§ 10-1.03. Restricted acts.

It shall be unlawful for any person within the limits of public schools, parks, recreation areas, and open spaces which are now or which may hereafter be within the City, including all grounds, roadways, avenues, parks, buildings, campgrounds, swimming pools, equestrian trails, bicycle trails, hiking trails, and school facilities under the control, management, or direction of either the Simi Valley Unified School District and the Simi Valley Recreation and Park District:

(a)

To ride or drive any horse or other animal or to propel any vehicle, cycle, or automobile, except at a place and time especially designated and provided for such purpose;

(b)

To carry or discharge any firearm, air gun, slingshot, or other device designed or intended to discharge, or capable of discharging, any dangerous missile, except in such places so designated by the Simi Valley Unified School District or the Simi Valley Recreation and Park District; provided, however, the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any peace officer or other person lawfully licensed to carry a concealed weapon or who regularly carries a weapon in connection with private or public employment to protect the property or persons;

(c)

To make or kindle a fire, except in a picnic stove, brazier, fire pit, or other appropriate device provided or approved for that purpose by the Simi Valley Unified School District or the Simi Valley Recreation and Park District;

(d)

To play or engage in the flying of motorized or self-propelled model airplanes or rockets or motorized self-propelled model cars and boats, the driving of golf balls, archery, baseball, softball, football, soccer, volleyball, or any similar game of a hazardous nature, except at such places and times as shall be especially set apart for such purposes;

(e)

To play or bet at or against any game which is played, conducted, dealt, or carried on with cards, dice, or other device for money, chips, shells, credit, or any other representative of value or to maintain or exhibit any gambling table or other instrument of gambling or gaming;

(f)

To post, place, or erect, or to leave posted, placed, or erected, any commercial or noncommercial bill, handbill, circular, notice, paper, or advertising device or matter of any kind in or upon any building, structure, pole, wire, or other architectural or natural feature of whatever character, except upon a bulletin board of such place especially designated and provided for such purposes, unless prior approval so to do has been obtained from the Superintendent of Schools or the General Manager of the Simi Valley Recreation and Park District for the facilities under his direction, which approval shall be given only if the Superintendent of Schools or the General Manager of the Simi Valley Recreation and Park District determines that it would be affirmatively in the public interest to allow the use of public property for such purposes, or that constitutional principles require that the same be allowed;

(g)

To sell or offer for sale any merchandise, article, or thing whatsoever or to practice, carry on, conduct, or solicit for any trade, occupation, business, or profession, unless such activity has been expressly allowed by a permit issued by the Simi Valley Unified School District or the Simi Valley Recreation and Park District; and

(h)

To remain, stay, or loiter or to allow to remain any automobile or other conveyance, except in the case of an emergency, in a school facility between the hours of sundown and 7:00 a.m., or in a Simi Valley Recreation and Park District facility between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and dawn of the following day, or as otherwise posted, except while attending a gathering or meeting for which a permit has been issued or which is being sponsored or conducted by the Simi Valley Unified School District or the Simi Valley Recreation and Park District for the facilities under their respective control.

(§ 6315, S.V.M.C., as amended by § 1, Ord. 193, and § 1, Ord. 237 C.O., eff. February 11, 1976)