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<br />STREETS, PARKS AND OTHER PUBLIC PROPERTY § 3.08.210
<br />CHAPTER 3.08. PARKS AND ascribed to them in this section, except where
<br />RECREATION* the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
<br />ARTICLE I. IN GENERAL (RESERVED)
<br />ARTICLE II. PARK COMMISSION
<br />Sec. 3.08.110. Established.
<br />A park commission is established.
<br />(Code 1984, § 2.52(1); Code 2003, § 22-31; Ord.
<br />No. 112(2nd series), § 1, 1-11-1993)
<br />Sec. 3.08.120. Members.
<br />The park commission is composed of seven
<br />members, who serve staggered three-year terms.
<br />The council may by majority vote appoint one or
<br />more alternate park commission members to
<br />serve when regular members are absent. One
<br />staff member and one councilmember shall be
<br />members of the commission ex officio and without
<br />vote and are in addition to the seven -member
<br />commission.
<br />(Code 1984, § 2.52(1); Code 2003, § 22-32; Ord.
<br />No. 112(2nd series), § 1, 1-11-1993; Ord. No.
<br />180(3rd series), § 1, 1-9-2017)
<br />Sec. 3.08.130. Powers and duties.
<br />The park commission shall be only an advisory
<br />body to the council. The commission shall study
<br />and consider the continuing needs of the city for
<br />parks and recreation areas and facilities of all
<br />kinds, including, but not limited to, problems
<br />involving public use of Lake Minnetonka and
<br />other lakes in the city, and portions of its
<br />shorelines. The commission shall report to the
<br />council.
<br />(Code 1984, § 2.52(2); Code 2003, § 22-33)
<br />ARTICLE III. PUBLIC CONDUCT IN PARKS
<br />AND PUBLIC SWIMMING AREAS
<br />Sec. 3.08.210. Definitions.
<br />The following words, terms and phrases, when
<br />used in this article, shall have the meanings
<br />*State law reference —General authority relative to
<br />parks, Minn. Stats. § 412.491.
<br />Animal means all animals, reptiles and fowls
<br />of every kind and description, whether
<br />domesticated or such as may be tame, but are of
<br />a species commonly found in wild habitat, but
<br />excluding domesticated dogs and cats.
<br />Fighting words means an expression likely to
<br />provoke the average person to retaliation and
<br />thereby cause a breach of the peace.
<br />Motorized vehicle means any self-propelled
<br />vehicle equipped with a unit for its propulsion by
<br />means of energy stored on the vehicle, including
<br />a vehicle designed to be propelled by means of
<br />such energy alternatively or in combination with
<br />human power, and includes vehicles designed to
<br />be drawn by self-propelled vehicles, but excludes
<br />such vehicles designed exclusively for operation
<br />on metal tracks.
<br />Nudity means uncovered, or less than opaquely
<br />covered, post -pubertal human genitals, pubic
<br />areas, the post -pubertal human female breast
<br />below a point immediately above the top of the
<br />areola, or the covered human male genitals in a
<br />discernibly turgid state. For purposes of this
<br />definition, a female breast is considered uncovered
<br />if the nipple only or the nipple and the areola
<br />only are covered.
<br />Obscenities means an expression that, taken
<br />as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest in
<br />sex and depicts or describes in a patently offensive
<br />manner sexual conduct and which, taken as a
<br />whole, does not have serious literary, artistic,
<br />political, or scientific value.
<br />Park means an area reserved, designated or
<br />used for active or passive public recreation,
<br />except a swimming beach, that is owned, oper-
<br />ated or controlled by the city.
<br />Sexual conduct means human masturbation,
<br />sexual intercourse, or any touching of the genitals,
<br />pubic areas or buttocks of the human male or
<br />female, or the breasts of the female, whether
<br />alone or between members of the same or opposite
<br />sex or between humans and animals in an act of
<br />apparent sexual stimulation or gratification.
<br />CD3:31
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