Ch4.§4-3 · City of Nowthen public records

A. Alcoholic, Intoxicating Beverages and Drugs. It shall be unlawful for any person to: 1\. Serve, possess or consume any alcoholic beverage, except beer and wine. 2\. Use, manufacture, possess, constructively possess, sell, give away, barter, exchange, distribute or otherwise transfer any controlled substance within a City Park. 3\. Sell, barter, furnish or give alcoholic beverages to a person under twenty one (21) years of age. 4\. Possess or bring beer or wine into a park in kegs or barrels. B. Public Nuisance - Personal Conduct: It shall be unlawful for any person to: 1\. Intentionally expose his or her genitals, pubic area, buttocks or female breast below the top of the areola, with less than a fully opaque covering while wading, swimming or using any beach or other areas within a park, if five (5) years of age or older. 2\. No person or group of persons shall use threatening, abusive, insulting, obscene or indecent language or commit, perform or engage in any lewd, lascivious, obscene or indecent act in any park. 3\. No person or group of person shall engage in fighting, quarreling, wrangling, riotous clamor, or tumult in any park. 4\. No person or group of person shall disturb, harass or interfere with any user or the user's property in any park.   C. Littering/Dumping: It shall be unlawful for any person to: 1\. Deposit, scatter, drop, dispose or abandon in a park: bottles, cans, broken glass, hot coals, ashes, sewage, waste or other material, except in receptacles provided for such purposes; or 2\. Dispose of any household or yard waste or commercial waste in a City Park. D. Possession and Use of Firearms / Dangerous Weapons / Fireworks / Hunting: It shall be unlawful for any person to: 1\. Have in their possession, fire, discharge or cause to be fired or discharged across, in or into any portion of a park, any gun or firearm, spear, bow and arrow, crossbow, sling shot, air or gas weapon, or any other dangerous weapon or projectile, except in areas and at times designated by the City Council for such use, or with a permit; or 2\. Possess, set off or attempt to set off or ignite any firecracker, fireworks, smoke bombs, rockets, black powder guns or other pyrotechnics without authorization from the City Council. 3\. Engage in hunting or the taking of wild animals as defined in Minnesota Statute 97A, subdivision 55, 47 and 26, within any park, without having a permit from the City Council. E. Pets in Parks: It shall be unlawful for any person to: 1\. Permit a pet, except service dogs trained and certified to assist persons with disabilities, to enter or be in a park except in parking lots, on approved trails unattended and leashed. 2\. Bring a pet into a park unless controlled on a leash. 3\. Permit a pet to disturb, harass or interfere with any park visitor a park visitor's property, property of a park employee, contractor of the city, or park wildlife; or, 4\. Have custody or control of any dog or domestic pet in a park without possessing an appropriate device for cleaning up pet feces and disposing of the feces in a sanitary manner; or, 5\. For any person to intentionally abandon or release any animal, living or deceased, within the boundaries of any Nowthen parks.   F. Destruction / Defacement of Park Property and Signs: It shall be unlawful for any person to: 1\. Intentionally deface, vandalize or otherwise cause destruction to park property; or, 2\. Intentionally deface, destroy, cover, damage or remove any placard, notice or sign, or parts thereof, whether permanent or temporary, posted or exhibited by the City. (Ord. #20, adopted December 12, 2006)

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