§ 2.4.4. Powers and duties of Department of Parks and Recreation.

The following duties and powers are hereby vested in the Department of Parks and Recreation.

(A)

Park and other recreational facilities. Management, operation and control of all facilities, either within or without the territorial limits of the City and County, owned by the City and County for park and recreational purposes, including the right to make reasonable charges, subject to ordinance approval, for the use of any special facility or activity and management and control of the operation, care, repair and maintenance of all structures in which and all land on which those facilities are located and operated. At the request of the Department, Council shall provide, by ordinance, for the enforcement of the rules and regulations of the Department.

(B)

Building line restrictions around parks and parkways. To establish a building line or lines, determining the distance at which all structures may be erected upon any private premises fronting any park or parkway and, in the name of the City and County, to prevent the erection and require the removal of all structures outside said lines. No permit shall be issued authorizing the erection of any structure outside the building line so established.

(C)

Licenses, privileges and concessions. In the manner and pursuant to terms and conditions fixed by the Mayor's cabinet, to grant or refuse the license or privilege of operating concessions in or of selling goods and services in all parks and recreational facilities and on the streets and sidewalks within three hundred feet of the boundary of any park or recreational facility.

(D)

Landscaping of public ways and thoroughfares. Landscaping and beautification, together with such horticultural maintenance as appears desirable in the public interest, of suitable portions of any public ways, thoroughfares, pleasure driveways and similar facilities as determined by agreement with the Department of Public Works.

(E)

Gifts. Management and control of all real or personal property, including all rents, issues and profits thereof, granted, bequeathed, devised or conveyed to the City and County for the purpose of the creation, improvement or ornamentation of any park, boulevard, pleasure way, parkway or recreational facility or for the establishment or maintenance therein of museums, zoological or other gardens, collections of natural history, observatories or recreational facilities; provided, however, that no such gifts shall be accepted without the prior approval of the Mayor and Council.

(F)

Cooperative agreements.

(i)

To conduct negotiations for cooperative agreements with School District No. 1 and other public and private agencies for the development of park and recreational facilities, programs and activities and for the establishment and maintenance of the museums, zoological or other gardens, collections of natural history and observatories. Such agreements may provide for such grants-in-aid or appropriations from the General Fund as may be made from time to time by Council, and the Manager, subject to approval by ordinance, may delegate his or her functions in connection with these matters.

(ii)

And the Council may place the public playgrounds under the supervision and control of the School Board of the City and County.

(Charter 1960, A4.4, C6.2; amended May 17, 1955. Paragraph (F)(ii) amended February 14, 1913; amended May 17, 1916; Ord. No. 428-02, § 1, 6-3-02, elec. 8-13-02 Ord. No. 407-13, § 2, 8-26-13, elec. 11-5-13)