§8-21-10. General powers of board; enactment and enforcement of
rules and regulations; counsel.
The board shall have the necessary, appropriate, convenient
and incidental powers and authority to manage and control all
public parks, parkways, playgrounds, athletic fields, stadiums,
swimming pools, skating rinks or arenas and other public park and
recreational facilities of all kinds used as a part of said public
park and recreation system or as a means of maintaining places of
beauty, education and recreation, and promoting the health,
property, lives, decency, morality and good order of the general
public, and particularly of the inhabitants of the city and
vicinity; to abate or cause to be abated all nuisances affecting
same; to regulate or prohibit the selling of any article, goods,
wares or merchandise within said park and recreation system so
designated; to regulate or prohibit the placing of signs,
billboards, posters and advertisements within said park and
recreation system as so designated, or the grounds immediately
adjacent thereto; to have the same kept in good order and free from
obstruction for the use and benefit of the public; to restrict and
prohibit vagrants, mendicants, beggars, tramps, prostitutes or
disorderly individuals therefrom; to establish, construct, improve,
extend, develop, maintain and operate such parks, parkways,
playgrounds, athletic fields, stadiums, swimming pools, skating
rinks or arenas and other public park and recreational facilities,
whether of a like or different nature, on any grounds controlled by said board; to acquire for public use by lease or otherwise lands
either within or without the corporate limits of the city; to cause
any public street, avenue, road, alley, way, bridle path or
walkway, which is a part of the public park and recreation system,
to be graded, drained and surfaced; to construct, maintain and
operate all necessary sewers and water lines in connection with
said public park and recreation system; and to do any and all other
things or acts which may in any way be necessary, appropriate,
convenient or incidental to the use and enjoyment of said public
park and recreation system by the general public as a place or
places of beauty, education, entertainment and recreation.
In order to accomplish the foregoing purposes, said board is
hereby empowered and authorized to promulgate, and amend from time
to time, such rules and regulations as may be necessary,
appropriate, convenient or incidental thereto; after codification
of such rules and regulations, or any amendment thereto, by
ordinance of the governing body which may provide penalties for a
violation thereof, which codification is hereby authorized, to
enforce the same by appropriate proceedings in any proper tribunal
of this state, or any county, district or municipality thereof; and
to employ such police officers as it shall deem proper and
necessary. The city attorney shall be the official counsel for
said board and shall advise it on all legal matters, but said board
may, in its own discretion, employ other or additional counsel.