§ 22-44. Prohibited acts.

The following acts and activities are prohibited in the parks and are violations of this Code. This section shall not apply to activities of the board or its officers, or employees when caring for and managing the parks.

(1)

No person shall destroy, injure or deface plant life, trees, buildings, or other natural or material property, or construct or operate for private or commercial purposes any structure, or remove any plant life, trees, buildings, sand, gravel, ice, earth, stone, wood or other natural material, or operate vehicles, within the boundaries of any park, except as provided in this article and park rules.

(2)

No person shall, in any manner, remove, destroy, injure or deface any tree, shrub, plant, or flower, or the fruit thereof, or disturb or injure any structure or natural attraction in any park, except that, upon written permission of the board, certain specimens may be removed for scientific purposes.

(3)

No person shall use firearms, fireworks, explosives, or weapons of any kind in any park, except on written permission of the board.

(4)

No fires shall be built, except in a place provided therefor, and any fire shall be extinguished before leaving the area unless it is to be immediately used by some other person.

(5)

No person shall place, deposit, or throw any waste, refuse, litter or foreign substance in any area or receptacle except those provided for this purpose.

(6)

No person shall camp in any portion of a park.

(7)

No person shall enter upon portions of any park in disregard of official signs forbidding entrance, except by permission of the board or its representative.

(8)

No person shall bring into any park any metal detector or other device designed or intended to locate or find metal objects without the consent of the board or its representative.

(Prior Code, § 115.03)