COMMISSIONERS' COURT AGENDA REQUEST
PLEASE FURNISH ONE ORIGINAL AND NINE COPIES OF THIS REQUEST
AND DOCUMENTS TO BE REVIEWED BY THE COURT.
MADE BY: William H. Williams OFFICE: Commissioner, Pct. 2
MEETING DATE: May 28, 2002 TIME PREFERRED:
SUBJECT: (Please be specific) Consider and discuss adoption of Rules and Regulations for use
of County-owned Parks, Dams, and Recreational Areas.
EXECUTIVE SESSION REQUESTED: (PLEASE STATE REASON)
NAME OF PERSON(S) ADDRESSING THE COURT: Bill Williams, Commissioner, Pct. 2.
ESTIMATED LENGTH OF PRESENTATION: 10 minutes.
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Time for submitting this request for Court to assure that the matter is posted in
accordance with Title 5, Chapter 551 and 552, Government Code, is as follows:
Meeting scheduled for Mondays: 5:00 P.M. previous Tuesday
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KERR COUNTY
RULES AND REGULATIONS
FOR PARK AND RECREATION AREAS
SECTION I. GENERAL AUTHORITY
The County of Kerr shall have and shall exercise the power to control all activities, hours
of visitation, and days and times of opening to the public all County Parks in order to
properly serve and protect the citizens of this community. The said Pazks shall be under
the direct supervision of the Facilities and Use Department and the Kerr County Sheriff.
The Facilities and Use Department is chazged with the responsibility of scheduling and
supervising the use of County Pazks in accordance with policy and procedures approved
by the Commissioners Court. These officials shall have the authority to delegate their
power of supervision to other employees of their respective departments. The Sheriffs
Department of Kerr County is chazged with the responsibility of maintaining law and
order in all of the County Pazks. To protect the peace, health, safety and general welfare
of the public. In order to carry out this provision, the Sheriffs Department, and any and
all officers therein, shall have the authority to make arrests for violation of any state law
or Kerr County Commissioners Court Order pertaining to these Rules and Regulations.
SECTION 2. APPROVAL AND SCHEDULING OF EVENTS
All Events must be approved and scheduled in advance by making application for such
use at the Facilities and Use Department. Events must conform to the permitted uses
described in the Kerr County Facilities Use Policy Manual. Special Events or activities
not permitted in the Kerr County Pazks and Recreation Department Policy Manual, must,
by application, be submitted to the Kerr County Commissioners Court for prior approval.
SECTION 3. CLOSING HOURS
All County Pazks, Dams, and Recreation azeas shall be open to the public daily during the
hours of 7:30 a.m and 10:00 p.m., except as provided hereafter. Pazks shall be closed to
the public from 10:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. Access to all boat ramps and the immediate azeas
adjacent thereto shall be open 24 hours per day for the purpose of launching and
retrieving boats. All azeas may from time to time be closed by orders of the
Commissioners' Court, through the Facilities and Use Department or Sheriff for the
purpose of rehabilitation, cleaning, general supervision, or to protect the health, safety
and general welfaze of the public. Requests prior to use, for any Pazk or Recreation
Areas during the hours they aze normally closed must be obtained by submitting an
application for approval to the Ken County Commissioners' Court.
It shall be unlawful for any person to enter or remain in a County Pazk, Dam, or
Recreation area during hours when they aze closed as set out above without prior
approval of the Kerr County Commissioners Court.
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For the purposes of this Section, "Kerr County Park and Recreation azeas" includes all
azeas of the same used for parking of vehicles. Such pazking azeas shall be defined as
County Roads and shall be supervised and regulated by the Sheriffs Department of Kerr
County as all county roads aze. Further, the prohibition in this Section includes
individuals who aze sitting inside their vehicles while pazked in any of the pazking areas.
SECTION 4. SAFETY
It shall be unlawful for any person to:
1. Act in any dangerous or unsafe manner in any Pazk, Dam, or Recreation
azea.
2. Use or ignite fireworks of any description in or from a County Pazk or
Dam.
SECTION 5. OVERNIGHT CAMPING, PARKING, ETC.
