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
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