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CITY OF
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LAKESIDE MUNICIPAL PARK
RULES
HOURS: 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
PARKING/DRIVING Vehicles (including motorcycles)
shall park/drive only in designated
areas.
Be aware of restricted parking areas
handicapped, no parking etc.
Watch for pedestrians/children.
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BOATING Boats shall remain 150 feet from
swimmining area
Dock is for loading/unloading only
SWIMMING No lifeguard on duty
Swim only in bouyed area
GENERAL No glass containers
No keg beer
Place refuse in proper container
Report emergencies to. park attendant
Be courteous to others.
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POST OFFICE BOX 250, BIG LAKE, MINNESOTA 55309 LOCAL (612)263-2107 METRO 333-3037
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City of Big Lake
ORDINANCE NO. 3700
An Ordinance Governing Parks Under the Jurisdiction of the City
Council of the City Of Big Lake
The City Council of Big Lake ordains:
SECTION 3700.010
Purpose. The purpose of this Ordinance which is enacted
pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, is to secure the quiet, orderly and
suitable use of public parks, trail systems, and public access to
lakes established by the City of Big Lake, and to further the safety,
health, comfort and welfare of all persons in the use thereof.
SECTION 3700.020
Definitions. For the purpose of this Ordinance, the terms
defined in this Section shall have the meanings given them in this
Section.
1. "Big Lake Parks" means the park organization or system in
the City of Big Lake.
2. "Park Director"means the person appointed by the City
Administrator to serve as the chief administrative officer of the City
Park System.
3. "Park" means any land or water area and all facilities
thereon, established as a part of City of Big Lake pursuant to
Minnesota Statutes.
4. "Park Visitor" means any person, firm, partnership,
association, corporation, governmental unit, company or organization
of any kind within a park.
5. "Vehicle" means any motorized, propelled, animal drawn or
human powered conveyance.
6. "Domestic animal" means a dog, cat or horse.
7. "Motorized Recreation Vehicle" means any self propelled,
off-the-road, or all terrain conveyance, including but not limited to
a snowmoble, minibike, amphibous vehicle, motorcycle, go-cart, trail
bike, dune buggy, or four-wheel drive.
8. "Weapon" means any devise from which shots or projectile
of any type can be discharged by means of explosive, gas, compressed
air or otherwise propelled, including but not limited to firearms, bow
and arrows, slings and spring guns.
9. "WildLife" means all living creatures, not human, wild by
nature, endowed by sensation and power or voluntary motion, including
quadrupeds, mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, crustaceans
and mollusks.
10. "Intoxicating Liquor" means any liquor which is
intoxicating pursuant to Minnesota law and includes ethyl alcohol,
distilled, fermented, spirituous, vinous, and malt beverages
containing in excess of 3.2 percent alcohol by weight.
11 . "Non-Intoxicating Malt Liquor" means a beverage
containing not more than 3.2 percent alcohol by weight.
12. "Drugs" means any substance defined as a controlled
substance by Chapter 152, Minnesota or other statutes of Federal Law
or regulation.
ORDINANCE 3700
page 2
SECTION 3700.030
General Conduct. It shall be unlawful for any person to:
1 . Use threatening, abusive, insulting, obscene or indecent
language or to act in an indecent manner, or to do any act which
constitutes a breach of the public peace in a park.
2. Have in possession or bring into a park
"Non-Intoxicating" or "Intoxicating" Malt Liquor or beer in kegs or
barrels.
3. Consume any alcoholic beverage, whether"Intoxicating
Liquor" or "Non-Intoxicating Liquor" in a park after 10:00 p.m.
o'clock p.m. and before the park is open the following day.
4. Disturb, harass or interfere with any park visitor's
property.
5. Deposit, scatter, drop or abandon in a park any bottles,
cans, broken glass, sewage, waste or other material, except in
receptacles provided for such purposes.
6. Enter a park with glass beverage containers.
7. Dig trenchs or make other excavation in park.
8. Throw, discharge or place on or upon any lake, stream,
creek, pond or other body of water in or adjacent to a park, or
tributary, stream, storm sewer, or drain flowing into such waters any
substance, liquid or gas.
