[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
North Wales 9-10-1968 by Ord. No. 394; amended in its entirety 11-25-1997 by Ord. 689.
Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Borough
of North Wales Park Ordinance."
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any playground, recreation center or any other area within
the Borough of North Wales owned, used or operated by the Borough
of North Wales and devoted to active or passive recreation.
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
Any wheeled conveyance, whether motorized or self-propelled,
including but not limited to bicycles, skateboards, roller skates,
go-carts, trailers, wheelbarrows, wagons, etc. The following exhaustive
list shall not, however, be considered vehicles for purposes of this
chapter: baby carriages, vehicles operated by agents of the borough
in the service of borough property and any vehicle designed and used
to assist in the transport of handicapped individuals.
All borough parks shall be operated and maintained under the
general supervision of the Borough Council and the Public Works Department.
It shall be the duty of the Borough Administration, together with
the North Wales Borough Police Department, to enforce the provisions
of this chapter and all rules and regulations adopted thereunder.
It shall be unlawful for any person in any park to willfully
mark, deface, disfigure, injure, tamper with, displace or remove any
buildings, tables, benches, fireplaces, railings, paving, waterline
or other public utility, or parts thereof, signs, notices or placards,
whether temporary or permanent, monuments, stakes, posts or other
boundary markers, or other structures or equipment facilities or appurtenances,
whether real or personal.
It shall be unlawful for any person to annoy, injure or kill
any animals or birds in any park, nor shall any person disturb any
fowl in streams, pools or ponds or remove or carry away any bird's
nest or eggs; further, it shall be unlawful for any person to injure
or damage any tree, plant, shrub, fern, blossom, flower or turf.
No person shall bring in or dump, deposit or leave any bottles,
broken glass, ashes, paper, boxes, cans, dirt, rubbish, waste, garbage
or refuse or other trash. No such refuse shall be placed or left on
the grounds but shall be placed in proper receptacles where these
are provided. Where receptacles are not provided, all such rubbish
or waste shall be carried away from the park by the person or persons
responsible for its presence and properly disposed of elsewhere.
It shall be unlawful for any person to carry, possess or drink
any alcoholic beverage or liquor in any park.
No vehicle shall be permitted on park property, except within
areas specifically designated by authorized signs permitting the use
therein of certain designated vehicles.
In order to promote the health, safety, morals and general welfare
in the Borough of North Wales, all recreation places owned, leased
and/or maintained by the Borough of North Wales, including public
parks and playgrounds in said borough, shall be closed to the public
at all times between sunset and sunrise, and it shall be unlawful
for any person, other than a law enforcement officer or maintenance
employee of the borough, to enter or remain in said recreation place
at any time between sunset of any one day and sunrise of the following
day.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall,
upon prosecution and conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine
of not more than $600 and costs of prosecution and, in default of
payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than
30 days.
