ORDINANCES, RULES AND
REGULATIONS

‘DEPARTMENT. of PARKS

OF THE

CITY OF NEW YORK

D; of..0.
JAN 22 1917

6023-’16 (L & 1) 10c0

OF THE
3 DEPARTMENT OF PARKS
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of the Ciry or New York

The Park Board under Chapter 610 of the Char-
ter (3d Edition, 1906) ordains as follows:

CHAPTER 17.

PARKS, PARK WAYS AND PARK-STREETS.

(REGULATIONS OF THE PARK BoarbD.)

Article 1. General provisions.
2. ‘Traffic regulations.
3. Building and other projections.
4. Miscellaneous. ©:

ARTICLE 1.

Section 1. Definitions.

. Interfering with lands or improve-
ments thereon.

Sub-surface disturbances.

Over-head wires.

Destruction of or injury to park prop-
erty.

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6. Preservation of lawns and grass plots.
?. Bringing trees, plants and flowers into
parks.
8. Use of roller skates.
9. Rubbish and refuse matter.
10. Processions; drills; music.
11. Public meetings.
12. Sales or exhibitions.
13. Posting bills or placards.
14. Bathing, fishing, boating and skating.
15. Protection of animals, birds and rep-
tiles.
15a. Baseball and Other Games.
16. Animals at large.
17%. Disorderly conduct.
18. Custodian of minors.

$1. Definitions. Unless otherwise expressly
stated, whenever used in this chapter, the follow-
ing terms shall respectively be deemed to mean:

1. Commissioner, or the commissioner, the
park commissioner having jurisdiction of a par-
ticular park, or park-street, as hereinafter de-
fined ;

2. Park, any park, parkway, square, circle, or
concourse, or part thereof, under the jurisdiction
of the park department ;

3. Park-street, a street, avenue, boulevard or
other highway, under the jurisdiction of the park
department ;

4. Permit, a written authorization for the ex-
ercise of a specified park privilege, issued by the
park commissioner having jurisdiction.

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$2. Interfering with lands or improvements
thereon. No person shall modify, alter or in any
manner interfere with the line or grades of any
park or park-street, nor take up, move or disturb
any curb, gutter stone, flagging, tree, treebox, rail-
ing, fence, sod, soil or gravel thereof, except by
direction of the commissioner or under his per-
mit.

§3. Sub-surface disturbances. No person shall
open, expose or interfere with any water or gas
pipe, hydrant, stopcock, sewer, basin or other con-
struction, within or upon any park or park-street.
nor make any connection therewith, except under
the authority of a permit, and upon the deposit
of such sum of money as may be required by the
commissioner to insure the restoration of the
soil, sod, plants, shrubs, trees, sidewalk, pavement,
curb, gutter and flagging disturbed in the making
of such connection. :

§4. Overhead wires. No person shall attach or
string any electric or other wire, or adjust or
carry the same into or over any park or park-
street, except under a permit.

§5. Destruction of or injury to park property.
No person shall cut, break or in any way injure
or deface any tree, shrub, plant, grass, post, rail-
ing, chain, lamp, lamp-post, bench, tree-guard,
building, structure or other property in, or upon
any park or park-street.

$6. Preservation of lawns and grass plots. No
person unless he shall hold a special permit
therefor or unless a special permit therefor shall
~ have been issued to a group of which he is a mém-

ber shall go upon any lawn or grassplot in any
park or parkway except when permission therefor
shall have been given to the public by the commis-
sioner. ,

$7. Bringing trees, plants and flowers into
parks. No person shall bring into or carry within
a park any tree, shrub, plant or flower, or newly
plucked part thereof, without a permit.

§8. Use roller skates upon any sidewalk, bridle
path or driveway, nor in any building or place of
public assembly, except upon such walks and dur-
ing such hours as may be designated by the com-
missioner.

§9. Rubbish and refuse matter. No person
shall throw, cast or lay, or direct, suffer or permit
any servant, agent, employee or person in his or
her charge, to throw, cast or lay, any ashes, offal,
vegetables, garbage, dross, cinders, shells, straw,
shavings, paper, dirt, filth or rubbish of any kind
whatsoever in any park, or in any lake, lawn, path,
walk, road or drive thereof, or in any park-street ;
provided that in the morning before 8 o’clock, or
before the first sweeping of the roadway of any
park-street by the street cleaners, dust from the
sidewalk may be swept into the gutter, if there
piled, but not otherwise.