9. Gamble or participate in any game of chance in a park.
10. Use any land or body of water within a park for starting
landing field for aircraft, balloons, or parachutes, without a permit
from the Park Director.
11. Start a fire in the park, except a small fire for
culinary purposes in a designated area, or fail to fully extinguish
such a fire.
12. Drop, throw or otherwise leave unattended in a park,
lighted matches, burning cigars, cigarettes, tobacco, paper or other
combustible material.
13. Sell, solicit, or carry on any business or commerical
enterprise or serve in a park unless authorized by the Park Director
in writing.
14. Use loudspeakers or other amplifying systems in a park,
except with written permission from the Park Director.
SECTION 3700.040
Protection of Natural Resources and Wildlife. It shall be
unlawful for any person to:
1 . Injure, destroy, or remove any tree, flower, shrub,
plant, rock, soil, and mineral in a park.
2. Kill, trap, hunt, pursue or in any manner disturb or
cause to be disturbed any species of wildlife within a park except
that fishing may be permitted in designated areas.
3. Shoot any weapon into a park from beyond park boundries.
4. Bring a dog, cat , horse or other domestic animal into a
4 park unless under the control of the owner or attendant and such
custodian shall have the responsibility of cleaning up any feces of
any animal and shall dispose of such in a sanitary manner.
Ordinance 3700
page 3
5. Bring or permit any dog, cat, horse or other domestic
animal to enter a beach area, nature center area, picnic area, park
building or skating rink.
6. Permit a dog, cat, horse or other domestic animal to
disturb, harass or interfere with any park visitor or visitor's
property.
7. Possess any weapon (as identified in Section 3700.020)
within a park.
8. Release within a park any plant, chemical or other agency
potentially harmful to the vegetation or wildlife or the park.
9. Remove any animal, living or dead, from a park and any
animal so removed or taken' contrary to the provisions of this
Ordinance or laws of the State of Minnesota shall be considered
contraband and subject to seizure and confiscation.
SECTION 3700.050
Camping. It shall be unlawful for any person to:
1. Camp in a park.
SECTION 3700.060
Swimming. It shall be unlawful for any person to:
1 . Wade or swim within a park except at beaches designated
for that purpose, and then only between sunrise and sunset, or such
hours as may be designated by the Park Director, any park visitors
shall swim or wade at their own risk.
2. Take bottles or glass of any kind, except eyeglasses into
a designated beach area.
3. Use air mattresses, innertubes or other inflatable
devices except in designated beach areas.
SECTION 3700.070
Boating. It shall be unlawful for any person to:
1. Launch or land any boat, yacht, canoe, raft or other
watercraft upon any water, lagoon lake, pond or slough within a park
except at locations and times designated for that purpose.
2. Leave unattended any boat or watercraft except in areas
designated for that purpose.
3. Operate any watercraft in a designated swimming area or
other prohibited area.
4. Operate any watercraft in a park in violation of
Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 361, "Waters and Watercraft Safety."
SECTION 3700.080
Fishing. It shall be unlawful for any person to:
Si. Leave any structure or shelter in any park for more than
forty-eight (48) hours.
Ordinance 3700
page 4
SECTION 3700.090
Horseback Riding. It shall be unlawful for any person to:
1 . Ride a horse or bring an untrailered horse into a park.
SECTION 3700.100
Bicycling. It shall be unlawful for any person to:
1. Operate a bicycle except at park designated bikeways and
roadways, and kept as close to the right hand side thereof as
conditions will permit.
SECTION 3700.110
Meetings, Speeches, Demonstrations and Parades: It shall be
unlawful for any person to:
1. Conduct public meeting, assemblies, entertainment,
parades or demonstrations within a park without first obtaining a
written permit from the Park Director, and then only in an area
designated by a permit.
SECTION 3700.120
Vehicles. It shall be unlawful for any person to:
110 1. Operate any vehicle within a park except upon designated
roadways and parking areas.
2. Operate a vehicle in a park at a speed in excess of
posted speed limits.
3. Park or leave a vehicle standing within a park except at
a designated parking area.
4. Operate a vehicle which emits excessive or unusual noise,
noxious fumes, dense smoke or other polluting matter.
5. Operate a vehicle in a reckless or careless manner in a
park.
6. Wash, polish, grease, change oil or repair any vehicle in
a park.
