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20.12.200 Trespassing and Areas Closed to the Public.

Label: City code section
  1. A.  Unless authorized, no person may enter any building, enclosure, or place within any park upon which the words "no admittance," or similar words indicating that entry is prohibited or restricted, are displayed.
  2. B.  No person may ride, drive, or walk on parts or portions of the parks or pavements as are closed to public travel, nor may any person interfere with barriers erected in any park.
  3. C.  No unauthorized person may enter any municipal swimming pool, secured stadium or other secured park facility, or any enclosed area thereof, at any time other than when the facility is regularly open for public use.
  4. D.  No person may enter or remain in any municipal swimming pool, nor in any deck area adjacent to it, nor in any locker room, shower room, changing room or restroom serving a municipal swimming pool, nor within any designated children’s play area, nor in any area of a park within 25 feet of any outdoor pool fence line or children’s play area, if the person previously has been convicted of any sexual offense under ORS 163.305 to 163.479, or under ORS 163.665 to 163.689, or under the laws of any other jurisdiction that would constitute an offense if it had been committed in the State of Oregon, if the victim of any offense was sixteen years of age or younger and was not biologically related to the person. This Section will not apply if the sole basis of the conviction was the lack of consent due solely to the victim’s lack of capacity to consent by reason of being less than a specified age, if the victim was not more than three years younger than the person at the time of the offense.
  5. E.  No person, other than a park officer on lawful business, may enter or remain in or on any park or park facility for which an admission or use fee is required, without having paid that admission or use fee.
  6. F.  No person may enter or remain in any park in violation of an exclusion issued under Section 20.12.265.
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