§10. Processions; drills; music. No parade,
drill or manoeuver of any kind shall be conducted,
nor shall any person play upon a musical instru-
ment or display any flag, banner, target, sign,
placard or transparency in any park, nor shall any
civic or other procession form or move therein,
without a permit; but no such permit shall be

necessary for the use of the parade ground in
Van Cortlandt Park, borough of the Bronx, and
the parade ground adjacent to Prospect Park,
borough of Brooklyn, by organizations of the Na-
tional Guard of the State of New York.

S11. Public meetings. No person shall erect
any structure, stand or platform, or hold any meet-
ing, or perform any ceremony or make a speech,
address or harangue in any park without a per-
mit from the commissioner having jurisdictfon.

§12. Permits for sales, exhibitions, ete. No
person shall exhibit, sell, or offer for sale anything
whatsoever, or take any photograph, or perform
any personal service for hire in any park or park-
way, or in any street, square, or public place under
the jurisdiction of the department of parks ex-
cept under a permit from the commissioner of
parks of the borough in which such park or park-
way, street, square, or public place is situated or
otherwise than in accordance with the terms of
such permit, provided, however, that the provi-
sions of this section shall not apply to public hack
stands maintained in streets adjacent to public
parks, pursuant to section 99, article 8, chapter 14
of the Code of Ordinances.

$13. Posting bills or placards; distributing
cards, circulars or pamphlets. No person shall
post any bill, placard, notice or other paper upon
any structure, tree, rock, article or thing within
any park or upon any park-street, nor paint or
affix thereon, in any other way, any advertisement,
notice or exhortation, except under a permit and

in strict conformity therewith. No person shall
distribute, hand out or cast about any card, cir-
cular, pamphlet or other printed matter within
any park or upon any park-street.

§14. Bathing, fishing, boating and skating.
No person shall bathe in, nor disturb in any way
the fish in, the waters or fountains of any park,
nor cast any substance therein; except, that in
the waters adjacent to Pelham Bay Park bathing
and fishing shall be permitted, subject to the.
rules and regulations prescribed by the commis-
sioner. Fishing may also be allowed in the lakes
of Prospect Park and Kissena Park, under per-
mits. No person shall be permitted to appear in
bathing costume in any park or parkway, except
on the beaches in Pelham Bay, Seaside, Dream-
land, Jacob Riis and Rockaway Parks. No boat or
vessel shall be placed upon any of the waters of
any park, except by special permit. No skating
or sledding shall be allowed on any park lakes, un-
less and until the ice is declared to be in a suitable
condition by the commissioner.

§15. Protection of animals, birds and reptiles.
No person shall hunt, chase, shoot, trap, discharge
or throw missiles at, or molest or disturb in any
way, any animal, bird or reptile in any park.

§15-A. Baseball and other games. No person
shall throw, cast, catch, kick or strike with any
implement whatever, any baseball, golf ball, foot- ©
ball, basket ball, bean bag, or other object in or
upon any park or parkway, or any square, circle,
concourse, playground, street, avenue, boulevard or

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other highway under the jurisdiction of the park
department, or on any recreation pier, without a
permit therefor issued by the commissioner or
his supervisor of recreation nor otherwise than
in accordance with the terms of such permit.

§16. Animals at large. No horse or other ani-
mal shall be allowed to go at large in any park or
upon any park-street, except dogs that are re-
strained by a chain or leash not exceeding 6 feet
in length. nae

$17. Disorderly conduct. No person shall, in
any park,

1. Use threatening, abusive or insulting lan-
guage ; :

2. Do any obscene or indecent act ;

3. Throw stones or other missiles;

4. Beg or publicly solicit subscriptions or con-
tributions ;

5. Tell fortunes;

6. Play games of chance, or use or operate any
gaming table or instrument;

7. Chmb upon any wall, fence, shelter, seat,
statute or other erection ;

8. Fire or carry any firearm, firecracker, tor-
pedo or fireworks ;

9. Make a fire;

10. Enter or leave except at the established en-
trance-ways ;

11. Enter any park for the purpose of loiter-
ing and remaining therein after 12 o’clock at
night, except as, on special occasions, the occupa-
tion and use thereof may be authorized beyond
the regular hours;

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12. Do any act tending to a breach of the
public peace.

