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ORDINANCE NO.
4452
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER
12.56.050 OF THE BAKERSFIELD
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO PARKS.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 12.56.050 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code is hereby amended to read
as follows:
12.56.050 Prohibited acts in parks.
Within the limits of any park, it is unlawful for any person, other than a duly
authorized city employee in the performance of his or her duty, to do any of the
following:
A. Play or practice golf or archery, fly motor-driven model aircraft, or throw a
javelin, shotput, hammer, boomerang, or other dangerous projectile or launch any type
of rocket device, regardless of the power source;
B. Cut, remove, destroy, injure, mutilate, pluck, pull up or take any tree, plant,
shrub, bloom or flower; or to cut, break injure, deface, disturb or remove any bench,
table, apparatus, refuse receptacle, equipment, building, structure, monument, sign,
fence or property; or to mark, paint, write or print upon any building, monument, fence,
bench, structure or other property; or to remove any wood, turf, grass, soil, rock, sand or
gravel; or to attach or place in any manner any sign, poster, card, display or advertising
device; throw any stones, rocks, clods or missiles; or to hunt, pursue, annoy, throw
stones, clods, rocks or missiles at, shoot at, or molest or disturb in any way any animal
or bird; or to go upon any lawn or grass plot where prohibited by a proper and legible
sign;
C. Make, light, kindle or maintain any fire, unless such fire is lighted and
maintained in a grill, pit, or brazier intended for such use;
D. Open, expose or interfere with any water or gas pipe or electrical outlet,
hydrant, stopcock, sewer, basin or other fixture or improvement;
E. Leave any garbage, rubbish, trash cans, bottles, papers, cigarettes or
other refuse elsewhere than in the receptacles provided therefor;
F. Operate, drive, ride or propel any motor vehicle, bicycle, unicycle, horse,
cattle, or any other animal, or to bring or keep any animal other than a domestic animal;
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G. To allow dogs to run loose or with a chain or leash longer than six feet,
except in areas which may be specifically designated and posted for such use;
H.
slingshot;
Take into, exhibit, use or discharge any firearm, weapon, air gun or
I. Use or attempt to use or interfere with the use of any table, stage,
equipment, apparatus, area, athletic fields, swimming pool, tennis court or other space
or facility which has been reserved for other persons under any contract, facility
reservation or permit from the director or reserved or scheduled for other persons under
contract or otherwise; or disturb in any manner any picnic, meeting, service, concert,
exercise, activity, exhibition or gathering;
J. Operate, ride or propel any skateboard or skates except in areas which
may be specifically designated and posted for such uses;
K. Assemble, collect or gather together in any walk, passageway or in any
other place set apart for the travel of persons in or through any park or to occupy the
same so that free passage or use thereof by persons passing along the same shall be
obstructed in any manner;
L. Be in or upon any park between the hours of ten p.m. and five a.m.,
except for participants in city-sponsored events, for which the prohibited hours shall be
twelve midnight to five a.m.; provided, however, that camping and lodging overnight
may be permitted when such camping or lodging is part of an authorized recreational
outing under the supervision of the division of recreation and parks of the city pursuant
to a permit granted therefor by the city manager or designee; such application may be
denied if such use is found to be inimical to the use of any park by the general public;
M. Except as allowed under permit issued pursuant to Section 12.56.170,
operate any radio, tape player, tape recorder, record player, television, compact disc
player or other similar sound equipment on or in any park, or in any parking area or lot
within any park, at such volume as permits the noise therefrom to be audible to any
person of normal hearing sensitivity fifty feet from said radio, tape player, tape recorder,
record player, television, compact disc player or other similar sound equipment;
N. Except as authorized by permit issued pursuant to Sections 12.56.200 or
12.56.210, consume any alcoholic beverage or be in possession of any open container
with any alcoholic beverage inside;
O. Take into, exhibit, use, cause to be brought into, or otherwise cause any
bottle or any other glass beverage container, other than a container displayed as an
exhibit in an authorized art show, to be in any park, or in any parking lot within the park
or adjacent to any park;
P. Operate a food and/or shelter agency as defined in Section 17.04.285.
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SECTION 2.
This ordinance shall be posted in accordance with the provIsions of the
Bakersfield Municipal Code and shall become effective thirty (30) days from and after
the date of its passage.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed and adopted by
the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting thereof held on AUG 2 9 ZD07
by the following vote:
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ABSTAIN:
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COUNCILMEMBER CARSON, BENHAM, WEIR, COUCH, HANSON, SULLIVAN, SCRIVNER
COUNCILMEMBER
COUNCILMEMBER
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CITY CLERK and EX OFFICI of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED:
AUG 2 9 1.GGl
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HARVE . HALL, Mayor
CITY OF BAKERSFIELD
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
VIRGINIA GENNARO
City Attorney
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. VIRGINIA A. GENN (J
City Attorney
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AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING DOCUMENTS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
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County of Kern )
PAMELA A. McCARTHY, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That she is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield;
and that on the 30TH day of AUQust. 2007 she posted on the Bulletin Board at City Hall,
a full, true and correct copy of the following: Ordinance No. 4452 passed by the
Bakersfield City Council at a meeting held on the 29TH day of AUQust. 2007 and
entitled:
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 12.56.050 OF
THE BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO
PARKS.
PAMELA A. McCARTHY
City Clerk and Ex Officio of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
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DEPUT Cit Clerk
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