AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING AND ESTABLISHING RULES AND REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AND ENFORCED WITHIN THE PUBLIC PARKS OF THE CITY OF YAMHILL, OREGON, AND PROVIDING FOR PUNISHMENT FOR VIOLATION THEREOF, AS AUTHORIZED BY OREGON REVISED STATUTES, SECTION 226.010.

The City of Yamhill does ordain as follows:

Section 1. The words "public parks" as used herein shall mean and include all of the properties now or hereafter owned and/or controlled by the city of Yamhill, Oregon, and operated as parks available for the use of the public, including all of that property known as "Beulah Park" deeded to the city of Yamhill by deeds recorded in Volume 93, Page 513, Deed Records of Yamhill County, Oregon, which park lies in part outside the corporate limits of the city of Yamhill.

Section 2. For the conduct of persons using or frequenting the public parks of the city of Yamhill, Oregon, as above defined, the following rules and regulations to be observed and enforced within or near by said public parks are hereby established:

(a) No person shall cut, damage or remove any flower, shrub, or tree without prior obtained permission from the Yamhill city council.

(b) No person shall deface, injure, damage, mutilate, or molest any building, installation, piece of equipment, or personal property, be it publicly or privately owned, within any public park.

(c) No person shall build any fire within any public park except it be built in a stove or fireplace provided therefor.

(d) No person shall permit any dog to run at large within any park, and all dogs within the public parks shall be kept in control on a leash at all times.

(e) No person shall ride or drive any horse or other animal or permit any horse or other animal to go upon any portion of the public parks at any time except on roads and regularly provided parking areas in said parks, or to ride or drive any horse or other animal in a reckless manner or permit them to be so ridden or driven within said parks.

(f) No motor vehicle or bicycle shall be operated, stopped or parked or left standing any place in a public park except on roads or parking areas provided therefor, or, be driven in a manner contrary to law.

(g) Parking or loitering in public parks in the night time after 10:00 p.m. is prohibited, and all persons shall be excluded from said parks between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., except as may be permitted for special occasions under order of the City Council. A violation of this provision shall constitute a misdemeanor and be punishable as such.

(h) No person shall solicit or engage in the sale of merchandise or services or operate any concessions within any public park without permit from the City Council previously obtained.

(i) No person shall dump or dispose of any garbage in any public park except in receptacles provided therefor, including stoves and fireplaces.

(j) No person shall scatter or dispose of any bottles, broken glass, tin cans, waste or discarded paper, or litter, or waste material, or rubbish of any kind in or around any part of the public park excepting receptacles provided therefor, including stoves and fireplaces for burnable materials only.

(k) No person shall discharge any firearm, air rifle, slingshot or other such missile, or any bow and arrow, within or across any public park or portion thereof, or discharge any fireworks therein except on special concession previously obtained from the City Council.

(l) No person shall possess, consume, give away or otherwise dispose of any hard liquor or narcotic drugs within or near to any public parks. [Subsection (l) as amended by Ordinance No. 306, passed January 26, 1977.]

(m) No person shall be guilty of any misdemeanor, disorderly conduct, or unnecessary roughness in or about any public park.

(n) All ordinances of the city of Yamhill shall apply to and be in full force and effect within the public parks owned or controlled by the city of Yamhill even though such parks be wholly or in part outside the corporate limits of said city.

Section 3. Any person who shall violate any of the foregoing established rules and regulations shall, upon conviction thereof before the Municipal Judge of Yamhill, Oregon, be punishable by a fine of not to exceed $100.00, or by imprisonment in the city or county jail for not to exceed 25 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the Judge.

Section 4. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or portion of this ordinance for any reason shall be adjudged invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such judgement shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this ordinance but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section, or part of this ordinance directly involved in the controversy in which such judgement is rendered.

Section 5. Insofar as there has been vandalism, rifle target practice, shooting of protected song birds, pasturing of cattle, and other depredations within said Buelah Park, thus placing in jeopardy the peace, health, and safety of the people of the city of Yamhill;

Now therefore, an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this ordinance shall become and be in full force from and after its passage by the Council and its approval by the Mayor.

Passed by the Council and approved by the Mayor June 14, 1954.