away such animal, bird or egg so taken. No person, except under a written permit by the Parks Board, shall fish in any of the park waters. No person shall kill, wound, discharge or throw missiles at any fish in such waters, or place therein any piscivorous fish, poison or any other substance injurious to fish.
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended during codification; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II.
No person shall, within or without the parks, throw, cast, lay, drop or discharge into or leave in the waters of the parks or any tributary brook, stream, storm or drain flowing into such waters, any substance, matter or thing, liquid or solid, which may or shall result in the pollution of such waters.
No person shall take into, carry through, leave in, or throw, cast, lay, drop or discharge into or on, or suffer or permit any servant, agent, employee or person in his charge to take into, carry through, leave in, or throw, cast, lay, drop or discharge into or on, the parks any ashes, dress, cinders, shells, paper, dirt, sand, oil, grease, clay, loam, stone or building rubbish, brush, stump, hay, straw, oats, sawdust, shavings or manufacturing or trade or household wastes, old iron or other metal or objects made therefrom, or rubbish of any sort, or sick, diseased or dead animals, organic refuse or other offensive matter, including swill, brine, urine, offal, fecal matter, garbage or rubbish.
A. 
Commercial vehicles. No person shall drive or operate within the parks any motor vehicle used solely for commercial purposes, except on park business.
B. 
Demonstration and instruction vehicles. No person shall use the park drives for the purpose of demonstrating any vehicle, or for the purpose of instructing another to drive or operate any vehicle, or for learning to drive or operate any vehicles.
C. 
Towing. No person shall cause or permit a vehicle in tow of another vehicle to enter the parks or proceed therein, except that in case of a breakdown, a disabled vehicle may be towed to the nearest exit.
A. 
Vehicles prohibited in certain areas. No person shall drive a vehicle within or upon a walk, bridle path or any part of the park not designated or customarily used for such purpose. No person shall ride a bicycle, tricycle, velocipede or motorcycle upon any walk or footpath, but persons may push such machines in single file along the same.
B. 
Obeying officers. Whenever any traffic officer or other patrolman shall indicate or direct, by gesture or otherwise, that the speed or course of a vehicle shall be changed or altered, the driver thereof shall immediately obey such directions.
C. 
Parking. No owner or driver or person exercising control over any vehicle shall cause or permit his vehicle to stand anywhere outside of the designated parking area except in an emergency or for a reasonable time to take on or discharge passengers. Nor shall any persons lie, stand or sit upon the fenders, hood, trunk or top of vehicles parked along the roadway in the parks. Nor shall they stand leaning against any vehicle parked along a roadway in the park in any manner which might expose them to possible injury from passing vehicles or which might impede the flow of traffic on such roadway.
[Amended 7-3-1974]
D. 
Exceptions. Nothing herein contained in this article shall apply to the wagons and apparatus of the Fire and Police Departments or to any ambulance or to emergency repair wagons or other vehicles of the Park Department when responding for emergency work in case of fire, accident, public disaster, impending danger or emergency or for park business.
E. 
Overnight parking. No person shall park a vehicle between 9:00 p.m. and sunrise in any park parking lot unless authorized by Chapter 183, Vehicles and Traffic.
[Added 7-21-2004]
[Amended 11-2-1983]
A. 
Supervision. The use and management of all public parks within said City shall be vested in the Parks Board, which shall perform said duties in addition to those stated in § C-63A of the City Charter. It shall issue all permits for the use of said parks and prescribe the conditions thereof, and the Superintendent of Parks shall prepare and deliver written permits so authorized.
B. 
Executive officer. The Superintendent of Parks mentioned in said section of the Charter shall be the chief executive officer of said Board in the supervision, use and management of all public parks.
C. 
Permits. Whenever the Superintendent of Parks is authorized to issue a permit as provided in this article, every person claiming to have such permit shall produce and exhibit the same upon the request of any authorized person, and all permits shall be subject to the provisions of this article, and the holders thereof must strictly observe the conditions thereof and the provisions of the ordinances of the City relating to the same. Any permit may be peremptorily revoked by the officer issuing the same in case of any violation of the terms on which the same was issued or of any ordinance relating to the same by the holder thereof.
D. 
No person shall refuse to obey any orders or requests of the Superintendent of Parks or any park officer or policeman having for their object the preservation of the parks within said City, their contents or maintenance of order or decorum therein.
E. 
The Mayor of the City of Lockport is empowered to designate public servants who shall be specifically authorized pursuant to this article to issue and serve appearance tickets to persons in and around City parks for petty offenses and violations of the City and Parks Department rules, regulations and ordinances. Said authority is limited to occasions where the public servant has reasonable cause to believe that a person has committed a petty offense in his presence.
[Added 8-17-1989 by L.L. No. 1-1989]
[Added 5-2-1984]
A. 
No person shall consume or possess any alcoholic beverage within 100 feet of any playground or pool area.
B. 
No person shall consume or possess any open container of alcoholic beverages in any vehicle parked on any roadway or parking lot.
C. 
No person shall consume any alcoholic beverage in any other area of a park except for picnic and sports areas.
[1]
Editor's Note: On 5-2-1984, former § 129-24, Penalties for offenses, was renumbered as § 129-24.2.
[Added 5-2-1984]
A. 
No person shall play any radio, phonograph, tape player or any musical instrument at any time in such a manner or at such a volume as to annoy or disturb any other person.
B. 
No person shall cause or permit any loud or disturbing talking, shouting, singing, music or other noise to be made of such intensity, character or duration as to annoy or disturb any other person.
C. 
The foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply to any organized activities that have received specific prior written permission from the Parks Board or the Superintendent of Parks.
[Added 11-2-1983]
An offense against the provisions of this article shall constitute a violation under the Penal Law and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $250 or by imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both.
[Adopted 2-6-1980]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
POSSESS
To have physical possession or otherwise to exercise dominion or control, to take into, hold, leave, dispose or drop.
USE
To utilize or employ.
A. 
This Article shall apply to the following-designated City parks:
Altro Park.
Carveth Packet Park.
Darrison Park.
Dolan Park.
Dudley Square.
East Avenue Park.
Grossi Memorial Park.
High Street Park.
Lakeview Parkway.
Lincoln Park.
Lockport Public Marina and Park.
Locust Street Park.
Market Street Park and Playground.
Niagara Street Park.
Outwater Park.
Raymond C. Betsch Packet Park.
Rogers Avenue Playground.
Rollin T. Grant Gulf Wilderness Park.
Sutlif-Rotary Park.
Veterans Memorial Park.
West Avenue Park.
William Street Playground.
B. 
Any additional City parks which are created shall be subject to this Article.
An offense against the provisions of this Article shall constitute a violation under the Penal Law and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $250 or by imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both.
[1]
Editor's Note: Amended during codification; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II.