PARK POLICING 



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Section 2. No company, society or organization shall 

 hold or conduct any picnic, celebration, parade, service 

 or exercise in any public park without first obtaining 

 permission from the city manager of said city, and it 

 shall be unlawful for any person to take part in any 

 picnic, celebration, service or exercise held or conducted 

 contrary to the provisions hereof. 



Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person hav- 

 ing the control or care of any dog to suffer or permit 

 such dog to enter or remain in a public park unless it 

 be led by a leash of suitable strength not more than 

 six feet in length. 



Section 4. It shall be unlawful for any male person 



over eight years of age to enter or use any water-closet 

 for women in a public park. 



Section 5. Any person violating any of the pro- 

 visions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be 

 punished by a fine in a sum not exceeding two hundred 

 dollars or by imprisonment in the city jail for a term 

 not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and 

 imprisonment at the discretion of the court. 



Section 6. All foremen and employees in public 

 parks are hereby given the power and authority of 

 special policemen for the purpose of making arrests 

 for any violation of the provisions of this ordinance. 



ORDINANCES RELATING TO THE GOVERNMENT OF PARKS, BUFFALO, NEW YORK 



Chapter LXVIII. Section I. Definitions. The 

 terms park and parks wherever used in this chapter, 

 unless otherwise stated, shall include the grounds 

 known as the Park, the Parade, the Front, and all 

 other parks, public grounds and public waters (not 

 being an approach or part of an approach) which are 

 now or may hereafter be under the control of the 

 Department of Parks and Public Buildings. The term 

 approach wherever used in this chapter shall include 

 the avenues and parkways leading to or connecting 

 said parks which are now or may hereafter be under 

 the control of the Department of Parks and Public 

 Buildings, and the Circle, and the Bank, Soldiers' 

 Place, Gates Circle (formerly Chapin Place), and 

 Colonial Circle (formerly Bidwell Place), and all other 

 lands forming and designated as a part of an approach. 

 The term person as used in this chapter shall include 

 an individual, firm, partnership, corporation and asso- 

 ciation of persons and the singular number shall include 

 the plural number. 



Section 2. All ordinances shall apply to every part 

 of the city, except that if any ordinance provision, 

 other than those contained in this chapter, is in con- 

 flict with the provisions of this chapter, the provisions 

 of this chapter shall control in the parks and park 

 approaches. 



Section 3. All public meetings, assemblies, military 

 and other parades and funeral processions are pro- 

 hibited in the parks and on park approaches, without 

 written permission from the commissioner of parks and 

 public buildings, except that the funeral of any person 

 held from a property abutting on any park approach 

 may proceed along such approach. No person shall 

 make any oration, harangue or public speech in any 

 park or park approach, without the written permission 

 of said commissioner. 



Section 4. No person shall play any music or keep 

 or offer anything for sale, except as otherwise provided 

 by law, or solicit passengers for hire, or post or display 

 any sign or placard, flag, banner, target, transparency, 

 or advertisement of any kind, within any park or park 

 approach, building or place under the jurisdiction of 



the Department of Parks and Public Buildings, with- 

 out the written permission of the said commissioner, 

 and then only subject to such rules and regulations as 

 shall be prescribed by said department. 



Section 5. No person shall make any ascent in any 

 balloon or aeroplane from any park or parkway, nor 

 land therein from any such balloon, aeroplane or para- 

 chute. 



Section 6. No person shall fire or discharge any 

 gun, pistol, firearm or any rocket, torpedo or other 

 fireworks of any description, throw stones or missiles, 

 build any fire, or carry any firearm in any park or 

 parkway, without legal authority to do so. 



Section 7. No person shall engage in any sport, 

 game or amusement in any park or park approach, 

 except upon such portions thereof as may be designated 

 for the purpose by the Department of Parks and Public 

 Buildings, and then only under such rules and regu- 

 lations as may be prescribed by said department. Per- 

 mits for the exclusive use of any picnic or playground 

 for any specified date or time, not longer than one day, 

 may be granted at the discretion of said commissioner, 

 and no person shall in any manner disturb or interfere 

 with any person or party occupying the ground under 

 such permit. 



Section 8. No person shall climb any tree, or pluck 

 any flowers, or fruit, wild or cultivated, or break, cut 

 down, trample upon, remove, or in any manner injure 

 or deface, write upon, defile or ill-use any tree, shrub, 

 flower, flower bed, turf, ornament, statue, building, 

 fence, bridge, structure or other property within any 

 park or park approach. 



Section 9. No person shall bathe in any of the parks, 

 park approaches or the waters connected therewith, 

 except such places as may be designated therefor by 

 the Department of Parks and Public Buildings, or 

 attempt to take any fish, or send or throw any animal 

 or thing into or upon any of the waters of the parks, 

 or kill, injure or attempt to injure, or unnecessarily 

 disturb the fish in said waters or any waterfowl or 

 other birds or animals, wild or domestic, within any 

 of the parks or park approaches. Nor shall any person 