13. Bring into any park a_ beverage con-
taining alcohol, except for delivery to a restaurant
therein, duly licensed by the State Excise Depart-
ment, with the permission of the commissioner of
parks having jurisdiction, or consume publicly,
except within the premises of a restaurant, duly
licensed as aforesaid, any beverage ‘containing alco-
hol.

All persons doing any act injurious to a park
shall be removed therefrom by the park keepers
or by the police. When necessary to the protec-
tion of life or property, the officers and keepers of
the park may remove all persons from any desig-
nated part thereof.

§18. No parent, guardian or custodian of a
minor shall permit or allow such minor to do
any act prohibited by any provision of this chap-
ter

ARTICLE 2.
TrRarric REGULATIONS.

Section 30. Use of drives and bridle paths.
31. Vehicles obstructing assemblies.
32. Towing vehicles.
30. Restrictions on certain vehicles.
34. Public hacks, cabs and automobiles.
35. Carriers of offensive refuse or heavy
materials.
36. Smoky motor vehicles.
Park-streets.
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38. Harlem River driveway.

39. Ocean Boulevard, Bay Parkway,
Eastern Parkway and the Brook-
lyn-Queens Speedway.

40. Bicyclists.

41. Coney Island cycle paths.

42. Instruction in driving motor vehicles
or bicycles.

§30. Use of drives and bridle paths. In all
parks and parkways, the drives shall be used only
by persons in pleasure vehicles, on bicycles or on
horseback; the bridle paths only by persons on
horseback. Animals to be used on either shall be
well broken, and constantly held in such control
that they may be easily and quickly turned or
stopped. No person shall operate, drive or propel,
and no owner thereof riding thereon or therein
shall cause or permit to be operated, driven or
propelled, on any park drive, parkway or park
street, any bicycle, tricycle, velocipede, motor-cycle,
motor-tricycle, motor delivery wagon, or motor ve-
hicle, however propelled, or any vehicle drawn by
horses or other animals, recklessly or negligently,
or at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger, or
to be likely to endanger, the life or limb or prop-
erty of any person. A rate of speed exceeding 15
miles per hour shall constitute prima facie evi-
dence of a prohibited rate of speed and manner of
driving, and a violation of the provisions of this
section; a rate of speed exceeding 20 miles per
hour shall constitute a prohibited rate of speed
and manner of driving, and a violation of the

provisions of this section; and a rate of speed ex-
ceeding 25 miles per hour, on parkways in the
outlying sections of the parks of the boroughs of
The Bronx, Richmond, and Queens, shall consti-
tute a prohibited rate of speed and manner of
driving, and a violation of the provisions of this
section. When an officer on duty shall direct, by
gesture or otherwise, that the speed of an animal
or vehicle shall be checked, or that it shall be
stopped, or its course altered, such direction shall
be immediately obeyed. No horse or other beast
of burden, nor any automobile, shall be driven or
suffered to stand anywhere except on the drive or
bridle path. On all driveways and parkways where
grass plots divide the way, all vehicles and horse-
men must keep on the right hand drive or bridle
ath.

: §31. Vehicles obstructing assemblies. No own-
er or operator of a motor-cycle, automobile or
horse-drawn vehicle shall stop near any of the
music stands or other places, in or about a park,
parkway, plaza, concourse, circle or square, where
any considerable number of persons are accustomed
to congregate, or where such motor-cycles, auto-
mobiles or vehicles would be a source of danger to ©
life and limb, except by permission of the com-
missioner.

§32. Towing vehicles. No vehicle of any kind,
in tow of another vehicle or machine, shall be
allowed to enter any park or to proceed along any
parkway, but, in case of break-down within a
park or parkway, the disabled vehicle may be
towed to the nearest point of exit.

