It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to do or to cause or to permit to be done any of the acts hereinafter specified within the limits of any park, recreation area, or facility within the city of Salinas:

(a) Loose Animals. To lead or let loose any animal or fowl; provided, that the prohibitions of this section shall not apply to animals which may be brought into the park or upon the grounds for any of the following purposes:

(1) Exhibit, such as dog shows and the like;

(2) Those portions of any park specifically set aside for riding schools or rodeo purposes; or

(3) Those portions of any park specifically set aside for dogs and their owners, and pursuant to the terms and conditions for such use, as adopted by resolution of the council.

For the purposes of this section and any resolutions adopted to effect the purposes of this section, the term “owner” means any person having charge or control of a dog or any other animal.

(b) Firearms and Fireworks. To carry or bring therein any firearms, airguns, slingshots, firecrackers, rockets, torpedoes, or any other fireworks.

(c) Fires. To make camp fires in any other places than in stoves or pits provided by the recreation-park department; provided, however, that the director of recreation and parks may issue special permits for fires in such places or locations as may be deemed safe or which do not interfere with the public welfare.

(d) Removing Grass, Flowers, Sand, etc. To cut or remove any wood, turf, grass, rock, flowers, trees, shrubs, sand, or gravel, except by permit from the director of recreation and parks.

(e) Destroying, etc., Athletic Equipment. To remove, damage, or destroy any athletic equipment or paraphernalia, provided therefor by the recreation-park department, reasonable wear thereto excepted.

(f) Harming Birds. To wound, kill, or catch, or attempt to wound, kill, or catch, any bird.

(g) Boisterous, Indecent, etc., Conduct or Language. To indulge in riotous, boisterous, threatening, or indecent conduct, or abusive, threatening, profane, or indecent language, or operate any radio or musical instrument in such a manner as to disturb in any manner any picnic, meeting, services, concert, exercise, or exhibition.

(h) Camping. To camp or lodge in any park or upon the grounds above except in the following instances:

(1) By special permit issued by the city; or

(2) Persons may camp in self-contained recreational vehicles only at the roadside rest area at the Sherwood Rodeo Regional Recreation Area for a single stay of not more than twenty-four hours in any seven-day period.

For the purposes of this subsection, the term “single stay” is defined as beginning at the time the vehicle is first parked at the rest area and ending twenty-four hours after the time the vehicle is first parked irrespective of whether the vehicle is temporarily removed from the rest area during the twenty-four period.

For the purposes of this subsection, the term “self-contained recreational vehicle” is defined as any vehicle intended for temporary human habitation and in which a sanitary toilet facility for urination and defecation and the sanitary storage of such human waste is an integral, working, and useable component of the vehicle that is contained completely within the vehicle.

(i) Riding Animals, etc., on Footpaths. To ride or bring any horse or other animal or to propel any vehicle, cycle, or automobile on any foot paths or elsewhere than on roads, bridle paths, or drives provided for such purpose.

(j) Loudspeakers; Radios. To operate or use any loudspeaker or loudspeaking sound amplifying device in any public park unless by written permission of the director of recreation and parks first obtained; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing the use of small portable radios when used for the purpose of receiving programs broadcast from regularly authorized and licensed broadcasting stations, but in no event shall such radios be operated at such volume as to disturb or annoy other persons present in such park.

(k) Peddling. To sell or offer for sale any goods, merchandise, article, or thing whatsoever, without the written consent of the director of recreation and parks, who shall give such consent only upon a satisfactory showing that the conduct of the park or grounds wherein is sought such right to sell or offer for sale justifies such consent in the interest of the public convenience or comfort.

(l) Soliciting, etc. To practice, carry on, conduct, or solicit for any trade, occupation, business, or profession, without the written consent of the director of recreation and parks, who shall give such consent only upon a satisfactory showing that the conduct of the park or grounds wherein the exercise of such right is sought justifies such consent in the interest of the public convenience or comfort.

