§ 50-1. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Director means a person so designated and in charge of the parks and recreation department and its divisions.

Disrupt means to interrupt the orderly course of, by action or noise.

Disturb means to throw into disorder; to move from a state of rest or regular order; to interrupt a settled state of, to throw out of course or order; to cause annoyance, disquiet, agitation or derangement to any person or group of persons, or interrupt his or their peace, or to interfere with him or them by the use of loud or vociferous or obscene, vulgar or indecent language, or by the use of yelling or shrieking or any other loud, unreasonable or otherwise disruptive action or noise.

Park means a playground, recreation center or any other area in the city, owned or used by the city, and devoted to active or passive recreation, including all planted expressways, parkways and traffic circles maintained by the city, except the parkway strips between curb and sidewalks along the several streets and expressways of the city.

Smoking means the combustion of any cigar, cigarette, pipe or other similar article, using any form of tobacco or other combustible substance in any form. This includes the carrying or holding of a lighted pipe, cigar, or cigarette of any kind, or any other lighted smoking equipment or device, and the lighting or emitting or exhaling the smoke of a pipe, cigar, or cigarette of any kind.

Tobacco products mean any cigar, cigarette, chewing tobacco, snuff or other tobacco derivative.

Vehicle means any wheeled conveyance, whether motor-powered or drawn. Exception is made for baby carriages, bicycles and tricycles on designated paths, and vehicles in the service of the city.

(Code 1969, § 18-2; Ord. No. 98-094, § 3, 9-21-1998)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2.