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§33. Restrictions on certain vehicles. 1.
Hearses. No hearse, or other vehicle or person
carrying the body of a dead person, shall enter or
be allowed in any part of a park, except by permit.

2. Public carriers. No public omnibus or ex-
press wagon, and no wagon, cart or other vehicle,
carrying or ordinarily used to carry merchandise,
goods, tools or rubbish shall enter such public
parks, parkways, squares or places except upon
traffic roads provided for the ad ale without a
permit.

3. Fire apparatus.. No fire engine or other
apparatus on wheels for extinguishing fire shall
enter or be allowed upon any part of the park,
except the transverse and traffic roads.

$34. Public hacks, cabs and automobiles. 1.
Special permits. No automobile, stage or other
vehicle shall be allowed to carry passengers for
hire over or upon any park or parkways, except
upon traffic roads, without a permit.

2. Awaiting fares. No vehicle for hire shall
stand within a park, parkway or park-street for
the purpose of taking up passengers, other than
these whom it has brought in, without a permit.

3. Soliciting passengers. All drivers or at-
t' idants of vehicles for hire, standing upon or
w.thin any park, parkway or park-street, shall re-
main in close proximity to their vehicles while so
standing, and no person shall :n any way solicit a
passenger for any vehicle for hire in any park,
parkway or park-street.

§35. Carriers of offensive refuse or heavy ma-
terials. No garbage, ashes, manure or other offen-

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sive material shall be carried over any parkway
or through any park, except upon traffic roads set
apart for the purpose. When such refuse is to
be removed from residences fronting on any park
or park-street, the vehicle collecting the same must
leave the park or street as soon as the collection
has been accomplished, and within the time pre-
scribed by the commissioner. No earth, sand or
broken stone shall be carried over any parkway
except on traffic roads, without a permit.

$36. Smoky motor vehicles. No person shall
be permitted to run a motor vehicle which emits
offensive quantities of smoke or gas or disagree-
able odors from its exhaust, or muffler, in a park
or park-street.

$37. Park-streets. 1. General. No animal or
vehicle shall be permitted to stand, nor shall any
incumbrance of any kind be allowed to remain
upon any street adjacent to or bounding upon any
park, without a permit; except that vehicles may
be permitted to take up and set down passengers,
and to load and unload merchandise in the usual
manner, and may occupy the street a reasonable
time for the purpose; provided, however, that
they shall not, while so doing, unnecessarily in-
cumber the street or obstruct travel therein.

2. Special. The delivery of supplies to the
residences on Riverside Drive and Morningside
Avenue, West, in Manhattan, and the Shore Road
in Brooklyn, will be permitted in the forenoon,
but no business vehicles shall enter upon or pass
over said parkways after the hour of noon, except

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by special permit. In passing over any of said
streets, business vehicles must go directly to the
place of delivery and must leave such street with-
out unnecessary delay, and by the shortest route—
the place of entry, if possible. The park-streets
specified in this sub-division must not be used to
enable business vehicles to reach places exterior to
such streets.

§38. Harlem River driveway. 1. Speedway
restricted. The use of the Speedway is restricted
to horse drawn pleasure vehicles and to light
vehicles of the classes known as buggies, runabouts,
surreys and other like vehicles adapted to the
speeding of light harness horses, seating not more
than four persons and drawn by one or two horses,
except by permit. Exercising carts may be used
until 1 p. m. only.

2. Speeding, on Sundays and holidays, and
after 3 o'clock p. m. on other days, will be per-
mitted in one direction—from north to south
only.

3. Ordinary travel. When not speeding, driv-
ers must keep closely to the right hand side of
the road and keep moving.

4. Turning forbidden, except at the ends of
the driveway and at the bridges.

5. Loud shouting, to make horses break or urge
them on, is strictly prohibited.

~6. Hobbles. The use of hobbles, or other sim-
ilar device or apparatus to fetter or connect the
legs of horses, for the purpose of restricting or
hampering their motion or gait, is forbidden.

7. Crossing roadway. Pedestrians must not

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eross on the Speedway ; subways are provided for
that purpose.

