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BY-LAW NO. 1488
AMENDMENT NO. 1503, 1625
ST. JOHN”S PARKS BY-LAW
PASSED BY COUNCIL ON March 13, 2006
Pursuant to the powers vested in it under the City of St. John’s Act, RSNL 1990 c.C-17, as amended and all other powers enabling it, the City of St. John’s enacts the following By-Law related to the regulation of parks.
ST. JOHN’S PARKS BY-LAW
1. This By-Law may be cited as the “St. John’s Parks By-Law”.
2. In this By-Law:
(a) “all terrain vehicle” means a motorized vehicle designed and constructed for travel on or immediately over land, water, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, and other natural terrain, including a four-wheel drive or low-pressure-tire powered vehicle, low-pressure-tire motorcycle and related two-wheel vehicle, snowmobile, amphibious machine, ground effect or air-cushioned vehicle, but does not include a motor vehicle;
(b) “T’Railway” means the system of recreational trails which originally formed part of the railway;
(c) “Grand Concourse” means recreational trails constructed or maintained by the Grand Concourse Authority;
(d) “Motorized Watercraft” means full-size and model watercraft and personal motorized watercraft;
(e) “Parks” means Bowring Park, Bannerman Park, Victoria Park, Kent’s Pond, Kenny’s Pond, Rotary Park/Sunshine Camp, Long Pond, Mundy Pond, Quidi Vidi Lake, T’Railway, Grand Concourse and Play Lots and includes any land owned, leased or controlled by the City, designated or used as a park, playground, sport field, trail or public open space; and (Amended 2007/07/10; #1503)
(f) “Director” means the Director of Public Works & Parks.
(g) “Play Lot” means an area in a residential subdivision having an area of not more than 1,000 m2 which is designed and equipped for childrens’ play. (Amended 2007/07/10; #1503)
GENERAL/APPLICABLE TO ALL PARKS
3. (1) Parks shall open at 7:00 a.m. and shall, with the exception of the Bowring Park Bungalow and the Rotary Park/Sunshine Camp Chalet, close at 11:00 p.m., unless otherwise permitted by the Director.
(2) Notwithstanding section 3(1) Play Lots shall close 30 minutes after sunset. (Amended 2007/07/10; #1503)
4. (1) No person shall obstruct, litter or befoul any park, including waterbodies and watercourses therein, with any refuse, debris, litter, garbage or any unsanitary, offensive or injurious substance or article of any kind, or place, leave or keep in any park, including waterbodies and watercourses therein, any dilapidated or unsightly vehicle, machine, article or thing.
(2) No person shall remove, destroy, mutilate or deface any structure, monument, statue, fountain, wall, fence, railing, bridge, seat, vehicle, tree, shrub, plant, fern, flowers or any other property in a park.
(3) No person shall walk, stand, sit or climb on any border, flower bed, monument, statue, fountain, railing or parapet in a park.
(4) No person shall take or attempt to take any bird or bird’s egg from a nest, nor set any trap, nor use any other means for taking any bird or animal or destroying or injuring same.
(5) No person shall wash any vehicle or article or thing in any water body or watercourse situate within a park.
5. (1) Camping is prohibited in a park, unless permitted by the Director.
(2) Open air fires, including open fire grills and barbecues are prohibited in a park, unless permitted by the Director; however, propane stoves, grills and barbecues may be used in a park.
(3) Fireworks and rocket propelled devices are prohibited in a park.
6. (1) Except in a city operated dog park, all dogs or other animals shall be under effective control by means of a leash or harness in a park.
(2) Every owner of a dog or other animal present with the dog or animal at the time the dog or animal fouls with excrement any park property shall forthwith remove the excrement and place same in an appropriate receptacle.
7. Except at the Kenny’s Pond mini-golf facility, golfing is prohibited in a park.
8. (1) Motor vehicles shall be operated in accordance with the signage posted.
(2) No person shall operate or cause to operate a motorized watercraft or all terrain vehicle in any park unless otherwise provided in this By-Law.
9. (1) No person shall sell or offer for sale in a park any commodity or thing whatsoever unless authorized by the Director.
(2) No person shall solicit or collect any money in a park except with permission of the Director.
GRAND CONCOURSE
10. Bicycles shall not be permitted on the Grand Concourse.
QUIDI VIDI LAKE
11. No person shall operate a watercraft, motorized and non-motorized, or an all-terrain vehicle on Quidi Vidi Lake without the permission of the Regatta Committee.
(1) Notwithstanding section 11, persons may operate canoes, kayaks and paddle boards on Quidi Vidi Lake from 12 noon on Saturdays to 6:00 p.m. on Sundays during the months of June through September, inclusive, without the permission of the Regatta Committee. (Amended 2020/03/18; #1625)
KENT’S POND, KENNY’S POND, LONG POND, MUNDY POND
12. No person shall operate a motorized watercraft or an all terrain vehicle on Kent’s Pond, Kenny’s Pond, Long Pond or Mundy Pond unless permitted by the Director.
ROTARY PARK/SUNSHINE CAMP
13. Motorized watercraft may be operated in Healey’s Pond.
BOWRING PARK
14. No person shall bathe or swim in the watercourses or water bodies in Bowring Park.
15. The provisions of this By-Law shall not apply to:
(a) motor vehicles of the City of St. John’s,
(b) motor vehicles of the Grand Concourse Authority,
(c) motor vehicles of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the St. John’s Regional Fire Department
(d) ambulances responding to a call or transporting a patient
PENALTIES
16. In addition to any penalty provided for herein, any person who contravenes the provisions of this By-Law may be ejected forthwith from a park.
Any person who contravenes the provisions of this By-Law shall be guilty of an offence and liable upon summary conviction to:
(i) a fine of one hundred dollars ($100.00) where the person is issued a ticket; or
(ii) a fine as provided for in section 403 of the City of St. John’s Act, as amended, where an Information is laid.
The following by-laws and regulations and all amendments thereto are hereby repealed:
City of St. John’s Camping in Parks By-Law
Quidi Vidi Lake Pollution By-Law
Quidi Vidi/Rennies River Trail Bicycle Regulation
Quidi Vidi Lake By-Law
St. John’s Motorized Watercraft By-Law
St. John’s Motorized Vehicle and All-Terrain Vehicle By-Law
The City of St. John’s Parks Regulations
Bowring Park Regulations
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