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A. Prohibitions relating to vehicles within park areas.

1. No person shall operate a motor vehicle in contravention of the Oregon Motor Vehicle Code. (Class D Park Violation).

2. No person may operate any vehicle off roads or outside parking areas constructed or designated for motor vehicle use unless otherwise directed by authorized city staff. (Class B Park Violation).

3. Except where specifically allowed by order of the director, no person shall allow a vehicle to remain in a park area during the time the park is closed. (Class D Park Violation).

4. No person shall park an automobile, trailer or other vehicle in any place other than an established or designated parking area. Such use shall be in accordance with posted instructions or in compliance with the instructions of any attendant who may be present. (Class D Park Violation).

5. No person shall double park any vehicle on any road or parkway unless directed by a traffic officer or other authorized city staff. (Class D Park Violation).

6. Unless otherwise authorized by the director, no person shall operate a vehicle within a park area at a speed in excess 15 miles per hour. (Class C Park Violation).

B. Prohibitions relating to pets and other animals.

1. Authorized city staff may require a person in charge of an animal to undertake any measure including removal of the animal from the park area, if necessary, to prevent interference by the animal with the safety, comfort, or well being of park visitors or resources. For the health and safety of all park visitors, the city may designate specific park system areas in which animals are prohibited.

2. No person shall bring any dog, cat or other domestic pet into a park area unless the animal is safely contained in a vehicle or on a leash and kept under physical control at all times. To avoid annoyance to other park users, leashes may not exceed six feet in length when the animal is within 100 feet of park visitors. Nothing herein shall be construed as permitting the running of dogs at large. (Class D Park Violation). Exception: Police canines in the course of duty.

3. No person shall fail to immediately and thoroughly remove all solid animal waste deposited in the parks by their animal. (Class D Park Violation). Authorized city staff may direct any person to remove their animal from any city park if that person fails to perform this duty.

4. No person shall allow their animal to go within any playground or play structure area; No person shall allow their animal in other designated park system areas in which animals are prohibited. Exception: Police canines in the course of duty, seeing-eye dogs in direct service of a blind individual, and other animals trained for and directly serving the needs of physically disabled individuals. (Class D Park Violation).

5. No person shall tie up any animal in his/her custody or control and leave such animal unattended. (Class D Park Violation).

6. Except where specifically authorized by the director, no person shall bring a horse or other livestock into a park area. (Class D Park Violation).

C. Prohibitions relating to vandalism and litter.

1. No person shall pick, cut, mutilate, remove or uproot plant life or natural resources of any type from any park area without written consent from the director. (Class B Park Violation).

2. No person shall place or leave garbage, materials for recycling, sewage, refuse or waste within a park area except in containers provided for that purpose. (Class C Park Violation).

3. No person shall deposit waste not generated by park use, including household, commercial or industrial waste or refuse, within any park area include waste containers within a park area. (Class C Park Violation).

4. No person shall mutilate, etch, paint, write upon, bur, or otherwise deface, vandalize or cause damage to any park property, facility, or structure. No person shall move or remove any property, structure, or facility of any kind within a park area. (Class A Park Violation).

5. No unauthorized person within a city park shall have in his/her possession, cans of spray paint, aerosol or pressurized containers of paint or similar substances, or other paint or ink related tools, applicators, and materials. (Class C Park Violation).

6. No person shall dig up, deface, or remove any dirt, stones, rock, or other substance whatever, make any excavation, quarry any stone, lay or set off any blast, or cause or assist in doing any of these things, within a park area, except by special permit from the director. (Class C Park Violation).

D. Prohibitions relating to camping.

1. Except as specifically authorized in writing by the director, no person shall camp overnight within a park area. (Class D Park Violation).

E. Prohibitions relating to hunting, firearms, and weapons.

1. Other than police officers in performance of their duties, no person shall carry or display any weapon of any kind within the McMinnville park system. (Class B Park Violation).

2. No person shall hunt, pursue, trap, kill, injure, harass, or molest any wildlife within a park area. (Class B Park Violation). Exception: Fishing in accordance with Oregon State Sport Fishing Regulations.

3. No person shall damage, remove, or purposefully disturb any wildlife habitat within a park area. (Class C Park Violation).

4. No person shall remove any wildlife animal from a park area. (Class C Park Violation). Exception: Fish and crawdads legally taken in accordance to the Oregon State Sport Fishing Regulations.

