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BYLAW NO. 1573
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BYLAW NO. 1573 A Bylaw of Camrose County in the Province of Alberta for the
purpose of control and operation of County Parks.
WHEREAS
Pursuant to Section 7 of the Municipal Government Act RSA
2000, Chapter M26 and amendments thereto, Council may
pass a Bylaw for the safety, health and welfare of people and
the protection of people and property; people, activities and
things in, on or near a public place or place that is open to the
public; services provided by or on behalf of the municipality;
and wild and domestic animals and activities in relation to
them.
NOW THEREFORE Council of Camrose County in the Province of Alberta, duly
assembled, hereby enacts as follows:
1.
This Bylaw may be cited as "The Parks Control Bylaw".
2.
DEFINITIONS
2.1
"Public Park" means any public area within the jurisdiction of
Camrose County that is used or intended to be used for recreational
activities, such as picnics, camping, etc.
2.2
"Peace Officer" is a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
or a Peace Officer appointed under the Peace Officers Act.
2.3
"Animal" means a domestic animal and includes an animal that is
wild by nature but has been domesticated;
2.4
"Camping Accommodation Unit" means
(i)
a tent,
(ii)
a trailer,
(iii)
a tent trailer,
(iv)
a motor home,
(v)
a van, or
(vi)
a truck camper
used by a person as shelter equipment while camping;
2.5
"Highway" means highway as defined in the Traffic Safety Act.
2.6
"Individual Campsite" means a campsite in a Public Park
designated as an individual campsite;
2.7
"Motor Vehicle" means a motor vehicle as defined in the Traffic
Safety Act.
2.8
"Off-highway Vehicle" means an off-highway vehicle as defined in
the Traffic Safety Act
2.9
"Park Manager" means a person appointed by Council or the Park
Management Committee; the Manager/Sgt of Protective &
Emergency Services or his designate or any other agencies private
or public who own or operates a public park
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2.10 "Park Management Committee" is a committee of Council and/or
local community group appointed by Council to manage the day-to-
day operations of a public park.
2.11 "Nuisance" means intoxication; swearing; use of obscene, offensive
or insulting language; fighting or disorderly conduct.
2.12 "Quiet Time" means the period between 11:00 p.m. (2300 hours)
and 7:00 a.m. (700 hours).
3.
GENERAL
3.1
A person who enters a Public Park shall comply with
(a)
This Bylaw and each of the provisions herein, and
(b)
Any lawful orders and instructions made or issued pursuant to
this Bylaw, and
(c)
The instructions, prohibitions and directions prescribed by all
lawfully designated and erected signs and notices.
3.2
Council may
(a)
Subject to the Traffic Safety Act, and Municipal Government
Act, control and prohibit the movement of vehicular,
pedestrian and other traffic by means of signs and notices
designated and erected by them, and
(b)
Designate and erect other signs and notices governing and
prohibiting activities that are provided for in the Municipal
Government Act or this Bylaw.
3.3
A person using a Public Park shall keep the land and improvements
in a condition satisfactory to the Park Manager.
3.4
A person vacating the Public Park shall restore the land to a clean
and tidy condition.
3.5
If a nuisance allegedly exists on any site which is the subject of a
permit, a Park Manager or a Peace Officer may (in addition to, or
without, issuing a warning or charging the person causing the
nuisance with an offense) order the person causing the nuisance to
abate or discontinue the nuisance, and the person shall forthwith
abate or discontinue the nuisance.
3.6
Where a person fails to comply with an order made pursuant to
subsection 3.5, the Park Manager or Peace Officer may, (in addition
to, or without, issuing a warning, or charging the person with an
offense) take whatever steps are necessary to abate or have
discontinued the nuisance, and such action shall be taken at the
expense of the person in default.
4.
PROHIBITIONS
4.1
No person shall commit or cause a nuisance in a Public Park.
4.2
No person shall interfere with the right of others to the quiet and
peaceful enjoyment or a Public Park.
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4.3
No person who has been removed from a Public Park pursuant to
Section 9 of this Bylaw shall within the following 72-hour period, enter
or attempt to re-enter that Public Park.
4.4
No person shall remove, deface damage or destroy any signboard,
sign or notice posted or placed in a Public Park.
4.5
No person shall play or operate or permit to be played or operated
any radio, television, record or tape player or musical instrument,
(any of the foregoing or any other apparatus for the production or
amplification of sound being referred to in this Bylaw as any
"apparatus") at any time in a Public Park in such a manner as to
cause unreasonable or excessive noise, having regard to the rights
of others to the quiet and peaceful enjoyment of a Public Park.
4.6
No person shall play or operate or permit to be played or operated
any apparatus at any location in a Public Park during Quiet Time.
