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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 17411 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ORDINANCE NO. 1741 ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME AMENDING CHAPTER 10.55 TO UPDATE PROVISIONS REGARDING USE OF PARKS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS The City Council of the City of Burlingame ordains as Follows: Section 1. Chapter 10.55 establishes the basic regulations £or use of the City's parks and recreation facilities, and in order to better define the authority of the City Manager and the Director of Parks &Recreation and incorporate rules and regulations that have been approved by the City Council, minor amendments to the provisions should be made. Section 2. Chapter 10.55 is amended to read as follows: Chapter 10.55 REGULATIONS FOR PARKS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS Sections: 10.55.005 Definitions, 10.55.010 Trespassing prohibited. 10.55.015 Hours. 10.55.020 Exceptions. 10.55.025 Use of parks and recreational areas. 10.55.028 General rules and regulations. 10.55.030 Additional rules and regulations. 10.55.035 Enforcement of rules and regulations. 10.55.040 Special events and group use. 10.55.045 Closing parks and recreational areas. Section 10.55.005 Definitions For purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Director" or "director of parks and recreation" mean s the city director of parks and recreation or the director's authorized designee. (b) "Park" or "recreation area" means any property, grounds, or facilifies under the supervision of the depart ment of parks and recreation. This includes but is not limited to city parks, pools, recreation centers, golf center, playgrounds, fields, open spaces, and all parking lots and structures involved in these facilities, and school facilities when scheduled or programmed by the city. E 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Section 10.55.010 Trespassing prohibited. (a) It is unlawful for any person to trespass upon the grounds and facilities of any park or recreational area of the city which are restricted to the exclusive use of such persons as may be permitted thereon by the rules and regulations governing the use thereof by the general public or as maybe engaged in the recreational programs of the city, and the employees assigned thereto. (b) The city manager or the director of parks and recreation is authorized to have excluded from any park any person violating the provisions of this chapter or any of the rules and regulations. Any person thus excluded who fails to leave the park forthwith, or who thereafter enters therein or thereupon, except with the consent of the city manager or director of parks and recreation, is guilty of a misdemeanor or infraction as determined pursuant to this code. Section 10.55.015 Hours. Except as provided in Section 10.55.020, the parks, recreational areas and all facilities located therein, including the parking lots serving the parks and recreational areas, shall be closed to the public between the hours of nine (9) p.m. and six (6) a.m. the following morning. In addition to all city owned facilities, the provisions of this section shall also apply to that area known as Wooley Park, located between 150 Anza Boulevard and the entrance to Anza Lagoon, except it shall not apply to the adjacent parking lot or to persons traversing the bayfront pathway between that parking lot and the bridge at Anza Lagoon, Section 10.55.020 Exceptions. The hours established by Section 10.55.015 hereof shall not apply to: (a) The parking lots serving and immediate area of any municipal recreation building during the time the building is being used with permission and for one hour after the closing thereof; (b) Any recreation program conducted or authorized bythe parks and recreation depart and for one hour after the completion thereof. ment 2 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Section 10.55.025 Use of parks and recreational areas. It is unlawful for any unauthorizedperson to use, cross or remain in any park or recreational area and the parking lots adj acent thereto except during the hours such park or recreational area and parking lot is open to the public as provided in Sections 10.55.015 and 10.55.020. Section 10.55.028 General rules and regulafions It is unlawful for any person, group, or organization to do any of the following in any city park or recreational area without the express permission of the director of parks and recreation, or the director's authorized designee: (a) Open, expose or interfere with any water or gas pipe, hydrant, stopcock, sewer, basin or other construction, or any natural or artificial drainage; (b) Remove turf, soil, grass, rock, sand or gravel, tree, shrub or wood or portion thereof; (c) Make or kindle a fire for any purpose, except in places provided therefor or in a portable barbecue in an area designated for such purpose; (d) Play or practice if or archery or fly or operate motor -driven models, except in areas specificalI y designated and posted for such purposes; (e) Take into, exhibit or use any firearm, air gun, slingshot, firecracker, torpedo, rocket or weapon of any sort , whether manufactured or improvised. This prohibition. includes the use of any item or utensil in such a manner as to approximate a weapon or to cast fear into an other; (f) Cut, break, injure, deface or disturb an y tree, shrub, plant, rock, building, cage, pen, monument, fence, bench, path, walk or other structure, apparatus or propert y, or mark or write thereon; (g) Practice, carry on, conduct or solicit for any trade, occupation, business or profession without a permit therefore endorsed by the director of parks an d recreation; (h) Sell or offer for sale, any merchandise, art icle or thing, whatsoever, without a permit therefore endorsed by the director of parks and recreation; (i) Use or attempt to use or interfere with the use of any table, space or facility which at the time is reserved for any other person or group; 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (j) Enter any area which is posted by the city as being closed to the public; (k) Operate or park any vehicle except upon areas designated or as may be permitted by the director of parks; (1) Place litter or debris elsewhere than in container designed to receive such litter or debris; (m) Play any game of chance or carry on betting of any kind; (n) Fish, wade, swim or bathe except in the places designated therefor; (o) Set up or use a volleyball net so as to exceed a maximum of two such nets in a park at any time; (p) Have in his or her possession or control any exotic animal, as defined by Section 9.08.050 ofthis code, regardless of size, or to release any such animal in a park or recreational