[Amended 4-13-2004 by Ord. No. 1753; 4-9-2013 by Ord. No. 1874]
No person or organization shall display any placard, sign or advertisement of any kind or post, paint, affix, distribute, cast or leave about any sign, placard or advertisement of any kind on any tree, post, stone, fence, wall, road, building, temporary structure or post or other place within the park without first submitting to the Clairton City Manager the specific details and specifications as to the size, color, content, construction, requested location, requested duration of sign be allowed, method of fastening and securing the sign, and any other details or specifications as the City Manager may require or request and receiving written approval from the City Manager with possible conditions before the placement of the proposed sign, placard or advertisement.
No person shall, within the parks, solicit alms or contributions for any purpose; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall prohibit the taking up of a collection at any religious service held by any established church organization or by a social or fraternal organization from its members and guests.
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No person shall be allowed to turn any chickens, ducks, geese or other fowl or any cattle, goats, swine, horses or other animals loose within the park.
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No person walking, running, sitting, standing or playing with a dog, cat or other animal of any kind in a City park shall allow that animal to defecate or relieve itself in any way, shape or manner without said person completely cleaning and removing the defecation or relief and disposing of it in a proper manner and container for said use. The City reserves the right to prohibit any and all animals from a City park or parks if the City perceives that there is a problem with animal feces not being removed and disposed of in a manner acceptable to the City Manager.
[Added 4-9-2013 by Ord. No. 1874]
No person shall, within the park, throw stones or other missiles; annoy persons; use profane, indecent, abusive or insulting language; interfere with, encumber, obstruct or make dangerous any path, drive, walk or public place; climb or stand on any wall, fence, shelter, seat, statue or erection; spit upon any walk, crossing, safety zone or the floor of any bridge, platform, stairway or other structure; introduce, carry, discharge or fire any firearms, firecrackers, torpedoes or other fireworks, except under authority of a properly issued permit.
No person shall bring into or have in the parks any explosive or explosive mixture, substance or compound, except as provided in the preceding section.
No person shall have or take into the parks or carry, whether or not concealed upon his or her person, any rifle, shotgun, revolver, air gun, spring gun, slingshot or other weapon or any blank cartridges or ammunition therefor.
No person shall kindle, build or maintain or use any fire in the park, except in places provided for such purpose. Any fire in such designated place shall be continuously under the care and direction of a competent person from the time kindled until it is extinguished. No person shall throw away or discard any lighted match, cigar or cigarette within or against any building, structure, car, vehicle or enclosure or under any tree, brush or underbrush in the parks.
No person shall loiter, remain or stay where there is no artificial light from between one hour after sunset to sunrise in the parks.
No person shall sell or offer for sale any object or merchandise or any other thing in the parks except under permit by the City, and then only at the place designated or arranged for under the permit.
No person shall camp or lodge in the parks except at places designated by the City.
No person shall sleep upon, lie upon or overturn any seat or bench in the parks.
No person shall bring into or carry within any park any tree, shrub, plant or flowers, or newly plucked parts thereof, without a permit from the City.
No person shall enter any building, enclosure or place within the parks upon which the words "No Admittance" shall be displayed.
No person, except in an emergency, shall bring, land or cause to descend or alight within the park any airplane, flying machine, balloon or other aviation apparatus.
No person shall bathe, wade or swim except at such time and in such place as the City may designate in the parks; nor shall any person dress or undress except in the bathhouse provided by the City or appear in bathing costumes at any place within the park, except within the designated bathing place or while traveling to or from the same.
No person shall coast or sled with sleds or other vehicles on wheels or runners except at such places and at such times as may be designated by the City in the parks or skate or go upon the ice until such ice is declared to be in safe condition by the City.
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No person shall play or engage in baseball, golf, football, basketball or other games except in places designated therefor in the parks.
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Picnics may be held in such parts of the parks as shall be designated for that purpose, and portions of the parks may be set aside for tennis, golf, croquet and other games, subject to such regulations as may be made from time to time by the City, and no person shall join any such picnic or game without consent of the persons of whom they are composed or shall in any manner disturb or interfere with the same.
