§ 90-6. Protection of property, facilities, flora, and fauna.

(a)

Buildings and facilities. No person shall engage in any of the following activities on any county-owned or managed land without prior written authorization from the administrator or designee:

(1)

Willfully mark, deface, damage, displace, destroy, remove, or tamper with any buildings, facilities, bridges, piers, tables, benches, railings, paving or paving materials, water lines or other utilities, permanent or temporary signs, placards, notices, monuments, stakes, posts, gateways, locks, fencing, boundary markers, or other structures, equipment or county property;

(2)

Use any county-owned or managed land or related facility, including but not limited to buildings, bridges, piers, tables, benches, or railings in a manner that precludes regular and customary usage to other patrons, unless such person has obtained the right to exclusive usage from the department;

(3)

Construct, erect, or place any buildings, monuments, memorials, plaques, tributes, or structures of whatever kind, whether permanent or temporary in character, or run or string any public service utility into, upon, or across such lands;

(4)

Use tacks, nails, staples, or other items that penetrate wood on shelters, signs, trees, boardwalks, or other structures;

(5)

Enter, occupy, or use in any manner any lifeguard stand or station, lifeguard vessel or surfboard, or other lifesaving equipment at any time;

(6)

Climb on or over any buildings, facilities, fences, benches, picnic tables, structures, historic ruins, or boardwalk and bridge railings; nor shall any person stand or sit on any structure not intended for such use;

(7)

Dispose of trash or garbage generated outside county-owned or managed lands in any refuse facility within a county-owned or managed land, with the exception of disposing of recyclable materials in recycling containers provided by the county; or

(8)

Possess food on or within any boardwalk, observation tower, or designated dog park.

(b)

Plant life. All plant life, living or dead, terrestrial, aquatic, and epiphytic species, within any county-owned or managed land is either the property of the county or is property managed by the county. No person shall engage in any of the following activities on any county-owned or managed land without prior written authorization from the administrator or designee:

(1)

Cut, carve, break off, nail into, or otherwise damage bark, limbs, or branches of any plant or tree, except within designated special use areas; nor shall any person harvest any flowers or seeds or otherwise mutilate a plant or tree, except within designated special use areas;

(2)

Dig in, disturb, or in any other way impair the natural condition of any area, except within designated special use areas; nor shall any person place debris or materials of any kind on or about any tree or plant, or climb, or attach any rope, wire, wooden boards, or ladders thereto, except within designated special use areas; or

(3)

Transplant, possess, or remove any plant or plant part from any county-owned or managed land; nor shall any person introduce any plant species by willful act, negligence, or for any other reason.

(c)

Sand, soil, and wood. No person shall, without prior written authorization from the administrator or designee, on any county-owned or managed land:

(1)

Move or remove any sand, clay, soil, rock, stones, timber, or other wood or natural materials, whether submerged or not;

(2)

Make any search or excavation by tool, equipment, blasting, or other means or agency; or

(3)

Perform any manner of turf or landscape maintenance activity unless duly authorized as a county employee, contractor, or volunteer.

(d)

Wildlife. No person shall engage in any of the following activities on any county-owned or managed land without prior written authorization from the administrator or designee:

(1)

Possess, molest, harm, frighten, kill, trap, hunt, chase, capture, shoot, or throw any object at any wildlife; remove the eggs, nest, or young of any wildlife; remove, possess, give away, sell or offer to sell, buy or offer to buy, or accept as a gift any specimen, dead or alive, of any wildlife, except by permit granted by the department or in accordance with a valid fishing permit issued by the state. Fishing, including the collection of shells containing living wildlife, is further restricted in section 90-7(e) of the Code. The collection of shells containing no living wildlife, however, is permitted, except at archaeological sites, on a county or state historic site, on a site listed with the National Registry of Historic Places, or other sites as designated by the administrator or designee;

(2)

Feed or attempt to pet any wildlife; or

(3)

Introduce any pet, plant or other wildlife into any county-owned or managed land by willful abandonment, negligence, or for any other reason.

(e)

Historic artifacts and remains. No person shall:

(1)

Without prior written authorization from the administrator or designee, willfully mark, deface, damage, displace, destroy, excavate, disturb, remove, or tamper with any cultural resource, historic artifact, or skeletal remains of any species, within any county-owned or managed land; or

(2)

Without a permit for scientific research under section 90-9, dispose of or deposit the skeletal or cremated remains of any species within any county-owned or managed land.

(Ord. No. 10-44, § 1, 9-28-10; Ord. No. 16-40, § 6, 7-19-16)