Municipal "NO BOOK"

12.56.020. Prohibited acts.

     No person shall do any of the following acts within the premises of any public park or public playground:

     A.    Transport, carry, fire or discharge any firearm, weapon, air gun, slingshot, firecracker, torpedo, or explosive of any kind;

     B.    Discharge any firecracker, bomb, torpedo, rocket, or other fireworks; provided, however, that supervised public displays of fireworks by the city may be permitted pursuant to the Uniform Fire Code as adopted by the city;

     C.    Pick, dig, remove, carry away, injure, destroy, or deface wood, soil, leaf mold or rock, or any tree, flower, plant or shrub, building, fence, bench, table or other structure, apparatus or property within any public park, public facility or recreation area, except with the permission of the city manager;

     D.    Bring, ride, leave, turn loose or allow any animal to be within any public park; except that a dog or a cat may be brought within a public park so long as it is at all times restrained by a leash not to exceed six feet in length and is in the custody and control of a competent person. No person having control of such dog or cat shall allow such dog or cat to defecate within any public park. It shall be the duty of all persons having control of a dog or cat, to curb such dog or cat and to immediately remove any feces to a proper receptacle. The failure to do so or to immediately remove any feces to a proper receptacle constitutes a violation of this section. This prohibition shall not apply to seeing-eye dogs or other service animal assisting a person with a disability;

     E.     Take, kill, wound or maltreat any bird or animal, either wild or domesticated, except at the direction of the city manager or designee;

     F.     Set up, maintain or give any exhibition, show, performance, lecture, concert, place or games of amusement (i.e., dunk tanks, air inflated astro-jumps, pony rides, etc.) or concert hall without written consent of the city manager or designee or the issuance of a permit therefor;

     G.    No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill circulars, pamphlets, tracts, or advertisements in or upon any sidewalk, street, or other public place within the city. Nor shall any person hand out or distribute or sell any commercial handbill in any public place; provided, however, that it is not unlawful on any sidewalk, street or other public place within the city for any person to hand out or distribute, without charge to the receiver thereof, any noncommercial handbill to any person willing to accept it. No person shall post or affix to any pole, tree, car, fence or structure situated therein any kind of handbill, circular, pamphlet, tract, or advertisement;

     H.    Vend, offer for sale or dispose of goods, wares or merchandise, or conduct any business unless authorized to do so by the city council or designee, except that nothing in this provision shall prohibit religious or political solicitations;

     I.      Stop or park a food vending vehicle or other vehicles within a public park or adjacent parking lots or upon a public street immediately adjacent to a public park for the purpose of, or to sell, give away, display or offer for sale any food or beverage product from that vehicle;

     J.     Build, kindle or light, or permit to be built, kindled, or lighted, a fire except in picnic stoves, fire rings, or fireplaces provided for that purpose. No person shall throw away any lighted cigar, cigarette, tobacco, lighted match, or other matter that could set fire to any grass, shrubs, or buildings;

     K.    After using a stove, permit such stove to remain in any untidy condition, or fail to clear away there from all cooking utensils and other materials;

     L.     Place any food, dishes, cooking utensils or other things in any stream, lake, pond, pool, fountain, or at any hydrant for the purpose of cleaning the same, nor shall any person use any stream, lake, pond, pool, fountain, or hydrant for washing, swimming or bathing, or otherwise pollute the same;

     M.   Leave or throw away any garbage, refuse, cans, ashes, bottles, broken glass or like substances, except into containers provided for that purpose;

     N.    Except when authorized by a permit issued by the city manager or designee, pursuant to Chapter 9.32 of this code, no one shall operate a radio, television, stereo or any similar electronic or mechanical device capable of producing or emitting sound at a volume where the sound is audible at a distance greater than fifty feet from the point of emission;

     O.    Play baseball, football, or any other game of ball, cricket or other sports activity, except in any such place as shall be specifically designated for that purpose;

     P.     Drive or ride a bicycle, motorcycle, automobile, or any other vehicle on any pedestrian walk or a designated bicycle path, unless authorized by the city manager or designee. No person shall drive any such bicycle, motorcycle, motor vehicle or other vehicle at a greater speed than that specified by traffic ordinance by the city council for a road within a public park or public playground and indicated by a sign or signs placed along such road;

     Q.    Leave or park any automobile, motorcycle or other self-drive vehicle on any park property, except at such place or places as are provided for and designated as places for the leaving or parking of automobiles, motorcycles or other self-driven vehicles;

     R.    Leave or park any motorcycle or motor vehicle on any driveway or at any other place, except at such place or places as are provided for and designated as places for parking motorcycles, motor vehicles or other vehicles, or for hitching horses;

     S.     Obstruct the free travel of vehicles or pedestrians on any road, avenue, walk, or path;

     T.    Consume any spirituous, vinous, malt, or other intoxicating liquors, containing more than one-half of one percent of alcohol by volume, or possess an open container of alcoholic beverage in violation of Section 9.04.010 of this code;

     U.    Possess any glass container;

     V.    Possess a beer keg or any similar single container capable of containing or containing more than one gallon of beer classified as an alcoholic beverage;

     W.   Sell or distribute any alcoholic beverage in or on any public park, public playground or public parking lot or public building without first having received a permit from the city manager and having paid the fees required therefore. The issuance of a permit by the city manager shall operate to suspend the enforcement of Section 9.04.010 of this code on such specific dates and times and at such specific locations as described upon the permit;

     X.    Remain upon the grounds of a public park or public playground, or occupy the grounds of such park or playground or any part thereof, or use any of the facilities or equipment therein, or permit any vehicle to remain therein, except between the hours of seven a.m. and ten p.m. of any day, unless authorized by the city manager under the provisions of Section 12.56.030 of this code. The city manager may, in reasonable discretion, designate and enforce a suitable and proper time for closing such grounds or facilities and equipment;

     Y.    Camp, lodge or sleep overnight, or between the hours of ten p.m. and seven a.m.;