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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 081 1986 1006ORDINANCE NO. 81 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION AND USE OF PUBLIC PARKS AND RECREATION FACILITIES WITHIN THE CITY OF MOORPARK. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The Moorpark Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding Chapter 2 to Title 11 to read as follows: Chapter 2 PARK CONTROL SECTION 11.02.010 CLOSURE TIME. No person shall enter or remain in any public park, open space or recreation grounds during the hours of ten p.m. to six a.m. SECTION 11.02.020 ANIMAL CONTROLS. No person owning or having charge, care, custody or, control of any dog, livestock or other animal shall cause, permit, or allow the same to be loose or run at large upon any public park, open space, or recreation grounds unless such animal be restrained by a substantial chain or leash not exceeding six feet in length and is in the charge, care, custody or control of a competent person. Additionally, any person owning or having charge, care, custody or control of any dog livestock or other animal shall be responsible for debris, litter or contaminants caused by such animal and neglect of such responsibility shall be construed as littering defined in 11.02.030 of this Ordinance. SECTION 11.02.030 LITTERING PROHIBITED_._ No person shall drop or deposit refuse, trash, contaminants or litter in any public park, open space, or recreation grounds, except in receptacles provided therefore, nor place in said receptacles any refuse brought from private property. SECTION 11.02.040 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES PROHIBITED. No person shall posses or consume any alcoholic beverages in any public park, open space, or recreation ground, except as permitted within the Community Center Building with the issuance of appropriate City Permits. SECTION 11.02.050 EXCESSIVE NOISE PROHIBITED. No person shall make excessive noise through the use of amplifying equipment, or any other means in any public park, open space, or recreation grounds that tends to distract or disturb patrons or nearby residents. Persons using sound amplification equipment shall keep the sound level of such equipment at a reasonable level to avoid disturbing other people using the park or nearby residents. ORDINANCE NO. 81 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK , CALIFORNIA PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION AND USE OF PUBLIC PARKS AND RECREATION FACILITIES WITHIN THE CITY OF MOORPARK. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The Moorpark Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding Chapter 2 to Title 11 to read as follows: Chapter 2 PARK CONTROL SECTION 11.02.010 CLOSURE TIME. No person shall enter or remain in any public park, open space or recreation grounds during the hours of ten p.m. to six a.m. SECTION 11.02.020 ANIMAL CONTROLS. No person owning or having charge, care custody or control of any dog, livestock or other animal shall cause, permit, or allow the same to be loose or run at large upon any public park, open space, or recreation grounds unless such animal be restrained by a substantial chain or leash not exceeding six feet in length and is in the charge, care, custody or control of a competent person. Additionally, any person owning or having charge, care,custody or control of any dog livestock or other animal shall be responsible for debri, litter or contaminants caused by such animal and any neglect of such responsibility shall be conscrued as littering defined in 11.02.030 of this Ordinance. SECTION 11.02.030 LITTERING PROHIBITED. No person shall drop or deposit refuse, trash, contaminants or litter in any public park, open space, or recreation grounds, except in receptacles provided therefor, nor place in said receptacles any refuse brought from private property. SECTION 11.02.040 ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES PROHIBITED. No person shall possess or consume any alcoholic beverages in any public park, open space, or recreation ground, except as permitted within the Community Center Building with the issurance of appropriate City Permits. SECTION 11.02.050 EXCESSIVE NOISE PROHIBITED. No person shall make excessive noise through the use of amplifying equipment, or any other means in any public park, open space, or recreation grounds that tends to distract or disturb patrons or nearby residents. Persons using sound amplification equipment shall keep the sound level of such equipment at a reasonable level to avoid distrubing other people using the park or nearby residents. SECTION 11.02.060 PUBLIC CONDUCT. No person shall engage in boisterous, threatening, abusive, insulting or indecent language or engage in any disorderly conduct or behavior tending to a breach of the peace and interfering with the enjoyment or other persons in any public park, open space, or recreation grounds. SECTION 11.02.070 DUPLICATING KEYS PROHIBITED. No person shall duplicate keys used by the City for padlocks, door locks, or locks of any type. SECTION 11.02.080 CAMPING AND LODGING PROHIBITED. No person shall loiter, camp or lodge in any public park, open space, or recreation grounds. SECTION 11.02.090 VENDING PROHIBITED. No one shall vend any food, merchandise, or product in any public park, open space, or recreation grounds without having authorization of the City Manager or designated representative and secured his consent thereto in writing. SECTION 11.02.100 FIRES. No person shall make or kindle a fire for any purpose, except in places designated therefor, in any public park, open space, or recreation grounds, a person stating a fire in an authorized place shall be responsible for assuring that the fire is thoroughly extinguished. SECTION 11.02.110 CARE OF PROPERTY. No person shall cut, break, injure, tamper with, deface, remove, or disturb any tree, shrub, plant, rock, building, wall, fence, bench, sign, structure, apparatus or property in any public park, open space, or recreation grounds. SECTION 11.02.120 PROJECTILES PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES. No person shall discharge any firearm, firecrackers, rockets, torpedoes, or other fireworks, or airguns, or slingshots in any public park, open space, or recreation grounds. Further, no person shall engage in the activities of golf, archery, motor driven model airplane flying or rocketry in any public park, open space, or recreation grounds unless in areas specifically designated for such purposes. SECTION 11.02.130 AUTOMOBILES, RIDING ANIMALS, AND OTHER CONVEYANCES. No person shall operate, ride, or drive an automobile, bicycle, motorcycle, truck, trailer, wagon, motorscooter, animal or other conveyance on other than roads or paths designated for that purpose in any public park, open space, or recreation grounds. A bicyclist may wheel or push a bicycle over any grassy area, or trail or path reserved for pedestrian use. All conveyances shall at all times be operated, driven or ridden with reasonable regard to the safety of others in any public park, open space, or recreation grounds. No motor vehicle, animal or other conveyance shall be parked or fastened in other than an established or designated parking or hitching area in any public park, open space, or recreation grounds. SECTION 2. CONSTITUTIONALITY. If any part of this Ordinance is held invalid or unconstitutional for any reason, such shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portion of this Ordinance. The Moorpark City Council declares that each part of this Ordinance would have been adopted irrespective of the fact that a part thereof may be declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 3. That this Ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days after its passage and adoption. SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this Ordinance; shall enter the same in the book of original ordinances of said City: shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council at which the same is passed and adoption thereof, cause the same to be published once in the Moorpark News, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, as defined in Section 6008 of the Government Code, for the City of Moorpark, and which is hereby designated for that purpose. APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of October , 1986 Mayor of the City of Moorpark, California ATTEST: ;� / City Clerk/, STATE - -OF CAI;IFORNIA COUNTY OF VENTURA ) SS. CITY OF MOORPARK ) I, Inez Bryson City Cler of the City of Moorpark, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 81 was adopted by the City Council of the City of Moorpark at an adjourned regular meeting thereof, held on the 6th day of October , 19 86, and that the same was adopted by the following vote, to wit: AYES: Mayor Ferguson, Councilmembers Woolard, Prieto, Yancy- Sutton and Hartley NOES: None ABSENT: None WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 6th day of October , 19 86 {, Gity Clidrk