Sacramento Park Regulations
Article III. Park Use
12.72.060 Park use regulations.
No person shall:
A. Conduct or carry on an assembly of more than fifty (50) people in a park, which assembly is intended or can reasonably be expected to last more than thirty (30) minutes or which does in fact last more than thirty (30) minutes, unless a park use permit has been first issued therefore;
B. Conduct or carry on any organized activity in the park facilities designated as McKinley Park Rose Garden, William Carroll Memorial Amphitheater, Callahan Memorial Bank Shell, or Land Park Village Green, unless a park use permit has first been issued therefore;
C. Use any amplified sound without first obtaining an amplified sound permit. This prohibition shall not apply to the use of any radio, tape player, tape recorder, record player or television in compliance with Section 10.12.090 or Section 8.68.200(M) of this code or to broadcasts from any vehicle to which the provisions of Sections 10.60.010 through 10.60.090 of this code are applicable.
D. Engage in any commercial activity in any park, except a nonprofit organization pursuant to a fund raising permit therefore or pursuant to a lease or concession contract issued under Chapters 3.68 or 3.72 of this code, or pursuant to any exemption to Chapters 3.68 or 3.72.
E. Engage in any fund raising activity in any park, except pursuant to a permit issued therefore; provided, however, that funds may be raised without first securing a permit for organizational dues or to defray the cost of the activity by a nonprofit organization or in connection with a city sponsored or co-sponsored activity;
F. Engage in any business activity in any park;
G. Interfere with the use of any park or portion thereof which at the time is reserved by permit for the use of any other person or group;
H. Ride bicycles, smoke, drink alcoholic beverages or picnic in children’s playground areas;
I. No person eighteen (18) years or older shall remain in or enter a children’s playground area unless actually engaged in the care, custody or supervision of a person younger than eighteen (18) years of age who is using the facilities in the area;
J. Bring any wild or domesticated animal or pet into or upon grounds of the zoo, Fairytale Town, any swimming pool, any golf course, commercial amusement area or children’s playground area;
K. In park areas other than those designated in subsection J of this section, no person shall bring any domesticated animal or pets unless they are leashed except as provided in Section 9.44.020(D)(1) of this code.
L. Possess, discharge or shoot any firearm or bow and arrow in any park, except in areas designated for such use. Slingshots, airguns, fireworks, and other devices potentially harmful to park visitors are prohibited in all parks;
M. Play or practice golf in any area not designated for such use;
N. Swim or wade except in supervised swimming or wading pools;
O. Engage in horseback riding, except on designated bridle paths;
P. Kill, chase, wound, or capture any wild or domestic bird, or animal in a park. This subsection shall not apply to the chasing or capturing of one’s own animal;
Q. Intentionally remove, break, injure, deface, or disturb any plant material, structure, or improvement;
R. Contaminate in any way any water, fountains, pools, lakes, rivers, other water supply, or wash any clothing or cooking utensils in any such waters;
S. Dispose of trash or garbage not accumulated within park areas; no person shall dispose of trash or garbage accumulated within park areas other than in receptacles provided for this purpose;
T. Start or maintain fires in parks other than in "on-site" barbecue pits or personal portable barbecues within designated picnic areas. No person shall fail to extinguish live coals or fires before leaving the picnic area;
U. Open, expose, or interfere with any water system or utility, provided that this prohibition shall not apply to the use of any drinking fountain for its intended purpose;
V. Use or operate any vehicle or other motorized objects in the following ways:
1. Operating gasoline or other fuel-powered vehicles (except golf carts where authorized) in any park, except upon streets, parking lots or other areas designated for such use, unless expressly permitted in writing by the director. This subsection shall not apply to city employees on official business,
2. Operating or parking any vehicle as defined in the California Vehicle Code within a park, except upon areas designated for such use, unless expressly permitted in writing by the director. This subsection shall not apply to city employees on official business;
W. Camp in any park without a park use permit;
X. The playing of softball or baseball by any person fifteen (15) years of age or older on any softball or baseball field where signs are posted which prohibit such play by such person;
Y. Do the following acts in Garcia Bend Park, Miller Park, or the Sacramento Boat Harbor:
1. Park outside the areas designated for parking or double-park at any time,
2. Park any vehicle or trailer in a boat launch area other than while putting a boat in or taking a boat out of the water,
3. Park any trailer in any section posted "NO TRAILER PARKING";
Z. Dock a vessel at any city-owned or city-managed recreation dock for more than thirty-six (36) consecutive hours or for the purpose of living on board the vessel for more than one night while docked at the recreation dock. One or more persons on board the vessel at any time between the hours of one a.m. and six a.m. shall be conclusively presumed to be living aboard for the night. A vessel which departs a courtesy dock after being docked for twenty-four (24) hours or more, or which departs a courtesy dock after having docked for the purpose of living on board for one night, shall not return to the same courtesy dock until at least twenty-four (24) hours have elapsed. The term "recreation dock" shall include the courtesy docks in Miller Park, Garcia Bend, and Old Sacramento, and any other dock operated primarily for temporary docking purposes. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the city council, by resolution, may establish special rules relating to use of the courtesy docks in Old Sacramento, which rules may permit longer periods of docking, impose fees for overnight docking privileges, and permit other special uses. (Ord. 98-019 § 1; prior code § 27.04.050)