(m) Parking Vehicles. To park any automobile or other vehicle at any place where such parking may be prohibited by order of the director of recreation and parks or the city manager. Places where parking is prohibited shall be designated by appropriate signs.

(n) Speed of Vehicles. To drive or operate any motor vehicle in excess of fifteen miles per hour in any park.

(o) Playing Games. To play or engage in any game or contest excepting at such places as shall be especially provided or designated for that purpose.

(p) Littering. To throw or deposit any bottles, tin cans, broken glass, paper, clothes, sheet iron, rubbish, soil, tree trimmings, refuse, garbage, or debris of any kind, except in places and receptacles provided therefor.

(q) Removing Signs. To remove from any park equipment, any sign indicating that such equipment is reserved.

(r) Dangerous Matter. To bring or cause or permit to be brought into any public park any material which will, if spilled or spread, be injurious to turf or plant growth.

(s) Celebrations, Parades, etc. To hold, conduct, or participate in any celebration, parade, service, or exercise without first obtaining permission so to do from the director of recreation and parks, who shall give such permission only upon a satisfactory showing that such event is sponsored by a responsible person, organization, firm, or corporation.

(t) Fees and Permits. To use any park facility for which a charge is now or hereafter may be made by any ordinance of the city, without first having paid the fee required therefor and having received the required permit.

(u) Use of Toilets. For any male person over eight years of age to enter or use any toilet or water-closet designated “For Women,” or for any female person over eight years of age to enter or use any toilet or water-closet designated “For Men.”

(v) Loitering. To loiter or remain in any public park at any time between time posted for closing at night and daylight of the following morning.

(w) Bribing Park Employees. To offer gratuitously any money, gift, bribe, or favor to any park employee.

(x) Driving or Parking on Grass. To park or drive any automobile or motor vehicle on any turfed area, except upon occasions when general permission to do so may be given by the director of recreation and parks.

(y) Moving Field Equipment. To move or remove from one location to another any part or parts of field equipment.

(z) Moving, etc., Maintenance Equipment. To move or remove from one location to another or destroy any equipment used for the upkeep of the park or grounds.

(aa) Tampering with Water Valves. To open or close any valves pertaining to the water mains in the parks or grounds.

(bb) Playing Tennis. To play upon any tennis court wearing shoes other than those having vulcanized rubber soles and heels.

(cc) Doubles Tennis. When any tennis court is in use for singles play and other players are waiting, to refuse to open the court for doubles play at the end of the set then being played.

(dd) Tennis Tournaments. To use any tennis court or courts for tennis tournaments or other special events of any kind unless permit be first obtained from the recreation and park department.

(ee) Nonpayment of Admission Fee.

(1) To enter or go into, to cause or to assist, or to attempt to cause or assist, any other person to go into, any seat, box, space, enclosure, room, theatre, grandstand, runway, stadium, bath house, plunge, or any other place in the public parks of the city, to which an admission or permit fee or charge is made or charged, unless such person whose entrance is attempted shall have paid the full legal fee or charge made for such entrance as is attempted or gained, prior to entrance or attempted entrance thereon or therein.

(2) Nothing contained in this subsection shall apply to any person entering any of the places named herein who shall do so by reason of and by the consent or permission of the person or persons in charge of any such place.

(ff) Using Reserved Facilities. To use any park facility which has been reserved or which is indicated by a sign to have been reserved, without first having received permission from the director of recreation and parks.

(gg) Interference with Spectators. To do any act which unnecessarily disturbs or interferes with spectators at any event conducted in any park, or to enter any area provided for or occupied by spectators at any such event for the purpose of doing any such act.

(hh) Ride or use a skateboard, roller skates, roller-blades, in-line skates, bikes or other similar devices at a city skate park facility without wearing safety equipment which shall include a helmet, elbow pads and knee pads. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, violation of this subsection (hh) shall be an infraction. (Ord. No. 872 (NCS), § 4; Ord. No. 2277 (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 2362 (NCS), § 1; Ord. No. 2384 (NCS), § 1.)