§39. Ocean Boulevard, Bay Parkway, Eastern
Parkway and the Speedway in Brooklyn and
Queens. 1: Business vehicles. Wagons, trucks
and other business vehicles, heavy or light, are
prohibited from using the main drive of the
Ocean Parkway and from using the Bay Parkway
between 80th Street and Gravesend Bay, and must
use the west road at all times, and they must
use the block pavement, at either side of the main
road or the traffic roads of the Hastern Parkway.

1-A. It shall be unlawful to drive any vehicle
over the easterly side road or bridle road of the
Ocean Parkway, between Prospect Park and the
Coney Island Concourse, except as it may be nec-
essary to cart or convey supplies to the residences
along said easterly side road, or in case of build-
ings being erected fronting on said side road, when
it shall be lawful to cart building materials there-
on. In all cases, however, vehicles must enter
said road from the street nearest to said residence
or house in course of construction, and must leave
the same at the next following intersecting street.

2. Automobiles. Automobiles will not be per-
mitted on the Speedway, between Bay Parkway
and King’s Highway, on Wednesday afternoons
between 1 and 6 p. m. During these hours, on
Wednesday, automobiles must take the west road. |
Vehicles of all other kinds except those for light
harness driving shall be excluded from the Speed-
way during the hours herein specified.

3. Speeding. Light harness driving on the

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Speedway (Ocean Parkway, between Bay Park-
way and King’s Highway) shall not be restricted
as to speed, on Wednesdays, between the hours of
1 and 6 p. m.; speeding, however, is only to be
permitted from Bay Parkway toward Coney
Island, and drivers shall be compelled to observe
the rules of the road. .

4. No person shall operate an automobile on
that part of the Eastchester Bay Shore Road, be-
ginning at the northerly approach to the bridge
over Eastchester Bay at its junction with the
Hastern Boulevard, and running thence easterly
and then northerly, following a winding course,
approximately parallel to the shore line of East-
chester Bay for a distance of approximately 4,450
feet to a point on the City Island Road, 125 feet
west_of Glover’s Rock, nor upon that portion of
the Shore Road known familiarly as the Orchard
Beach Shore Road, beginning at a point on the
City Island Road 435 feet east of Glover’s Rock,
running thence in a winding course approximately
parallel to the shore line of Pelham Bay, through
the camp reservation at Orchard Beach, and for
a distance approximately 4,800: feet to the City
Island Road where it joins the westerly approach
to the City Island Bridge.

§40. Bicyclists. No person shall ride a bi-
cycle upon the foot-paths in any park or park-
ways. Bicyclists walking upon a foot-path may
_ push their wheels along the path, but in no case
shall the machine be taken upon the turf.

§41. Coney Island cycle-paths. 1. Reserved

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for cyclists. Horses, wagons, carriages, automo-
biles and pedestrians must not use bicycle paths.

2. Going and returning. Cyclists must use the
west path when going toward Conev Island, and
the east path in returning.

3. Speed limit. Cyclists and motor cyclists
must not exceed a speed of eighteen miles an hour
on the bicycle paths. Racing on the bicycle paths
is prohibited, except by special permission of the
commissioner.

§42. Instruction in driving motor vehicles or
bicycles. Instruction in operating automobiles, -
motor cycles, bicycles, tricycles, velocipedes or
other vehicles of propulsion, is prohibited in parks
and parkways at all times.

ARTICLE 3.

PROJECTIONS UPON Parks, PARKWAyYS OR PARK- —
STREETS.

Section 60. General provisions.
61. Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.
62. Riverside Drive.

§60. General provisions. 1. Jurisdiction.
Each commissioner may grant permits for the
erection and maintenance of projections on any
park or parkway, within his jurisdiction, and on
all streets and avenues within a distance of 350
feet from the outer boundaries thereof, upon such
terms and conditions and upon the making of
such compensation to the city as in his discretion

he may determine, with respect to the particular
locality.

2. Correction of defects. Where permits have
heretofore been granted upon the making of com-
pensation and a new permit is desired to correct
any irregularity, defect or supposed want of jur-
isdiction in the granting of such permit, a new
permit may be granted without further compen-
sation. . .

3. Curb and surface construction. Each com-
missioner may determine the line of curb and the
surface constructions of all streets and avenues,
lying within any park or parkway, in his jurisdic-
tion, or within a distance of 350 feet from the
outer boundaries thereof, as he may deem advis-
able, according to the particular locality, and best
calculated to maintain the beauty and utility of
such park or parkway.

