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PARKS 



The commission shall have the right on the letting 

 of any contract to reject any or all the bids. All con- 

 tracts or purchases involving a sum of less than one 

 thousand dollars shall be let or made in such manner 

 as to the commission shall seem for the best interests 

 of the county. 



16. The park commission shall have the right and it 

 hereby is authorized and empowered to bring or main- 

 tain in the name of the county of Westchester any 

 action or proceeding necessary to carry out the pur- 

 poses of this Act, also any action to recover damages 

 for the breach of any agreement growing out of the 

 management, improvement or government of the park 

 or parks or for damages for injuries to any of the prop- 

 erty appertaining thereto and it shall have the power 

 and right to seize and impound cattle and other animals 

 roaming in, on, or through such park or parks. 



17. The park commission shall, notwithstanding the 

 provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, 

 have the exclusive power to adopt and enforce rules, 

 regulations or ordinances governing the use of said 

 park or parks as denned herein and traffic in and 

 through the same and to provide that the violations of 

 any one or more of such rules, regulations or ordinances 

 shall constitute the crime of a misdemeanor and that on 

 conviction a person so offending may be punished by a 

 fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by im- 

 prisonment not exceeding thirty days, or by both such 

 fine and imprisonment, or it may enforce the observ- 

 ance of any one or more of such rules, regulations or 

 ordinances by prescribing a penalty not exceeding fifty 

 dollars in any one case to be recovered in a civil action 

 in any court having jurisdiction thereof, which action 

 shall be brought in the name of the county of West- 

 Chester. Such rules, regulations or ordinances, or any 

 amendment or addition thereto shall not be effective 

 until the same shall have been published in at least 

 three newspapers printed and published in the county 

 of Westchester once each week for three weeks. In any 

 action or proceeding, such rules, regulations or ordi- 

 nances, or any amendment or addition thereto shall be 

 deemed sufficiently proved by presenting a copy thereof 

 duly certified by the secretary or acting secretary of 

 the commission to the effect that the same is a true 

 copy as then in force by reason of being duly adopted 

 by the commission and that there is on file in the office 

 of said commission due proof of the publication thereof 

 as in this section provided. Nothing in this Act shall 

 be construed to abridge the right in any city or other 

 municipality to perform its lawful functions of govern- 

 ment within its boundaries or to pursue and apprehend 

 as it lawfully may any person or persons who commit 

 any breach of any statute, ordinance or regulation. Any 

 court of special sessions having jurisdiction within any 

 subdivision of the county of Westchester containing 

 territory included within said park or parks shall have 

 jurisdiction to hear and determine all charges involving 



the violation of any such rules, regulations or ordi- 

 nances, or any of the provisions thereof, provided, how- 

 ever, that where such violation is committed on the 

 boundary of two or more of said jurisdictions within 

 said county, or within five hundred yards thereof, or is 

 committed, partly in one such jurisdiction and partly 

 in another within said county, or the Acts or effects 

 thereof constituting or requisite to the consummation 

 of the offense, occur in two or more such jurisdictions, 

 the jurisdiction shall be in either of said jurisdictions 

 comprising and being, respectively, jurisdictions of any 

 such court of special sessions, or in that of any court 

 held in and for the county of Westchester in which 

 court persons accused of having committed a mis- 

 demeanor may be lawfully prosecuted by indictment 

 and provided, also, that where any violations of said 

 rules, regulations, or ordinances shall constitute a viola- 

 tion of any statute or of any ordinance, rule or regula- 

 tion of any city, town or village, the offender may be 

 prosecuted under either the provisions of such statute, 

 ordinance, rule or regulation, or under the rules, regu- 

 lations or ordinances adopted by said commission as 

 aforesaid, but a conviction or acquittal under one shall 

 bar a prosecution for the same act or omission under 

 any of the other of said statutes, ordinances, rules and 

 regulations; and provided, also, that the jurisdiction 

 above given to said courts to hear and determine all 

 violations of any such rule, regulation or ordinance 

 adopted by said commission shall be subject to the 

 right of removal, as provided by the code of criminal 

 procedure to a court having authority to inquire by the 

 intervention of a grand jury into offenses committed 

 within said county. 



1 8. The board of supervisors at any regular, special 

 or monthly meeting upon the request or requisition of 

 the park commission either at trje time of estimating 

 the cost of acquiring the property or at any one or 

 more subsequent time or times may estimate or make 

 additional estimates of the cost of the improvements 

 to be made to any one or more of the parks under the 

 jurisdiction of the park commission and make available 

 the necessary appropriation therefor and from time to 

 time authorize the issuance of certificates of indebted- 

 ness for the same, to be payable out of the proceeds of 

 bonds to be issued as hereinafter provided. All claims 

 lawfully incurred by the commission under and pur- 

 suant to the terms and provisions of this Act shall be 

 first approved by the park commission and paid as are 

 other county claims. The commission shall annually in 

 the month of April, file with the board of supervisors a 

 written report of its proceedings and a statement of all 

 its receipts and disbursements. 



19. The board of supervisors of the county of West- 

 chester are hereby authorized and empowered to issue 

 from time to time bonds of said county in the same 

 manner as other county bonds are issued, to take up 

 the certificates of indebtedness issued or authorized to 



