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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1967-0546 - Ordinance - 11/27/1967BCORUM & PEASE ORDINANCE NO. 546 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE CONDUCT OF PERSONS WITHIN PARK AND RECREATION AREAS OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STA- TION LOCATED WITHIN OR WITHOUT THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF SAID CITY; PROVIDING PENALTIES; REPEALING CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of College Station, Texas: SECTION 1. That the following rules and regulations shall be in force in all park or recreation areas including playgrounds, golf courses and swimming pools of the City of College Station located within or without the corporate limits of said City: 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to cut, deface or mark any park property, or to handle, cut, pluck, injure, damage or destroy any flower, shrub or tree, or to deface, mark, injure, damage or destroy any natural or artificial improve- ment in any park or recreation area. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or enter upon any golf course or other park or recreation facilities for which a fee is charged, without first having paid said fee. Payment of said fee shall entitle the person to use the facilities for the sole purpose for which the facility is intended or designated. fi 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to frighten, annoy or injure, or attempt to frighten, annoy or injure, any wild or native animal or bird in any park or rec- reation area. 11110 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to deposit paper, glass, metal, litter or trash of any description on any lawn, driveway, path or other place in any park and W recreation area except in receptacles provided therefor. (1) 5. It shall be unlawful for any person to display any advertising matter by signs f1. or to distribute advertising matter of any character within any parkways, medians, parks, golf courses, swimming pools or other recreation areas of the City of Col- lege Station without permission of the City Council. s) 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or offer for sale any goods, wares, ser - 0 vices or merchandise within any parkways, medians, parks, playgrounds, swim- tY) ming pools or other recreation areas without permission of the City Council. Oi3t 0 BOORUM & PEASE Ordinance No. 546 Page 2 7. It shall be unlawful for any person to practice golf in any portion of a park or recreation area not designated for that purpose; provided, however, that the practice of golf with knit or plastic balls may be permitted in any open area not specifically designed or designated for some other specialized activity. 8. It shall be unlawful for any person to use any boisterous, insulting or profane language or to conduct oneself in a disorderly, lewd, obscene or lascivious manner in any park, golf course, swimming pool or recreation area. 9. It shall be unlawful for any person to enter any portion of a park or recreation area which is designated as restricted, or to enter any area during the hours of the day when said area is not open to the public or to enter at any time any park and recreation area which is closed for the season. 10. It shall be unlawful for any owner or person in control of any dog to keep or permit the same in or about any park or recreation area unless such dog is kept under restraint at all times by means of a leash. 11. It shall be unlawful for any person to tether or pasture, or allow or cause to be tethered or pastured, any cow, horse, mule, fowl or domestic animal in or upon any park or recreation area. 12. It shall be unlawful for any person to wash a vehicle in any park or recreation area not designated for that purpose. 13. It shall be unlawful for any person to fly a kite or propel or guide a model air- plane in any park or recreation area traversed by high voltage transmission lines. 14. It shall be unlawful for any person to carry on or about his person or discharge any gun, pistol or firearms of any kind, including air guns, within or across any park or recreation area not designated for that purpose. 15. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to wade, swim, fish or boat within any park or recreation area not so designated. 16. Traffic regulations: A. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive or propel any vehicle in, over or through any park or recreation area except along and upon park drives, streets or boulevards or other areas designated for driving purposes. B. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle upon any park - drive, boulevard, street, or other vehicular thoroughfare at a speed in excess of the posted speed limit. Q1361 Ordinance No. 546 Page 3 17. Compliance with rules and regulations of this ordinance is a condition of the use of the public parks and recreation areas of the City, and any person charged with the supervision of any park or recreation area and all police officers shall have the right and power to arrest any person who may violate any of the rules, regulations, orders or requirements of any ordinance or general law relating to the maintenance of the park and recreation areas of the City of College Station located within or without the corporate limits of said City. SECTION 2. Should any section, clause or provision of this ordinance be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the same shall not effect the validity of this ordinance as a whole or any part thereof other than the part so declared to be invalid. SECTION 3. That this ordinance shall repeal every prior ordinance in conflict herewith, but only insofar as the portion of such prior ordinance shall be in conflict, and as to all other sec- tions of ordinances not in direct conflict herewith, this ordinance shall be and is hereby made cumulative except as to such ordinance or portions thereof as are expressly repealed hereby. SECTION 4. W That any person who violates, disobeys, omits, neglects or refuses to comply with < any provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by LI CL a fine not to exceed Two Hundred Dollars ($200. 00). Cr) c& SECTION 5. That this ordinance shall become effective and be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication as required by law. PASSED AND APPROVED this 27th day of November, 1967. APPROVED: aXlighlt0 MAYOR ATTEST: @ter City Secretary 01382