[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Suffield 5-12-1966 (Ch. 13, Art. I, of the 1987
Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
The parks and recreational areas within the Town shall be open
during such hours as the Conservation Commission shall determine.
No person shall hunt or use or carry firearms in any public
park or recreational area of the Town.
[Amended 12-19-2019]
No person shall fish in or upon any of the waters on any public
park or recreational area of the Town except in accordance with rules
and regulations established by the State Department of Energy and
Environmental Protection and the Conservation Commission.
No power-driven craft shall be used upon any waters in any park
or recreational area of the Town.
No person shall bring or cause to be brought into any park or
recreational area of the Town any dogs unless the same shall be on
leash or under the control of such person.
[Added 8-28-1975]
A.
The sale, possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages on park
or recreational areas of the Town is prohibited; provided, however,
that the Board of Selectmen, after consultation with and prior approval
by the Conservation Commission, may issue a permit to sell beer or
wine on park or recreational areas of the Town provided that all of
the following conditions exist:
(1)
The applicant for such permit is a local organization, comprised
principally of residents of the Town, which has been in existence
and active in the Town for at least three years prior to the filing
of the application.
(2)
The applicant is a civic, charitable, or nonprofit organization.
(3)
The permittee and those engaged in the sale of such beer or wine
are all residents of the Town.
(4)
The applicant specifies the particular park or recreational area
in which the sale is to occur, to which particular park or recreational
area the permit shall be limited.
(5)
The sale is for the purpose of raising funds for such organization,
or for another such civic, charitable, noncommercial or nonprofit
organization or purpose described in the application.
(6)
The event at which the sale is to occur is open to the general public.
(7)
The application is for a period not to exceed three days.
(8)
The applicant makes adequate provision, specified in its application,
for the removal from the park or recreational area at its own expense
of all refuse or rubbish generated by the sale, possession or consumption
of beer or wine sold, and of all personal property brought into the
park or recreational area for the purposes of such sale.
(9)
The applicant has not been issued more than three such permits in
this same calendar year.
B.
Any permission granted by such permit shall be conditioned upon issuance
to the applicant by the State Liquor Control Commission of a permit
appropriate for the purposes.
C.
Beer or wine may be possessed or consumed at such park or recreational
area during the period such beer or wine is being sold pursuant to
such permit. The Board of Selectmen may establish a fee for issuance
of the permit.
No person shall dump, deposit or cause to be left in or upon
the waters and grounds of any park or recreational area of the Town
any rubbish, refuse, garbage or waste material except in receptacles
marked and provided for such purpose.
No person shall destroy, deface, remove or injure in any manner
any structure, tree, shrub, flowers, fern or moss of any facilities
or installations upon the waters or grounds of any park or recreational
area of the Town.
No person shall destroy, molest, injure, capture or interfere
with birds, game or wildlife upon any park or recreational area of
the Town.
No person shall erect or post in or upon the grounds of any
park or recreational area of the Town any notice, sign or poster except
such notices, signs or posters as may be authorized by any state agency
or the Conservation Commission.
No person shall drive or cause to be driven into any park or
recreational area of the Town any trailer, camp vehicle or other mobile
facility designed to provide camping or living facilities.
No person shall camp or remain upon the grounds of any park
or recreational area of the Town after the evening closing hours of
any such park or recreational area without having obtained permit,
in writing, from the Conservation Commission or from the superintendent
of such park or recreational area to do so.
No person shall kindle, use or maintain any open fire upon any
park or recreational area of the Town except at locations and in receptacles
specifically designated for such purpose. No person shall leave any
fire in any fireplace or receptacle provided for such purpose unattended
or unextinguished.
No person shall sell or offer for sale any article on park or
recreational areas of the Town or advertise or solicit for any purpose
therein, unless specifically authorized in writing by the Commission
to do so.
No person shall play, engage in, conduct or participate in or
cause to be played, conducted or engaged in any game of chance or
have any instrument or instrumentality of gambling upon park or recreational
areas of the Town.
No person shall operate or park any motor vehicle upon park
or recreational areas of the Town except in compliance with such rules
and regulations as may be posted or displayed upon such areas under
the direction of the Conservation Commission.
No person shall engage in disorderly conduct or obscene or indecent
conduct or behavior in any park or recreational area of the Town.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter may
be evicted from the park or recreational area in which such violation
shall have occurred.
The Parks and Recreation Commission is authorized and empowered
to adopt and publish from time to time such rules and regulations
as it may deem necessary and appropriate in the implementation of
the provisions of this chapter.
