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City of Isanti Park Rules & Regulations

ORDINANCE # 277 - AN ORDINANCE REGULATING PARKS

The City of Isanti does ordain

Subd 1. Purpose
The purpose of the Park ordinance is to ensure the safety of people using the park system. This Ordinance shall apply to all park and recreation areas controlled by the City of Isanti.

Subd 2. Park Rules & Regulations
  1. A. No alcoholic beverages, unless otherwise permitted by the City Clerk through the City Council of Isanti.
  2. B. No littering. All refuse and trash related to park use shall be placed in trash receptacles, provided, however, that residential, commercial, or construction trash or debris shall in no event be placed in such receptacles.
  3. C. No use of vehicles except on park roads unless otherwise authorized.
  4. D. Pets must be leashed.
  5. E. All pet owners are responsible for the proper disposal of pet waste.
  6. F. In any park and recreation area, including trails, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company, or corporation to use any restroom in any park in other than a clean and sanitary manner.
  7. G. In any park and recreation area, including trails, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company, or corporation to:
    1. a. Possess or discharge firearms, air rifles, BB guns, sling shots, bows and arrows, other weapons, explosives or fireworks.
    2. b. To be present in a park or recreation area after 10 pm or before 7 am on any day.
    3. c. Camp.
    4. d. To bring in, dump, deposit, leave in or on, or burn on any park land or water or water contiguous to any park: any glass bottles, broken glass, discarded vegetation, trash, waste, rubbish, etc.
    5. e. To advertise, sell or attempt to sell, or solicit for private gain or cause, or operate non-authorized commercial operations without the City’s approval.
    6. f. To leave a fire unattended; or to light or maintain a fire outside designated areas.
    7. g. To possess controlled substances.
    8. h. To engage in offensive, obscene, or abusive language, or in boisterous or noisy conduct tending reasonably to arouse alarm, anger or resentment in others; or to engage in brawling or fighting; or to engage in conduct creating or tending to create a disturbance or annoyance to other park users, or that interferes with their use or enjoyment of park lands and waters.
    9. i. To remove, break, destroy, injure, mutilate, deface or in any way damage any structure, monument, fence, flagpole, vehicle, bench, natural growth, ruin, relic, geological formation, or any other City of Isanti park property located in or on City of Isanti parks and park system.
    10. j. To not clean up after pets.
    11. k. To injure, molest, pursue or endanger wildlife on any park land and park system land in the City of Isanti.
    12. l. To hunt or trap on any park land owned by the City of Isanti.
    13. m. No use of recreational vehicles, including but not limited to: all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, motorcycles, on parks or park system land.

Subd. 3 Violations.
Violators of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Subd. 4 Enforcement.
The City Administrator and his/her designees may, in connection with their duties imposed by law, enforce the provision of this ordinance, and the City Administrator and his/her designees shall have the authority to:

  1. A. Eject from any park and person acting in violation of this ordinance.
  2. B. In addition to immediate removal from a park following an ordinance violation, authorized park personnel may continually exclude such person/s from any or all City of Isanti park and park system areas.
  3. C. Seize and confiscate any property, animal, thing or device in any park used in violation of any of the provision in the ordinances.
  4. D. The City Administrator and his/her designees are specifically authorized to issue citations, as well as City of Isanti Law Enforcement Officers, my issue citations for violations of this ordinance.