UntitledPLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the following Ordinance Amending the
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Ordinance REgulating the use of park lands in the Town of WapP g
s ado ted by the Town Board of the Town of Wappinger at regular
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meeting of October 21, 1985.
BE IT RESOLVED AND ORDA_NED as follows.-
Section 1: That this ordinance shall supersede prior
ordinances regulating the use: of park lands in the Town of
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Section 2: This ordinance shall ay:)ply to all park 1�:nds
ia:,4_th_r. the confines of the Town of Wappinger, Dutchess County,
N�,w Yorr., exclusive of those lands lying within the corporate
of the Village of Wappi-:oer Falls.
S._ cti,:)n ? It shall be u:_l.awful for anyone to ride,
pus,'-., pull. or cperate a rrlotor vchicle, a motorc%,cle, mot_,r
bike, a snowmobile, or any other type of vehicle mechan.ic.ally
driven x-.i_'-hin any park lands in the Tok^i of Wappinger, except
cri highways, roadways or streets or in parking areas des--gnated
for the use of such vehicles within such park lands.
Section 4: It shall be unlawful for anyone to ride,
push, pull or operate a motor vehicle, a motorcycle, motor
bike, a s=s,-mobile, or any other type of vehicle mechanically
driven within any area of a park; un'_e.ss that person who is
operating or in,charge of th,2 said mechanical device is duly
licensed by the State of New York o,,r the State of his/her
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section 5: It shall b�� illegal and unlawful for any
pt!rson to use, enter upon or oc:.upy any? park lands within the
Town: of Wappinger, Dutchess.
Cou::it.y,
New
York,
except stric-:ly
durinc the hcxirs established
for its
use
by the
Town of
Wappinger
Recreation Commission. Until the hours are changed by the said
Cc: m.issi_on, the legal hours for the parks shall be as fol lows :
the park lands shall be open one hour before sunrise and shall
be closed one hour after sunset.
Section 6: The Town Bcard of the Town of Wappinger
hereby delegates to the said Town of Wappinger Recreat-on
Commission hereafter the duty of establishing the hours for
the use by persons of each of the parks or portions thereof
within the Town of Wappinger. In the event any change of
the park hours shall be made, such hours of opening and closing
shall be posted in the Town Clerk's Office of the Town of
Wappinger and at such other places as the Town Board may
direct. However, regardless of the posting of signs at
the parks themselves it shall be deemed that any user thereof
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is charged with knowledge concerning the hours that the park
shall remain open and the hours when the same is closed. In
the event any person violates the hours of such park opening
and closing as posted at the Town Hall, such person for the
purposes of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a trespass
upon said park lands in violation of this ordinance.
Sect:ian 7: In the evert the Town of Wappinger
Recreation Co,-unission modifies the hours herein, such rzodified
schedule shall be filed with t', -Ie Town; Clerk within ten (10)
days after its adcpt-ion or am_ndment and the Town Clerk shall
post such new hours.
Section 8: Any person violating the provisions of this
ordinance shall be guilty of a violation of the Feral Law o`
the State of New York.
Section 9: This ordinance shall take effect immediately
upon adaption, posting and publication, as provided by Town Law.
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