4. House projections. All applications for the
_ privilege of erecting bay windows or other house
projections shall be made to the commissioner in
whose administrative jurisdiction the park or park-
way affected lies, who may, in his discretion, grant
the same, upon payment of a fee to be determined
_ in each case by him. .Working plans in duplicate,
drawn to a scale of one-quarter inch to the foot,
shall be required to accompany each application,
showing the elevation, plans and vertical sections
of extent of projection, one copy of which shall
be filed in the office of the commissioner, and an-
other shall be returned to the applicant, for filing’
in the appropriate bureau of buildings, upon the
- approval of the commissioner. No permit will
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be granted to cover more’ than 4 feet of projection
beyond the house or building line, nor shall the
projections occupy, longitudinally with the street
or avenue, more than two-thirds of the width -of
the building from which they project.

§61. Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. 1. Owners
of property on the easterly side of Fifth Avenue,
between 58th and 111th Streets, in the borough of
Manhattan, are permitted to inclose, for court-
yard purposes, and not otherwise, 15 feet of the
sidewalks adjacent to and in front of their re-
spective lots; and the stoops of buildings erected
on said avenue may, in such cases, project to the
extent of such courtyards; provided,

1. ‘That such stoops shall, in every instance, be
open above the railing or balustrade thereof ;

2. That the form, size and character thereof,
together with the form, size and character of the
area railings, shall be subject to the approval of
the commissioner ;

3. That no stoop or area railing shall be con-
structed or put upon Fifth Avenue, or upon any
of the streets or avenues surrounding Central
Park, within the boundaries first above mentioned,
until the plan thereof has been submitted-to and
approved by the said commissioner.

$62. Riverside Drive. 1. General provisions.
No structure or construction of any description,
nor any part thereof, shall be placed or permitted
on or under Riverside Drive until working plans
in duplicate, drawn to a scale 14 inch to the
. foot, shall have been filed with the Department of
Parks, with an application for the erection or con-

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struction of the structure; said drawings to show
elevations, floor plans and vertical sections of
the extent of projections, and that the applicant
has received permission to erect the said projection,
as shown on drawings from the department.

2. Areas, courtyards, steps or stoops. No area,
courtyard, step or stoop or any part or appurte-
nance thereof, shall project into the drive, beyond
the building line, to the extent of more than 5
feet where the sidewalk is 16 feet wide; 7 feet,
where the sidewalk is 20 feet wide; 8 feet, where
the sidewalk is 25 feet wide, and in proportion
to the above, where the sidewalk is between 16
and 20 feet or between 20 and 25. No stoop or
steps shall be covered, except over the landing or
platform at the top, nor shall they be inclosed
except by an open railing, not more than 4 feet
in height.

3. Bay windows. Bay windows shall not pro-
ject in the drive, beyond the building line, to the
extent of more than 4 feet, and, when allowed to
project into the drive, they shall not occupy, longi-
tudinally with the drive, more than two-thirds of
the width of the building from which they project.

4. Balconies, cornices and ornaments. No bal-
cony, cornice or ornament shall project into the
drive, beyond the house line, to the extent of more
than 4 feet, nor shall any balcony be inclosed on
the front side, except by a railing not over 4 feet
in height.

5. Sub-surface construction. No vault or other
construction below the sidewalk shall be built
except in such manner as shall leave the sewers,

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gas and water pipes, or space proposed to be oc-
cupied by the same, free and uninclosed and in
safe condition, nor in any case to extend in the
clear beyond the curb line.

863. Ocean Parkway. 1. Veranda, porch,
piazza or portico projections beyond courtyard
restriction line. All applications for projections
of verandas, porches, piazzas, etc., beyond the -
thirty (30) foot restriction line of Ocean Park-
way shall be accompanied by blue prints of plan
of proposed projection, drawn to a scale of one-
quarter (14) of an inch to the foot, showing re-
striction line, lot lines, plan and section or plan
and elevation of projection. The projection shall
not exceed fifteen (15) feet beyond the restriction
line at any point, and shall be of open construction,
with roof supported by columns or piers.

