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Effective Date: August 24, 2011
6/3/2011
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AN ORDINANCE
Amending Portions of the City Code
Relating to the Playground and Recreation Board,
Hereafter Called the "Park and Recreation Board"
NOW BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
SECTION 1: That Title 7, Chapter 9 of the Evanston City Code of 1979,
as amended ("City Code"), "Playground and Recreation Board," is hereby re -titled "Park
and Recreation Board" and further amended to read as follows:
7-9-1: ESTABLISHMENT:
• In accordance with 65 ILCS 5/11-95-2 and pursuant to its powers as a home rule unit of
government, the City of Evanston hereby establishes the Evanston Park and Recreation
Board.
7-9-2: APPOINTMENT AND COMPOSITION; TERM; COMPENSATION:
The Park and Recreation Board shall consist of nine (9) members who shall be
appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the City Council. Each member shall be
appointed for a term of five (5) years, except that the members of the Board first
appointed shall be appointed so that the term of one member shall expire annually
thereafter. If a vacancy occurs in the office of any Board member, the Mayor with the
approval of the City Council shall appoint a successor to serve for the unexpired term.
The Board members shall serve without compensation.
7-9-3: POWERS AND DUTIES:
The Park and Recreation Board shall possess the powers and perform the duties
prescribed by ILCS 5/11-95-1 et seq., as amended. Specifically, the Board shall:
(A) provide direction for the planning, design and maintenance of all playgrounds,
parks, recreational facilities, and open spaces owned and/or leased by the City of
Evanston; and
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(B) provide direction for the development, supervision, and operation of all •
recreational programs and activities operated by the City of Evanston and/or its
authorized affiliates.
7-9-4: RULES AND REGULATIONS:
(A) The Evanston Park and Recreation Board is hereby empowered to adopt
regulations, after making a written determination that the welfare of the parks or
the public requires such regulations, concerning the safe and proper use of
property and facilities used by the general public under the control of said Park
and Recreation Board.
(B) The Park and Recreation Board is hereby authorized and empowered to adopt
regulations pertaining to the use of the parks, beaches and water adjacent to
such parks and beaches, particularly the activities of fishing, waterskiing,
swimming, sledding, skiing, skating and all other lawful activities conducted upon
such premises, and the consumption of food and beverages, and the use of any
such facility in a manner contrary to its intended use or in such a manner as to
constitute a danger to any person using such facility. Said rules and regulations
shall not conflict with those regulations set forth in Chapters 10 and 11 of this
Title.
(C) Rules and regulations so adopted shall be transmitted in writing to the City
Council on a Monday, no less than twenty-one (21) days prior to their proposed •
effective date. The City Council may consider, reject or refer such proposed
regulations back to the Park and Recreation Board within such period. Failure so
to do within twenty-one (21) days shall be deemed an approval. No such rule or
regulation shall become effective until ten (10) days after it shall have been
published in the manner provided for ordinances, and notice of such regulation
shall have been posted in the area affected thereby.
(D) The Park and Recreation Board shall cause the posting of notice of regulations in
those areas in which such regulations are in force and effect.
(E) Every person who shall violate a properly adopted and posted regulation of the
Park and Recreation Board shall be guilty of an offense punishable by a fine in
an amount not to exceed seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00).
7-9-5: AUTHORITY TO ENFORCE:
The City Manager and his/her designees are authorized to enforce regulations of the
Evanston Park and Recreation Board promulgated and posted in accordance with the
provisions of this Chapter.
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• SECTION 2: That all references throughout the City Code to the
"Playground and Recreation Board" are hereby amended to refer to the "Park and
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Recreation Board."
SECTION 3: That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 4: That if any provision of this ordinance or application thereof
to any person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such
invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this ordinance that can be Z
given effect without the invalid application or provision, and each invalid application of
this ordinance is severable.
SECTION 5: That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after its passage, approval, and publication in the manner provided by law.
Introduced: -qu;Q,(- 6 , 2011
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Adopted: ff 9 , 2011
Attest:
R*ey C e e, City Clerk
Approved:
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Eli a eth B. Tisdahl, Mayor
Approved as to form:
W. Grant Farrar, Corporation Counsel
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