No person without a permit issued by the City shall erect any structure, stand or platform in the parks; hold any meeting; perform any ceremony; make any speech, address or harangue; exhibit to the public any dramatic performance or the performance in whole or in part of any tragedy, comedy, opera, ballet, play, farce, dancing entertainment, motion picture, circus, etc.; or engage in any parade, drill, maneuvers or other procession.
No person shall injure, mark, write upon, deface, displace, remove, fill in, raise, destroy or tamper with any road, drive, path, walk, bridge, sign, inscription, monument, signal, structure, building, post, railing, bench, seat, platform, stand guard, sewer, wire, pipe or main, catch basin cover, manhole, lamp, lamppost or light apparatus or any appurtenances or appendages connected therewith or any other property or equipment, real or personal, owned by the City or under its jurisdiction or control or appertaining to the creation, government, use or maintenance of the parks or in any way interfere with the operation of any machine, instrument or contrivance used in the parks; take up, remove or carry away any asphalt, concrete, sand, gravel, rock, stone, clay, earth or other material or make excavation of any kind; or, without a permit, attach, string, adjust or carry any wire or other objects in, on or over any part of the parks.
No person shall cut, break, pluck, burn or otherwise mutilate, injure, deface, disturb, sever from the ground or remove any plant, flower, shrub, tree, growing thing, plant growth or any branch, stem or leaf thereof; or pile or maintain any material or debris against or upon the same in the parks.
No person shall molest, kill, wound, trap, hunt, take, chase, shoot or throw missiles at, remove or have in his or her possession any animal, bird, bird's nest or squirrel's nest or remove the young of any such animal or the eggs or young of any such bird in the parks.
[Amended 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1518]
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, throw, sweep or cast any paper, straw, boxes, tin cans, bottles, glass, tacks, barrel hoops, ashes or any rubbish of any kind whatsoever in any of the parks within the limits of the City, except in receptacles designated for that purpose.
No person shall throw, cast, lay, drop or discharge into or leave in the waters of the parks or any stream, storm sewer or drain flowing into such waters any substance, matter or thing which may result in the pollution of such waters.
No person shall drive or operate within the parks any motor vehicle used solely for commercial purposes, except upon park business.
No person shall use the parks' drives for the purpose of demonstrating any vehicle or for the purpose of instructing another to drive or operate any vehicle or for learning to drive or operate any vehicle.
[Amended 3-21-1988 by Ord. No. 1432]
No person shall drive a vehicle within or upon a walk, bridle path or any part of the parks not designated or used for such purposes. No person shall operate a snowmobile or all-terrain vehicle, as those terms are defined in the Pennsylvania Snowmobile and All-Terrain Vehicle Law, Act of June 17, 1976, P.L. 162, No. 81, as amended,[1] or any vehicle, recreational or otherwise, except on designated roads, trails or areas designated and set aside for their use.
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Editor's Note: See 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 7701 et. seq.
Whenever any traffic officer, patrol officer or other park police officer shall indicate by gesture or otherwise that the speed or course of a vehicle shall be changed or altered, the driver thereof shall immediately obey such instruction.
No owner or driver shall cause or permit his or her vehicle to stand anywhere outside of designated parking places in the parks, except in an emergency or for a reasonable time to take on or discharge passengers.
Nothing contained in this chapter shall apply to vehicles and apparatus of the Police or Fire Department or to an ambulance or to emergency repair vehicles when responding for emergency work in case of fire, accident, disaster, impending emergency or for park business.
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All permits shall be issued through the office of the City Manager and shall be subject to park rules, regulations, the provisions of this chapter and other ordinances of the City, and the person to whom such permit shall be issued shall be bound by such rules, regulations and ordinances as though the same were inserted in such permit; and any person to whom such permit shall be issued shall be liable for any loss, damage or injury sustained by reasons of the negligence of the person to whom such permit shall be issued, as well as for any breach of such rules, regulations and ordinances, to the person so suffering damage or injury.
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Every person claiming to have a permit as set out in the preceding subsection shall produce and exhibit the same upon request of any authorized person.
No person shall refuse to obey such order or request of any authorized City official as shall have for its object the preservation of the parks or its contents or the maintenance of safety, order and decorum within its limits.
[Amended 4-14-1992 by Ord. No. 1518]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall be subject to a fine not exceeding $600, plus costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 90 days.