SECTION 3700.130
Motorized Recreation Vehicle. It shall be unlawful for any
person to:
1 . Operate a motorized recreation vehicle within a park
except on designated roadways and parking areas.
2. Operate a snowmobile within a park other than on
designated trails within the park for snowmobile traffic.
SECTION 3700.140
Park Operation.
1. A person may be granted a permit for temporary exclusive
• use of reserved space within a park.
2. No person shall remain within a park between the hours of
10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.
3. Any permit granted pursuant to this Ordinance, may be
revoked upon the violation by the permitee of any Ordinance, rule or
regulation of Parks, City of Big Lake.
CITY OF BIC LAKE
ORDINANCE NO. 301
An Ordinance Regulating the Speed and Direction of Boats on
Lake Mitchell and Big Lake
The City Council of Big Lake does hereby ordain:
Section 301 .01 : This Ordinance shall apply to the bodies of
water in the City of Big Lake known as Big Lake and Lake Mitchell.
Section 301 .02: All boats exceeding a slow-no wake speed
shall travel in a counter-clockwise direction. •
Section 301 .03: Maximum speed limit of boats shall be 40
m.p.h. at all times with the exception of those areas and times listed
in Section 301 .04 and 301 .05.
Section 301 .04: Maximum speed limit of boats shall be 15
m.p.h. sunset to sunrise all year.
Section 301 .05: A slow-no wake speed shall be maintained in
the area extending 100 feet from the shore. Boats launching or
landing water skiers by the most direct route to open water shall be
exempt from this provision.
Section 301 .06: Any boat owner or the operator thereof if
4110 the owner not be present who violates any provision of this ordinance
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 301 .07: Definition. Slow no wake means operation of
a watercraft at the slowest possible speed necessary to maintain
steerage and in no case greater than 5 m.p.h.
Section 301 .08: Primary enforcement of this ordinance shall
rest with Sherburne County Sheriff 's Office.
Section 301 .09: The City of Big Lake shall be responsible
for marking the public accesses and lakes with signs or bouys
explaining the rules and regulations of this ordinance.
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Adopted by the Big Lake City Council this 3rd day of January
1989.
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Michael ,. Morrison. Administrator
CITY OF BIG LAKE
ORDINANCE NO. 2
An Ordinance Permitting the Placement of Temporary Docks Adjacent
to the Shore of Big Lake on Certain Designated Public Rights-of-Way
1. The temporary placement of docks shall be permitted from specified
areas of public property and/or public rights-of-way adjacent to
the shores of Big Lake and Mitchell Lake in the following
described area:
All that part of Shadywood Park according to the recorded plat
thereof, Sherburne County, Minnesota lying Easterly of a line
distant 66.00 feet East of the Easterly lines of Blocks 1, 2, 3, 4
and 5 and there Northerly and Southerly extensions
and
All that part of Oakland Heights according to the recorded plat
thereof, Sherburne County, Minnesota lying Easterly of a line
distant 66.00 feet East of the Easterly lines of Blocks 1,2 and 3,
and there Northerly and Southerly extensions.
2. All docks shall be marked with the owner's name and address in a
conspicuous place clearly visible to the public.
3. All docks, boat lifts and all other personal property must be
removed from Big Lake and Mitchell Lake and the public
right-of-way as hereinabove described between November 15 and
• April 1 of each calendar year.
4. A violation of a provision of this Ordinance is a misdemeanor.
5. Notwithstanding any other penalties described herein, in the event
a party fails and/or refuses to remove' a dock or other personal
property from the lake or public right-of-way, then upon failure
to comply following written notice tb the owner as identified in
accordance with Paragraph 2, the City of Big Lake shall be
entitled to remove said offending property, storing and selling
the same in accordance with offending property, storing and
selling the same in accordance with Minnesota Statutes. In the
event the City of Big Lake suffers a cost of storage and/or sale
which is not recovered from the sale, the City of Big Lake shall
be entitled to maintain a cause of action against the owner of the
dock and/or property to recover the remaining balance.
6. This Ordinance shall be effective from and after the date of its
passage and publication.
Adopted by the Big Lake City Council this 21st day of November,
1988.
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Euge i= B. Earney, Mayo
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Michael J. sA son, Administr.at•