El Dorado County Municipal Code Art. II Visitor Conduct

No person shall enter any park or any area of a park that is closed to the public, nor use any park or any area of a park for an unauthorized purpose. No person shall remain on or reenter a park or any area of a park after a Department employee or designee or peace officer has specifically revoked permission to use such park or area of a park.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.200; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

No person in a park shall damage, deface, paint, tamper with, displace or remove any property or facilities, including buildings, signs, gates, fences, equipment, markers, trash receptacles, landscaping, paving material, utilities or water lines.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.210; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

A. Reserved activities involving the noncommercial use of parks, including day camping, overnight camping, group picnics, group gatherings and other events, are to be allowed subject to obtaining a park use permit from the Manager. The purposes of the permit requirement are to ensure conformance with applicable park rules, regulations, and policies; to avoid conflicts among group activities; and to allow the County to prepare for or to offset operation, maintenance, and security impacts of group activities. The permit requirement is not intended to, nor shall it operate to, limit or prevent the full exercise of rights of free expression guaranteed by the California and United States Constitutions.

B. An application for a park use permit shall be filed by an authorized representative of the person planning, sponsoring, or hosting the activity. The application shall be made on forms provided by the Department, shall be received by the Department not less than 14 days before the proposed reserved activity, and shall be accompanied by the tender of a fee in an amount set by resolution of the Board of Supervisors. The fee shall not exceed the amount necessary to offset the administrative, operational, maintenance, and security costs that the reserved activity may reasonably be expected to impose on county personnel and resources. The Manager may shorten or waive the 14-day requirement upon a showing of good cause.

C. The Manager shall approve the application for a park use permit unless the reserved activity as proposed does not conform with applicable park rules, regulations, and policies, or it conflicts in time, place, or manner with a reserved activity for which a park use permit has already been approved. The Manager's decision shall be made within 14 calendar days or before the date of the proposed reserved activity, whichever comes first.

D. Any person may appeal the Manager's decision directly to the Board within 15 calendar days. The appeal shall be heard at the first available meeting of the Board, and except as specified in this chapter, the appeal shall be governed by the procedures of Chapter 2.09. The County shall make every reasonable effort to hear and decide the appeal before the date of the proposed reserved activity.

E. This section does not affect any permitting, licensing, or other regulatory requirements applicable to the proposed reserved activity under any other Federal, State, County, or local law or regulation. Commercial activities in parks are governed by Section 9.46.320.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.220; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

Parents and guardians shall be responsible for the conduct of their minor children and shall not permit such minor children to do any act within parks that is prohibited by this chapter.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.230; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

No person shall possess, use, discharge or cause to be discharged any gun, firearm or weapon while in a park, including any air or gas weapon, spring gun, spear, bow and arrow, crossbow, sling shot, animal trap, knife with blade over five inches long, explosive or any other form of weapon potentially dangerous to wildlife or human safety. No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any gun, firearm or weapon onto or across a park from outside the boundary of a park.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.240; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

No person in a park shall make or cause to be made any loud and raucous, unnecessary or unusual noise which by its volume causes discomfort or annoyance to any reasonable person of normal sensitivity. Except as allowed by a park use permit, no person shall operate any public address system, amplified musical instrument or other noise-producing or transmitting device in a park. This section does not apply to radios and similar devices operated at volumes that do not disturb others using a park.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.250; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

No person using lands or facilities managed by the Department shall do any of the following:

A. Urinate or defecate other than at restrooms provided.

B. Fail to cooperate in maintaining restrooms in a neat and sanitary condition.

C. Use restrooms designated for the opposite gender, except that small children accompanied by an adult guardian may use a restroom designated for the adult's gender.

D. Fail to clean up feces deposited by their pet.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.260; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

No person shall bathe, swim, wade, wash or otherwise enter any water or waterways within or adjacent to a park in areas posted against such use.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.270; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

No person shall throw, drop, place, deposit or sweep any object, including, but not limited to, paper, food scraps, bottles, bottle caps, cans, fish or fish parts, soil or rocks within any park, except in trash receptacles. If trash receptacles are not provided or are full, all such matter shall be carried away by the person responsible for its presence and be properly disposed of elsewhere.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.280; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

No person shall dispose of solid waste, hazardous waste, radioactive waste or medical waste in a park. No person shall bring any of these wastes into a park, or cause any of them to be brought into a park. For purposes of this section, the terms "solid waste" and "hazardous waste" are as defined in Public Resources Code §§ 40191 and 40141, respectively, and the terms "radioactive waste" and "medical waste" are all materials regulated by Health and Safety Code § 114960 et seq., and Health and Safety Code § 117600 et seq., respectively.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.290; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

No person shall erect any temporary or permanent obstruction, structure, monument, facility, physical improvement, encroachment or sign in a park except by express permission. Any such unauthorized item may be impounded or demolished by the Department in accordance with law.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.300; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

No person shall abandon or leave unattended or without permission any personal property or device in a park for a period longer than 12 hours. Any property or device so abandoned or unattended may be impounded and disposed of pursuant to Section 9.46.100.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.310; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

1. No person shall do any of the following in a park or at a park entrance or exit, except by express permission:

A. Sell, hawk, or otherwise peddle any goods, merchandise or services.

B. Station or place any stand, cart or vehicle for display of goods, merchandise or services.

C. Distribute, circulate or post any handbill, pamphlet or other advertisement regarding sale of goods, merchandise or services.

D. Conduct any commercial filming or photography or activity related to commercial filming or photography.

E. Conduct any activity of a commercial nature.

2. The Manager may, but need not, grant permission to conduct any of the foregoing activities on a one-time or short-term basis upon written application. Any such permission shall be subject to payment of an appropriate fee calculated from fees established by the Board for commercial uses. Permission to conduct any of the foregoing activities on a recurring or long-term basis, or on a one-time or short-term basis after the Manager has denied an application, can be obtained only by a written agreement approved by the Board.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.320; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

No person shall do any of the following in a park:

A. Engage in behavior that a reasonable person of the community would find harassing or disturbing to others, and that actually causes a complaint of harassment or disturbance.

B. Accost another person for the purpose of begging or soliciting except as permitted under Sections 9.46.220 or 9.46.320.

C. Be under the influence of intoxicating or dangerous drugs in such a condition that the individual is unable to exercise care for their own safety or the safety of others.

D. Engage in conduct whose loudness a reasonable person of the community would find disturbing, or in any act that is likely to result in imminent violence that cannot be prevented by crowd control.

E. Appear in a state of dress or undress in which the pubic hair, genitals, buttocks, anal region or any portion of the female breast below the top of the areola are exposed. In addition, no person shall do any thing that constitutes disorderly conduct under Penal Code § 647.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.330; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

The Board may, by resolution, designate certain parks or areas within parks in which no person shall maintain or consume alcoholic beverages of any kind. In such cases, the area shall be prominently posted. The Board's resolution prohibiting alcoholic beverages in such park or portion thereof may contain procedures for securing a waiver against a prohibition under special circumstances.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.340; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)

No person shall introduce, cause to be introduced or otherwise disperse in a park any organism, living or dead, including native or non-native plants, animals, fish, insects or bacteria, except as necessary for fishing bait and as permitted in the California Fish and Game Code.

(Code 1997, § 9.46.350; Ord. No. 4586, 8-14-2001)