5. No person within a park area shall discharge or fire any firearm, bb or pellet gun, bow and arrow (including fishing), slingshot, paintball gun, or other weapon capable of injuring any person or wildlife. (Class A Park Violation).

F. Prohibitions relating to fires.

1. Unless permitted by the director, no person shall start or operate a fire within a park area except within park fireplaces provided for such purposes or within portable stoves or Bar-B-Ques in established park picnic areas. (Class D Park Violation).

2. NO person shall leave a fire unattended within a park area. (Class A Park Violation).

3. No person shall allow a fire to cause damage to park facilities or areas. (Class A Park Violation).

4. No person who starts a fire shall leave the park area without first extinguishing the fire. (Class C Park Violation).

5. No person shall start or operate a fire within a park area in contravention of an order of the fire marshall, fire chief, police chief, or director. (Class D Park Violation).

G. General prohibitions.

1. Unless otherwise approved by the director, no person within a park area shall use or operate any noise producing machine, device, or instrument in a manner that, in the judgment of an authorized city employee, can be heard beyond 50 feet and/or substantially diminishes the ability of other park area visitors to enjoy the park or subjects persons occupying residences adjacent to or near the park to inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm. (Class C Park Violation).

2. No person within a park area shall possess, discharge, or cause to be discharged any firecrackers, explosives, torpedoes, rockets, fireworks, or other substances within a park area without the written permission of the director. (Class D Park Violation).

3. Except as authorized by the director no person within a park area shall use a public address system or other device to mechanically or electronically amplify sound. (Class D Park Violation).

4. No person within a park shall commit an act of disorderly conduct. Disorderly conduct is defined as follows:

A person commits disorderly conduct when, with the intent to cause public alarm, nuisance, jeopardy or violence, or knowingly or recklessly creating a risk thereof, such person commits any of the following prohibited acts:

a. Engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent behavior.

b. Uses language, an utterance, or gesture, or engages in a display or act which is physically threatening or menacing, or done in a manner that is likely to inflict injury or incite an immediate breach of the peace.

c. Makes noise that is unreasonable or unnecessary, considering the nature and purpose of the actor’s conduct, location, time of day or night, and other factors that would govern the conduct of a reasonably prudent person under the circumstances.

d. Creates or maintains a hazardous or physically offensive condition.

5. No person within a park area shall enter an area posted as “Closed to the Public,” violate animal control, skateboard, or smoking prohibitions within a park or park area specifically designated as limiting or prohibiting such activity, or abet the use of any area in violation of posted notices. (Class D Park Violation).

6. No person within a park area shall block, obstruct, or interfere with vehicular or pedestrian traffic on any road, parking area, trail, walkway, pathway, or common area. (Class D Park Violation).

7. Except as authorized by the director, no person within a park area shall occupy or interfere with access to any structure, office, lavatory, or other facility in a manner which impairs the intended use of the structure or facility by park users. (Class D Park Violation).

8. Except as authorized by the director for City Park, no person shall use alcohol or possess an open container of alcohol in any city park. (Class D Park Violation).

9. Except as authorized by the director, no person shall display, sell, offer for sale, peddle, hawk, or vend any goods, wares, merchandise, food, liquids, or services within any park area. (Class D Park Violation).

10. Except as authorized by the director, no person shall operate a concession either fixed or mobile within any park. (Class D Park Violation).

11. No person shall erect any permanent signs or temporary signs of any type within a park, except by special permit from the director. (Class D Park Violation).

12. No person within a city park shall hit golf balls in areas not designated for such use. (Class D Park Violation).

13. The use of tobacco products, including the use of e-cigarettes, is prohibited throughout all city park property, all library property, and all aquatic center property, all entries, plazas, and parking areas associated with city park property, library property, and aquatic center property, and Park Drive (all city properties west of Adams Street, north of Second Street, and adjacent to Star Mill and Wallace Streets).

14. The use of skateboards, scooters, and bicycles is prohibited in the library plaza, the library parking lots, the Third Street park entry and Soper Fountain plaza, the aquatic center plaza, along aquatic center covered walkways and adjacent to other buildings and structure which are located west of Adams Street, north of Second Street, and adjacent to Star Mill and Wallace Streets. This restriction does not include bicycles or other nonmotorized vehicles that are operating within established vehicle lanes and in compliance with established state statutes and municipal ordinances for those vehicles. (Ord. 5051 §1 (Exh. 1 §2), 2018; Ord. 4982 §1 and §2, 2014; Ord. 4698 §6, 1999).