$64. Restricted areas on Ocean Parkway, East-
ern Parkway and Plaza Street. The restricted
areas on these parkways shall be reserved strictly
for the purposes set forth in the respective laws -
governing same and shall not be used temporarily
or permanently for any of the following purposes :
advertising signs, contractors’ tool houses or shan-
ties, disposal of garbage, refuse, rubbish or other
waste materials, dumping ground for filling ma-
terial, garage buildings, news-stands, gasoline sta-
tions, moving picture houses or purveying stands.
No use or occupancy of any nature whatsoever
shall be made of these restricted areas without a
permit having been previously secured from the
commissioner of parks having jurisdiction.

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ARTICLE 4,
MISCELLANEOUS.

Section 70. Trees and shrubs in streets.
71. New York Botanical Garden.

§70. Trees and shrubs in streets. 1. Plant-
ing. No shade or ornamental tree, or shrub, shall
be planted in any street until a permit has been
granted by the commissioner having jurisdiction.
No hole or excavation shall be prepared for plant-
ing any tree or shrub, unless sufficient mould
of satisfactory quality shall be used, and the con-
ditions, such as the absence of poisonous gas and
deleterious substances, have been made satisfac-
tory.

2. Cutting, breaking or disturbing. No stem,
branch or leaf of any such tree or shrub shall be
eut, broken or otherwise disturbed, nor shall the
root of any such tree or shrub be disturbed or
interfered with in any way, by any individual or
any officer or employee of a public or private cor-
poration, until a permit shall have been issued
therefor. The surface of the ground within 3
feet of any such tree or shrub, shall not be culti-
vated, fertilized, paved or given any treatment
whatever, except under a permit.

3. Misuse. No person shall cut, deface, mutil-
ate or in any way misuse any such tree or shrub.
nor shall any horse or other animal be permitted
to stand in a manner or position where it may cut.
deface or mutilate the same. No building mate-

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rial, or other material or debris of any kind, shall
be piled or maintained against any tree or shrub.
No guy rope, cable or other contrivance shall be
attached to any tree or shrub, nor shall any tree
or shrub be used in connection with any banner,
transparency or any business purpose whatever,
except under a permit.

§71. New York Botanical Garden. All pro-
visions of this chapter, respecting the government
of parks, shall be applicable to the New York
Botanical Garden; provided, that in any case in
which the commissioner is authorized to issue a
permit for the exercise of a park privilege, the
permit, if authorizing the exercise of such a priv-
ilege in the New York Botanical Garden shall be
recommended or approved by the Director-in-Chief
of the Garden.

REGULATIONS OF Bronx ZOOLOGICAL PARK.
Admission.

1. The Zoological Park will be open to the
public every day in the year. From April 15th
to October 15th, the gates will be open at 9 a. m.,
and from October 16th to April 14th at 10 a. m.
The park will be closed to incoming visitors, half
an hour before sunset throughout the year.

2. On Mondays and Thursdays, except when
either of those days fall on a legal holiday, all
persons who are not members of the Zoological
Society, or are not provided with member’s tickets,
shall pay for each adult 25 cents admission, and

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for each child over five and under 12 years, 15
- cents admission.

3. All visitors must leave the park not later
than sunset; and visitors found in the park after
sunset will be liable to arrest as suspicious or dis-
orderly persons.

4. No dogs shall be allowed in the park
whether in leash or carried in arms; but this rule
shall not apply to dogs which are kept contin-
uously confined in automobiles or carriages while
in the park.

5. No cameras or other photographic appar-
atus will be allowed in the Zoological Park, except
upon written permit from the Society. Such per-
mits may be issued to animal painters and sculp-
tors, and to reporters regularly employed by news-
papers, under proper rules and.restrictions. No
such permits will be granted under any circum-
stances for use on Sundays or public holidays.

Vehicles in the park.

6. No vehicles except service wagons, carts and
coal trucks will be allowed on any walk, roadway
or public space in the Zoological Park other than
the Service Road, and only on the Service Road
when driven slowly. ‘The carriages and auto-
mobiles of visitors shall be restricted to the Con-
course Entrance, and the Concourse itself. This
rule will be strictly enforced, and, if necessary,
those violating it will be arrested for disorderly
conduct.