4.7
No person shall shout or otherwise make or cause or permit to be
made any noise in a Public Park during Quiet Time, in such a manner
that such noise can be easily heard by an individual or member of
the public who is not on the individual campsite registered to such
person or a member of his group. The provisions of this Section 4.7
shall in no way restrict or limit the provisions of Section 4.6 of this
Bylaw.
4.8
No person shall consume any alcohol, except within a camping stall
and in compliance with all provincial and federal regulations.
4.9
No person shall consume cannabis, in any form (ex: smoking,
vaping, edibles), in a Public Park.
5.
ANIMALS
5.1
No person having the custody or control of an animal shall bring the
animal into a Public Park or allow the animal to enter or remain in a
Public Park unless it is in a cage or is restricted by a leash, chain or
other device that is not greater than 2 meters long.
5.2
No person having custody or control of an animal shall bring the
animal into or allow the animal to enter or remain in or on any area
in a Public Park that is
(a)
a designated swimming area,
(b)
a beach area adjacent to a designated swimming area,
(c)
a public washroom, change house, concession, picnic shelter
or other public building or structure, or
(d)
an area where signs are posted prohibiting animals.
5.3
A Park Manager or Peace Officer may refuse to admit to a Public
Park, or require to be removed from a Public Park any animal if he
considers it is not under the control specified in this Bylaw, or if it may
be a nuisance or a danger to the life, safety, health, property or
comfort of any person in the Public Park. Any person having the
custody or control of an animal that is required to be removed in
accordance with this section shall forthwith remove the animal from
the Public Park. If the person allegedly defaults in removing the
animal, the Park Manager or Peace Officer may (in addition to, or
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without, issuing a warning or charging the person with an offense
under this Bylaw) remove the animal at the expense of such person.
6.
FIRES
6.1
No person shall set, light or maintain a fire in a Public Park except in
a fireplace, pit or other facility provided for that purpose.
6.2
No person shall leave a fire unattended or allow it to spread.
6.3
No person shall deposit or dispose of hot coals, ashes, embers or
any other burning or smoldering material in a place other than a
stove, fire pit or other place provided for that purpose.
6.4
A person who lights a fire shall extinguish all fires, hot coals and
smoldering materials before leaving them.
7.
VEHICLES
7.1
No person shall, within a Public Park operate or ride an off-highway
vehicle or any other such specialized means of conveyance, whether
motor driven or propelled by human power, except
(a)
on a trail or in an area set aside, designated by Council or
identified by regulatory signs, notices, or trail markers posted
as a trail or area for the use of such conveyances,
(b)
to cross a highway in the manner permitted under the Off-
Highway Vehicle Act,
(c)
Subsection (7.1) does not apply to bicycles.
7.2
No person shall park or leave a motor vehicle, boat, trailer or
camping accommodation unit, or permit a motor vehicle, boat trailer
or camping accommodation unit to be parked or left in a Public Park
other than as permitted by Section 8.8 of this Bylaw or in parking
areas designated for that purpose.
7.3 No person, unless authorized by the County Administrator or their
designate, shall develop, place, construct, extend, erect a building,
structure, fixture, road, excavation or other development, whether
on, above or below ground within a Public Park or lands under the
direct control of Camrose County.
7.4
A Park Manager and/or Peace Officer may prohibit the entry of a
vehicle into any part of any Public Park.
7.5 (1)
In this section "abandoned" means left standing at a location
for more than 72 consecutive hours other than pursuant to
(a)
a license, permit or other similar authorization, or
(b)
prior authorization of a Park Manager.
(2)
If a motor vehicle, off-highway vehicle, aircraft, boat trailer,
equipment, appliance article or object
(a)
is abandoned,
(b)
remains in an area after the authorization to be in that
area expires, or
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(c)
is located in a prohibited area,
A Park Manager or Peace Officer may order the owner,
operator or person in charge of the item to move the item to a
location determined by the Peace Officer and within the period
of time determined by him. If the owner, operator or person
in charge cannot be located, notice under this Section may be
given in writing affixed to or as near as is reasonably practical
to the item.
(3)
Where the owner, operator or person in charge of the item
fails to comply with the order of a Park Manager or Peace
Officer under subsection (2), a Peace Officer may (in addition
to or without issuing a warning or charging a person with an
offense under this Bylaw or any other applicable statute or
Bylaw, and in addition to any other action he may take under
any other Bylaw or statute) move and store the item or cause
it to be moved and stored.
(4)
If the item removed and stored is a vehicle as that term is
defined in the Motor Vehicle Administration Act, the provisions
of that Act with respect to costs of removal and storage, lien
for costs, enforcement of the lien, and disposition of the
vehicle and sale proceeds shall apply.
