§ 11.04.060. Resource protection.

(a)

Natural Features. It is unlawful to engage in any of the following acts within any county park or facility without the prior permission of the director or designee:

(1)

Cut, pick, mutilate, or destroy any vegetation.

(2)

Introduce any flora or fauna.

(3)

Pick, dig up, cut, mutilate, destroy, injure, disturb, move, molest, burn, or carry away any tree or plant or portion thereof, including, but not limited to, leaf mold, flowers, foliage, berries, fruit, grass, fern, turf, humus, shrubs, cones, and dead wood.

(4)

Place upon, attach, or secure to any tree, plant, shrub, rock or other natural feature any rope, wiremark, writing, printing, card, display, placard, or object.

(b)

Geological Features. It is unlawful for any person to engage in the following acts within any county park or facility without prior written authorization from the director or designee:

(1)

Remove, cut, dig, or disfigure any soil, rock, or fossil.

(2)

Dig up, pick, remove, mutilate, injure, or collect any historical or archaeological artifact or object.

(3)

Disturb, deface, disfigure, mark on or destroy any cave, rock formation or any other naturally occurring feature.

(4)

Deposit any earth, sand, rock, stone, or other substance or dig such materials from any area.

(c)

Water Features—Fishing. It is unlawful for any person to engage in the following acts within any county park or facility without prior written authorization from the director or designee:

(1)

Throw, discharge or otherwise place or cause to be placed into the waters of any fountain, pond, lake, stream, ocean, or other body of water or in any tributary, stream, or drain flowing into such waters, or place upon the shore area thereof, any substance, matter, or thing, liquid or solid, including, but without limitation to, particles or objects made of paper, metal, glass, styrofoam, garbage, rubbish, rubber, fuel, food matter, wood, fiber, and plastics, or other polluting substances of any kind, except that fishing baits and lures may be utilized in the process of fishing.

(2)

Discharge any waste water, sewage, or effluents anywhere except in receptacles provided.

(3)

Clean fish, except at places designated by park personnel.

(4)

Receive, bring or cause to be brought into any county park any amphibian or aquatic plant from any place for the purpose of propagation without the prior approval of the California Department of Fish and Game and the director or designee.

(5)

Receive, bring or cause to be brought into any county park any species that poses a threat to the waters of any county park.

(d)

Pesticides and Hazardous Materials. No person, with the exception of park personnel in the normal course of their duties, shall disperse or otherwise apply any pesticide or any other hazardous material within any county park or facility whether to the air, water, ground, or vegetation, unless written authorization has been obtained in advance from the director or designee.

(e)

Special Permits. The director or designee may grant a permit to remove, treat, disturb, or destroy plants, fish, animals, or birds, or geological, historical, archaeological or paleontological materials as deemed necessary or convenient and consistent with all local, state, and federal rules and regulations.

(f)

Animals—Injuring or Killing. No person, with the exception of depredation permits approved by the director or designee and issued by the California Department of Fish and Game, shall or attempt to molest, hunt, disturb, injure, trap, take, net, poison, harm, tease or kill any kind of wild or domestic animal, bird, or reptile, or their eggs or nests, or fish, except that fish may be taken other than for commercial purposes in accordance with the state of California(s applicable fishing laws and regulations. Notwithstanding, no person shall use or discharge a spear or bow and arrow in any county park (except in underwater parks or on designated archery ranges). Where hunting in a county park or portion thereof is permitted by regulations herein, so much of this section as is inconsistent therewith shall be deemed inapplicable, provided hunting is conducted in the manner specified.

(g)

Feeding Wildlife. No person shall feed wildlife within any county park unless authorized in advance by the director or designee.

(h)

Animals—Grazing Livestock. No person shall release or abandon any animal, amphibian, bird, or reptile, dead or alive, within a county park, or permit any cattle, sheep, goats, Horses, wild or any domestic animal, bird, or reptile to roam or graze other than in specifically designated areas.

(i)

Rock Climbing. It is unlawful for any person to rock climb within any county park without the prior written permission from the director or designee.

(Ord. No. 3272, § 1(Exh. A), 10-7-14)