Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 16514 - Park to be under regulations specified and such others as may be establishedThe said park shall be under the following rules and regulations, and such others as the park commissioners may from time to time ordain:
1. No person shall turn cattle, goats, swine, horses, or other animals, loose into the park.2. No person shall carry fire-arms, or shoot birds, in the park, or within fifty yards thereof, or throw stones or other missiles therein.3. No one shall cut, break, or in anywise injure or deface the trees, shrubs, plants, turf, or any of the buildings, fences, structures, or statuary, or foul any fountains or springs within the park.4. No person shall drive or ride therein at a rate exceeding seven miles an hour.5. No one shall ride or drive therein upon any other than upon the avenues and roads.6. No coach or vehicle, used for hire, shall stand upon any part of the park for the purpose of hire, nor except in waiting for persons taken by it into the park, unless in either case at points designated by the commission.7. No wagon, or vehicle of burden or traffic, shall pass through the park except upon such road or avenue as shall be designated by the park commissioners for burden transportation.8. No street railroad car shall come within the lines of the park without the license of the park commission.9. No person shall expose any article for sale within the park without the previous license of the park commission.10. No person shall take ice from the Schuylkill within the park without the license of the said commission first had, upon such terms as they may think proper.11. No threatening, abusive, insulting or indecent language shall be allowed in the park.12. No gaming shall be allowed therein, nor any obscene or indecent act therein.13. No person shall go in to bathe within the park.14. No person shall fish, or disturb the water-fowl in the pool, or any pond, or birds in any part of the park, nor discharge any fireworks therein, nor affix any bills or notices therein.15. No person shall have any musical, theatrical or other entertainment therein without the license of the park commissioners.16. No person shall enter or leave the park except by such gates or avenues as may be for such purposes arranged.17. No gathering or meeting of any kind, assembled through advertisements, shall be permitted in the park without the previous permission of the commission; nor shall any gathering or meeting for political purposes in the park be permitted under any circumstances.18. No intoxicating liquors shall be allowed to be sold within said park.1868, April 14, P.L. 1083, § 21.