It shall be unlawful within any County owned Pazk, Dam, or Recreation azea to:
1. Camp overnight, or
2. Pazk any portable buflding, camping unit of any type, or motor vehicle
overnight without special permission, or
3. Allow use of any equipment or activity between the hours of 10:00 p.m.
and 7:30 a.m. each day; and
4. Fail to take notice the activity was forbidden or received notice to cease or
remove the violation and failed to do so. Notice shall be defined in
Section 3 above.
Exception to this Section shall only be granted by prior written approval of the Ken
County Commissioners' Court, through the Facilities and Use Department.
SECTION 6. VEHICLES
A. It shall be unlawful in a County Pazk or Recreation azea for any person to:
1. Drive any motor driven vehicle into, along or across any grassy azea
unless it is a public roadway maintained by Ken County for the operation
of such vehicles.
2. To drive upon any hike-bike trail, footpath or footbridge spanning a creek
or stream located therein.
3. Self-contained Recreational Vehicles that are part of an approved,
organized event may be allowed overnight in a Park during the event only
with prior written approval of Kerr County Commissioners Court
obtained through the Facilities and Use Department.
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This Section 6A shall not apply to powered golf carts, wheelchairs, or vehicles being
used strictly for the purpose of loading or unloading freight therein or in the construction,
maintenance or repair of said public Pazks or Recreation azeas which aze owned or
maintained by Kerr County or with the prior written approval of the Kerr County
Commissioners' Court, through the Facihties and Use Department.
B. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any vehicle on any street, drive,
roadway, or surface within any County Pazk or Recreations azea at a speed greater than
twenty (20) miles per hour.
C. No person shall park a vehicle upon any County-owned or maintained park lands,
or public recreation areas for the principal purpose of:
1. Displaying such vehicles for sale, or
2. Washing, greasing, or repairing such vehicles except repairs
necessitated by an emergency.
SECTION 7. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
It shall be unlawful in a Pazk, Dam, or Recreation area for any person to:
1. Pick, pull, pull up, tear up, dig up or out, mutilate, break, bruise,
injure, burn, remove, carry away, or destroy any tree, shrub, plant,
vine, flower, moss or vegetation, or portion thereof, including but not
limited to leaf, mold, foliage, berries, fruit, grass, turf, humus, cones,
dead or downed wood, except by prior written approval issued by the
Kerr County Commissioners' Court for scientific or educational
purposes, through the Facilities and Use Department.
2. Build ground fires except in designated fire rings, pits, or grills.
3. Climb trees.
4. Maintain noise and sound levels of groups, individuals, radios, or any
sound equipment at a level considered to be a nuisance as deemed by
Kerr County.
5. Engage in any commercial venture without the written permission of
the Kerr County Commissioners' Court, through the Facilities and Use
Department.
SECTION 8. LITTERING
It shall be unlawful for any person to:
I. Bring, use, carry or dispose of a glass container in any County Park,
Dam, or Recreation area.
2. Throw, deposit, place or drop loose paper, cans, bottles, sacks, boxes,
cloths, waste materials, or any kind of rubbish on or alongside any
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street, alley sidewalk, body of water, playground, or recreation azea of
County Pazk land within the County of Kerr.
SECTION 9. PETS
It shall be unlawful for any person to have any pet unleashed in a Ken County Park,
Dam, or Recreation Area.
SECTION 10. PENALTY
A violation of any of the provisions of Sections 3 through 7 herein shall be deemed a
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof a person shall be fined pursuant to the Texas
Penal Code and other applicable laws.
SECTION 11.
All other Orders or parts of Orders in conflict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent
that they are in conflict.
SECTION 12.
If any provision of this Kerr County Commissioners' Court Order shall be held void or
unconstitutional, all other parts which aze not held void or unconstitutional shall remain
in full force and effect.
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Backup Material for Ageuda Item
With summer approaching, and useage of County-owned facilities rising, it is
timely for Commissioners Court to discuss and adopt a set of Rules and Regulations
governing use and activity at or in Pazks, Dams, and Recreational Areas.
Kerr County Sheriff s Department has limited authority to stop unwanted
activities absent the adoption of Rules and Regulations.
There is considerable activity that disturbs the peace taking place at Center Point
Riverside Pazk of which the community complains. Enactment of Rules and Regulations
will enable Kerr County Law Enforcement personnel to have a basis upon which to
regulate this type of activity.