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7. All wagons, carts and automobiles deliver-
ing supplies must enter at the Service Entrance,
on the Southern Boulevard, at 185th Street.

Conduct.

8. No disorderly or intoxicated persons will
be allowed within the Zoological Park under any
circumstances. ‘The use of abusive or insulting
language to any of the employees of the Park shall
be sufficient cause for the expulsion from the Park
of the offender, or arrest for disorderly conduct.
This rule will be strictly observed as the employees
of the Society are under strict orders to act courte-
ously towards the public.

9. All visitors are strictly forbidden to feed
any animals in the Zoological Park, except the
wild squirrels; or to throw anything whatsoever
into, any animal cage or enclosure, to tease, annoy,
molest, frighten, to cause injury in any manner to
any animal or bird in the Zoological Park, whether
confined or otherwise.

10. All visitors and all members of the Zoolog-
ical Park force are strictly forbidden to bring in-
toxicating liquors, including beer, into the Zoologi-
cal Park, or to sell, or otherwise dispose of, such
liquors in the Park. This prohibition shall not
apply to cordials and spirits that may be ordered
by the medical officer of the Zoological Park staff
for strictly medicinal purposes.

11. It is strictly forbidden to bring unshelled
peanuts into the Zoological Park, or to throw -
peanut shells upon any walk or lawn.

12. It is strictly forbidden to throw or de-
posit any waste paper, nut shells, fruit refuse,
luncheon boxes, newspapers or any rubbish of
any kind upon any walk, lawn, beach or ground in
the Zoological Park. All rubbish and refuse must
be deposited in the receptacles provided to receive
1%.

13. Visitors are strictly forbidden to climb
over guard rails, fences, or guard wires, to enter
places not open to visitors, or in any manner ex-
pose themselves to personal danger in the Zoologi-
cal Park.

14. No one shall cut, pluck, break, remove or
in any manner injure any of the trees, shrubs,
plants and flowers of the Zoological Park, nor
remove any soil, nor dump any refuse on Park
Grounds. |

15. Fishing in any of the ponds, lakes and
water courses of the Zoological Park, and col-
lecting living animals of any kind, vertebrate or
invertebrate or botanical specimens, are pro-
hibited.

16. Roller skating and ball playing in the Zoo-
logical Park are forbidden.

17. Skating on Bronx Lake is at all times
forbidden, except when the Zoological Park safety
signal is displayed.

18. All persons using rowboats are forbidden.
to stand up while boating, to pass each other
standing up, or purposely to rock any boat.

19. Hawking and peddling in the vicinity of
any of the Zoological Park entrances along the
Boston Road, or anywhere on the grounds, or

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along the boundaries of the Zoological Park, fenced
or untenced, is strictly forbidden.

20. No poles shall be erected for the purpose of
carrying overhead wires for the transmission of
electric current, upon any street or road passing
through the Zoological Park.

Lost and Found.

21. All lost articles or lost children shall
be taken without delay to the office of the Chief
Clerk, and for all “found” articles that are turned
in receipts will be furnished by the Chief Clerk.

Penalty.

22. Any person who violates any of the above
rules will be lable to arrest, fine, and imprison-
ment.

All ordinances or parts of ordinances heretofore
adopted affecting the parks, parkways and public
places of The City of New York under the juris-
diction of the Department of Parks inconsistent
with or in conflict with the ordinances above set
forth are hereby repealed.

CABOT WARD, President,
THOMAS W. WHITTLE,
RAYMOND V. INGERSOLL,
JOHN E. WEIER,
Commissioners of Parks of The City of New York.
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I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of
the Ordinances, Rules and Regulations of the De-
partment of Parks of The City of New York, as
duly established and now in force.

LOUIS W. FEHR,

Secretary, Park Board.
November 20, 1916.

PENALTY:

Section 610 of the Charter provides:

“Any person violating any ordinances re-
lating to the parks or other property men-
tioned in this section shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall on conviction before a
City Magistrate, be punished by a fine not
exceeding fifty dollars, or in default of pay-
ment of such fine by imprisonment not ex-
ceeding thirty days.”

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