(5)
If the item removed and stored is not a vehicle as defined in
the Motor Vehicle Administration Act, then the provisions of
Section 610 of the Municipal Government Act with respect to
unclaimed property shall apply.
8.
CAMPING
8.1
All persons entering a Public Park shall register when required to do
so by a sign or notice at or near the entrance to the Public Park.
8.2
Council may provide for and cause to be designated areas within
Public Parks for camping and day use purposes.
8.3
No person shall camp overnight in a Public Park
(a)
except in an area designated for that purpose, unless he is
otherwise authorized by the Park Manager,
(b)
unless he has a valid permit under this Bylaw to do so.
8.4
Permits for overnight camping shall be issued on a first-come, first-
served basis and at a fee established by Council or the
owner/operator of the Public Park.
8.5
No person shall alter a camping permit.
8.6
No person shall transfer a camping permit to another person.
8.7
The holder of a camping permit shall keep it available for inspection
at any time and shall produce it for inspection on the request of a
Park Manager and/or Peace Officer.
8.8 (1)
Where a campground within a Public Park is developed for
individual campsites, only the following vehicles and camping
accommodation units are permitted to be kept in an individual
campsite unless a Park Manager gives written permission to
the contrary.
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(a)
1 motor vehicle.
(b)
in addition to the motor vehicle referred to in clause (a)
1 camping accommodation unit of any kind, including a
camping accommodation unit that is a motor vehicle.
(c)
in addition to the motor vehicle referred to in clause (a)
and the camping accommodation unit referred to in
clause (b) 1 tent.
(2)
No person in whose name an individual campsite is registered
shall bring onto or permit to remain on the campsite more
vehicles or camping accommodation units than are permitted
by subsection (1).
(3)
No person who is visiting a person camped in an individual
campsite, shall park his vehicle on the campsite
(a)
after 11:00 p.m., or
(b)
in a manner or at a location that impedes traffic.
8.9
Not more than 8 persons may occupy an individual campsite unless
they are all members of a single-family unit. Two family units of not
more than a total of eight people may occupy an individual campsite.
8.10 (1)
No person shall camp for more than 16 consecutive days in
the same campground in a Public Park without the written
permission of a Park Manager.
(2)
For the purposes of subsection (1) a period of at least 24
hours must elapse after a person checks out of and vacates a
campsite after the expiration of a 16-day period before he may
again camp in that campground.
9.
ENFORCEMENT
9.1
In addition to any other penalty or remedy, a Park Manager or Peace
Officer may cancel a camping permit without prior notice to the
permittee if the permittee contravenes this Bylaw and the permittee
shall vacate the campsite within 1 hour from having been requested
to do so.
9.2
On the expiry or cancellation of his camping permit, the permit holder
shall ensure that the campsite is vacated and that all shelter
equipment and other property belonging to him or persons in his
group is removed.
10.
POWERS OF A PEACE OFFICER
10.1 For the purposes of administering this Bylaw, a Peace Officer may
(a)
Enter on and inspect any land, road, highway, structure or
work in a Public Park;
(b)
Order any person in a Public Park to cease or refrain from any
action, omission or conduct that is or might reasonably be
considered to be dangerous to life or property or detrimental
to the use and enjoyment of the park or recreation area by
other persons;
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(c)
remove from a Public Park
(i)
any person making an unauthorized use of the park,
(ii)
any person failing to comply with any provisions of this
Bylaw, or
(iii)
any person creating a nuisance or disturbance or
committing a trespass or any undesirable act.
11.
PENALTIES
11.1 A persons who contravenes any provision of this Bylaw either by
doing something that is prohibited or by failing to do something which
he is required to do, is guilty of an offense and, except as provided
in section 11.2, is liable in the case of a first offense to a fine of not
less than $50.00 and not more than $200.00 and in default of
payment imprisonment for a period not exceeding 30 days, and in
the case of a 2nd or subsequent offense to a fine of not less than
$100.00 and not more than $2,500.00 and in default of payment
imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 months.
11.2 A person who contravenes Sections 3.5, 5.3 or 9.1 of this Bylaw by
failing to comply with an order or requirement of a Park Manager or
Peace Officer is guilty of an offense and is liable in the case of a first
offense to a fine of not less than $100.00 and not more than $500.00
and in default of payment imprisonment for a period not exceeding
30 days, and in the case of a second or subsequent offense to a fine
of not less than $200.00 and not more than $2,500.00 and in default
of payment imprisonment for a period not exceeding 6 months.
12.
Bylaw No. 1438 is hereby rescinded.
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2025 A.D. IN THE CITY OF CAMROSE, *
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