§ 10.6-50. Prohibited activities.

Guests shall be prohibited from engaging in the following activities on all environmental lands unless authorized by a special use permit pursuant to sections 10.6-48 and 10.6-49:

(a)

Parking a motor vehicle, including a commercial vehicle as defined by the land development code, in an unauthorized location or in a manner blocking roads or gates.

(b)

Discharging firecrackers, rockets, sparklers, or any other fireworks.

(c)

Pets, other than leashed dogs and service animals, under the control of the owner.

(d)

Destroying, injuring, defacing, removing, or harvesting any natural feature or native plant, or any part thereof. This prohibition includes the felling of dead trees.

(e)

Destroying, injuring, defacing, removing, or disturbing in any manner any public facility, including buildings, towers, recorders, gauges, signs, gates, fences, equipment, monuments, markers, ramps, docks, boardwalks, or other structures or improvements.

(f)

Destroying or damaging scientific study plots, photo points, transect lines, or survey markers.

(g)

Destroying, defacing or removing any archaeological or cultural resource, including fossils. Possession of a metal detector on an environmental land is prohibited.

(h)

Disposing of any garbage, waste, junk, or debris, including paper products, cans, bottles, waste materials and rubbish other than in containers provided for such disposal and disposing of any garbage not generated on-site.

(i)

Cleaning fish, game, food, clothing, and household articles at potable watering stations or in rest rooms; however, game may be cleaned at authorized areas where it is caught or harvested as a part of a county-authorized hunting event even if a special use permit was not issued.

(j)

Installing, constructing, erecting, or maintaining any unauthorized camp, fort, building, structure or sign.

(k)

Playing any radio, tape player, disc player, musical instrument or similar device, or otherwise operating a sound-amplifying device, in such a manner or with such volume as to annoy or disturb the quiet, comfort or repose of persons using county environmental lands.

(l)

Building a fire other than at an authorized campsite or picnic area in grills, fireplaces or fire rings provided by the county or other authorized management agency for such purpose. This prohibition does not apply to fires confined within portable campstoves or grills provided by the user.

(m)

Selling or offering for sale any goods, merchandise or services without prior written consent.

(n)

Possessing or using any device (including, but not limited, to air guns, spring guns, paintball guns, gas guns, blow guns, bows, crossbows, and spear guns) capable of mechanically, rather than explosively, propelling or expelling a projectile.

(o)

Removing, injuring, killing, or harassing wildlife.

(p)

Purchasing, selling, offering for sale, possessing or consuming any alcoholic beverage.

(q)

Playing paintball or possessing a paintball gun.

(r)

Releasing, abandoning, or leaving any animal, reptile, or bird in an environmental land.

(s)

Leaving, placing, or planting any plant or plant material in an environmental land.

(t)

The take off or landing of privately owned aircraft, whether motorized or not, conventional or model, including airplanes, helicopters, ultra lights, gliders, and hang gliders, shall be prohibited on environmental lands.

(u)

Remote-controlled or radio-controlled cars, boats, airplanes and similar objects are not permitted on an environmental land.

(Ord. No. 08-003, § 3.3, 3-19-08; Ord. No. 11-022, § 1, 9-27-11)