area; (q) Operate any of the following equipment, without express written permit from the director of parks and recreation: (1) Generator for producing electrical voltage; or (2) Sound amplification equipment; or (3) Any radio or sound reproduction equipment which causes any noise that disturbs the peace and quiet of the neighborhood or other users of the park or facility; or (4) Inflatable play equipment, such as astro-jumps and similar items; or (5) Batting machines, except on designated lighted ballfields between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on Mondays through Saturdays an d between 10:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on Sundays, and on designated unlighted ballfields between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and dusk on Mondays through Saturdays and between 10:00 a.m. and dusk on Sundays. However, for Ray Park on Sundays, batting machines are only permitted on the designated ballfields between 11:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (r) Gather in groups of fifteen (15) persons or more without specifi c written permission from the director of parks an d recreation in the following locations: (1) Cuernavaca Park at an y time; or (2) Village Park on weekdays between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.; or (3) Pershing Park on weekdays between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.; 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (s) Engage in any activity involving batted balls in any park or recreational area, except on a designated ballfield at Bayside Park, Cuernavaca Park, Ray Parlc, or Washington Park. (t) Possess, serve or sell alcoholic beverages at any park or recreational area, except by the city's authorized golf center operator at the Burlingame Golf Center; or (v) Allow dogs in or around any playground as designated by the surface material at the playground equipment in Cuernavaca Park, Pershing Park, Ray Park, Trenton Park, Victoria Park, Village Park, or Washington Park, or as designated by the fenced area surrounding the City's tot lots at Alpine Park, "J" Lot, Laguna Playground and Paloma Playground. Section 10.55.030 Additional rules and regulations. hi addition to the general rules and regulations contained in this chapter, the parks and recreation commission may promulgate and submit to the council for approval, rules and regulations governing the administration, operation, use and maintenance of each park and recreational area. Such rules and regulations may stipulate, among other things: (a) The facilities, equipment and provisions of each park together with the maximum number which may safely use such facilities, equipment an d provisions at one time; (b) The areas of each park designated for part icular uses, whether passive or otherwise and any specific limitations thereon designed to promote the public safety and enhance the greatest use by the greatest number of people; (c) The terms by which park facilities such as tennis courts, ball fields, etc., maybe used and any specific requirements designed to protect the playing surface an d to insure the safety of part icipants and spectators; (d) Areas suitable for public assembly and the number which may be accommodated without injury to the park, its plan t life or any facilities therein; (e) Areas where sound amplification equipment may be made available or where it may be used together with the maximum sound level at which it may be operated so as to provide full dissemination of sound within the area when occupied by Lite maximum number allowed so as not to interfere with the reasonable enjoyment by the public of adjacent areas or of private citizens 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 within adjacent private property; and (f) Procedures for securing the exclusive use of any park or recreational area or facility together with any fee schedule or security deposit requirements necessary to insure compliancewith the terms of the permit or to protect the general public from liability for the extra maintenance necessitated by such exclusive use. Such procedure shall include the provisions for appeal to the council. Section 10.55.035 Enforcement of rules and regulations. (a) It is unlawful for any person, group, or organization to violate any rule or regulation adopted pursuant to sections 10.55.030 above. (b) In addition to the other remedies provides by this code and state law, the city manager or the director ofparks and recreation may suspend the privilege of a person, group, or organization that violates the provisions of this chapter or the terms and conditions of any permit issued pursuant to this chapter to obtain any further permit for use of any park or recreational area for such time as the manager or director determines is an appropriate suspension. Any person, group, or organization whose privilege is suspended under this subsection may appeal the suspension to the city council by filing a written appeal together with an appeal fee with the city clerk within ten (10) days of the written notice of suspension. The city council will then hear the appeal within a reasonable period of time and render a decision on the suspension. The decision of the city council shall be final and conclusive. Section 10.55.040 Special events and group use. The city manager an d the director of parks and recreation shall provide a permit process for group reservations of park areas and recreational areas, special events, and circumstan ces not covered by this chapter or the rules and regulations. In so doing the city manager or director shall ensure that the parks and recreational areas are available and provided for the comfort and convenience of all. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Section 10.55.045 Closing parks and recreational areas. The city manager or the director of parks and recreation may close any park or recreational area and remove all persons therefrom when in his judgment such closing will best preserve the public peace, prevent damage to public property or quell riots, mobs or violence. The city manager or the director may also cause any and all persons whose presence on the premises is disruptive to the normal and safe use and enjoyment thereof by the greatest number of people to be removed. Section 3. This ordinance shall be published as required by law and shall take effect thirty days after its adoption. I, ANN T. MUSSO, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 19' day of July, 2004, and adopted thereafter at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 16' day of August, 2004, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: COFFEY, GALLIGAN, NAGEL, O'MAHONY NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: BAYLOCK Ci y Jerk S:\Ordinances\ord 174 Lord. doe 7