HomeMy WebLinkAbout2191 ORDINANCE NO. 2191
AN ORDINA[~CE relatin~ to the care, government, control, supez, vision
and operation of public parks; regulating the use ~ereof; regulating ~he
conduct therein~ providing penalties, and repealing Ordinance No. ~00.
THE CITY OF BRE~LE~TON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 101. This Ordinance shall be known and may be cited as
Park Code of tl-~' City of Bremerton.
Section 10~. The following terms, phrases, words and their deriva-
tions wi'i~ have the m~a~_ing given kerein, unless inconsistent with the
context. Words usin6 t~e present ~nse include the f~r'e. ¥~0rds in the
plural n~nber include the singular n~ber, and words in ~he singul~.,r n~-
bet include the plural n~ber. The word "shall" is always mandatory and
not merely directive:
(a) "Superintendent" is the person i~ediately in charge of all park
aress and their activities, ~nd to whom all park attendants o[' any az~ea are
responsi0te.
'(b) "Park" is a park, playground, beach, recreation center, or any
other area in the City of Brem rton owned or used by the City and devoted
to active or passive recreation.
(c) "Person" is any person, firm, partnership, association, corpora-
tion, company or organization of any kind.
Section 103. It is unlawful to use, place or erect any signboard,
sign, billboard, bulletin board, post, pole or device of any kind for adver-
tising in any park; or to at~ach any notice, bill, poster', sign, wire, ~'od
or cord to any sree, shrt~b, railing, post or stru. ct~'e within any park; or
withou~ the ~rAtten cons~ of the Superintendent, to place or erect in any
park, a structure of any kind; frovided, that the Superintendent may permit
the erection of temporary directional signs cz' decorations on occasions of
public celebration and ~:icnics.
Section 104. It is unlawf~,tl to remove, destroy, mutilate or de,ace
any structure, mon~ent, s~atue, v~se, fountain, wall, fence, railing:, ve-
hicle, ~anch, shrub, tree, fern, plant, flower, lighting system, or sprink-
ling system or other property lawfully in any park.
Section 105. It is unlawful ~o allow or permit any animal to run at
large in any park, or enter any lake, pond, four,rain or s~tream therein.
Section 106. It is unlawful to shoot, fire or explode any firearm,
fireworks, f~recracker, torpedo o~~ explosive of any kind or to carry any
firearm or to shoot or fire any air gun, bows and arrows, B.B. gun or use
any stinashot in any park, e:<cept the Superintendent may ~authorize archery,
and ~ne firinb of small bore arms ancJ fireworks at designated times and
places suitable Lot their use.
Section 107. It is unlawful in any manner to tease, annoy, dist..zrb,
mol. est, catch, f"njure or kill or to throw any stone or missile of any kind
at o~. st~ike with any stick or weapon, any animal, 0ird o~' fowl.
Section 108. No person shall solicit alms or contributions for any
purpose, whether public or private, nor expose or offer for sale any arti-
cle or thin~, noz. s~atl any person station or place any ~.~tand, cart or
hicle for the transportation, sale cz~ ¢]isplay of any such article or thing,
except the licensed concessionaire acting by and under the autho~'ity of the
Superintendent.
Section 109. It is unlawful bo hold, or participate in, any religious
or political meeting or o'ther assembly in any ~rk, without the written per-
mission o.f t~e Sup rintenden'~ so to do.
Section 110. it is unlawful to ride or drive any bicycle, tricycle,
motorcycle, motor vehicle, horse or pony over or through any park except a-
long and upon ~,~ze par~ drives, parkways, parM boulevards and bicycle paths;
or at a speed in excess of fifteen miles per hour; or to stand or Mark any
vehicle, except in areas desie~nated by the Superintendent.
Section 111. It is unlawful to practice or play golf, baseball, crick-
et, lacrosse, p01o, archery~ hockey, tennis, sa~ninton, or other games of
like character or to hurl or propel any airborne or other missile except at
places set apart for such purposes by the Superintendent.
Section 11~. No person in a park shall throw, discharge, o~' otherwise
place or cause to 0e placed in L/he waters of any fountain, pond, bay or
other bo~y of water in or adjacent ~o any park or storm sewer, or drain
ORDINANCE NO. 2191 (CON'T)
flowing into such waters, any substance, matter or thing, liquid or solid,
which will or may result in the pllution of said wate~,s. No person in a
park s~'~all have brought in or si~_alt d~nnp, deposit, or leave any bottles,
broken glass, as'.aes, paper, ooxes, cans, dirt, rubbish, waste, garbage, or
r~fuse, or o~her trash. ~o such refuse or trash shall be placed in any
waters in or conti~uous to any park, or left anywhere on the grounds there-
of, bn~ shall be placed in the proper receptacles where the~,e are provided;
~here receptacles are no~ so pro,~'ided, all such rubbish o¥' waste shall be
carried away from the parM by the ~erson responsible, for its presence, and
properly disposed of elsewhere.
Section 11~o It is unl~wful ~o build any fires in any park except
in aroas designated by the Superintendent.
Section 114o It is unlawful to bring into or consume in any park any
~hiskey, wine, oeer or other into~icatin~, liquors.
Section !1~. Except for u~usual a~nd unforeseen emergencie,s, parks
s~all be open to ~he ~u~tic e~ery day of the year during des~[~inated hours.
The opening and closindl hou~,s for each individual park shall be posted
therein for public infomnation. Any section or part of any park may be
declared closed to the public by the Superintendent at any time and for
any interval of time, either temporarily or at reg~lar and stated inter-
vals (daily or otherwise) and e~ther entirely or merely to certain uses,
as the ~uperintendent shall find reasona01y necessary.
Section 116. It is unlawful to violate or fail to comply with any
park rule or regulation duly posted by the Superintendent, and the Super-
intendent or any park attendant shall have the authority to eject from a
park, any ?e~.son acting in violation of thisOrdinance.
Section 117. Anyone concerned in the violation of this Ordinance,
wh~tner directly or indirectly co~'m'~,~itting the ~hing that constitutes the
offense, o~' w:,o aids or a0e~s the same, an~:~ w!~et~er presen~ or absent;
anc~ anyone w~o directly' or indirectly counsels, encouraaes, hires, com-
mands, induces, or otherwise procures another to commit s~ch offense, is
and s[~all be a principal 'under t[~e terms of tt~,is Ordinance and shall
proceeded against and prosecuted as such.
Section 118. Violation of or failure to comply with' the provisions
of this ordinance shall su0jec~; she of fen:er to ~ fine in the sum of not
exceeding ~300.00 Dollars or ~o imprisorurient in the 0ity Jail for a term
not exceeding 90 days, or to both such fine and imprisozun~ent.
Section 119. That Ordinance 1.lo. 300 be an~.~ the same is hereby
pealed.
APPROVED on first reading this 19th Say of September, 1956.
PASSED AND AP?ROVED by the City Council of the Otty 'of Bremerton,
signed b.: the Mayor and attested by ~he City Clez, k in authentication of
such passage this 26th day of ~eptember, 1~56.
ATTEST: H.0~ DOMSTAD, Ma.~for