A. Park and Forestry Committee. The terms "Committee" and "Park and Forestry Committee" shall mean the Wood County Park and Forestry Committee.

B. Park. The terms "park", "County Park" and "Wood County Park," are defined to mean all lands and water heretofore and hereafter acquired by the County for Park or recreational purposes or placed under the jurisdiction of the Park and Forestry Committee, and include, without limitations, parks, and privately owned lands, the use of which has been granted to the County for park, recreational, or like public purposes. The following areas are designated as Wood County Parks or managed by the Park and Forestry Committee:

1. Enclosed Shelter House Closing Time. The area known as the Enclosed Shelter House area of designated Wood County Parks will have an official closing time of 12:00 midnight and shall re-open the following 8:00 a.m.

2. After Hours by Permit. All individuals authorized by Park issued permits shall be exempted from the aforementioned, pursuant to said terms of said permit.

B. After Hours at Boat Landings. Persons transporting watercraft

to and from designated boat landings are permitted at any hour in

South Wood County, Dexter County, Nepco Lake County Parks, and

Devils Elbow boatlanding area.

2. Snowmobiles and All Terrain Vehicles. Snowmobiles and All Terrain Vehicles (ATV's) will be allowed on designated trails only.

3. Public and Campground Boat Landings. Designated public boat landings may be used at any time for access to the lakes. Campground boat landings are designated for camper's use only.

4. Campground Opening and Closing Dates. Designated camping areas in Dexter County Park, North Wood County Park and South Wood County Park will open for camping on May 1 and will remain open until November 30.

Except when May 1, falls on Saurday, Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday, camping will open on the preceding Friday.

5. Ski Parking Lots. Designated ski touring trails and skiing parking lots will remain open for skiing purposes, pursuant to posting by the Wood County Park and Forestry Department.

6. Powers Bluff Winter Sports Area. Powers Bluff Winter Sports Area facilities will remain open during supervised hours subject to change, pursuant to weather conditions.

B. Special Fees. Any park structure, facility, or area other than the above, may be reserved or rented for special purposes subject to the approval of the Committee. The Committee, at its' discretion, may set the charge for this facility.

B. Permits. Any person to whom a permit shall have been issued by the Park Administrator or other authorized park personnel, shall be bound by the provisions of all Ordinances of Wood County as fully as though the same were inserted in each permit.

C. Exceptions. Nothing in this code shall prohibit or hinder the Wood County Park and Forestry Committee of Wood County,Wisconsin, its Administrator, Park Caretakers, or other duly authorized agents, or any peace officers from performing their official duties.

A. Special Use Permits. Any person desiring to hold a public meeting of any kind whatsoever, in any park shall first obtain a permit from the Committee or its duly authorized agent. The permit must be applied for not less than 48 hours prior to the scheduled event.

B. Permits For Public Assembly. Permits will be granted for the purpose of holding any lawful public assembly in accordance with published regulations governing the reasonable use of the parks.

(2) Peddling and Soliciting. It shall be unlawful for any person to peddle or solicit business of any nature whatever, or to distribute handbills or other advertising matter, to post unauthorized signs or decorative matter on any lands, structures or property as a base of commercial operations for soliciting or conducting business, peddling or providing services within or outside of such lands, structures, or property unless first authorized in writing by the Wood County Park and Forestry Committee or its duly authorized agent.

A. Soliciting Boat Rides. It shall be unlawful to use in any manner the dock, pier, wharf, boat landing, mooring facilities in, or on the waters in or immediately adjacent to, any County Park for the purpose of soliciting rides of any kind unless authorized by the Committee.

B. No Boats at North Wood County Park. No boats with motors or sailboats will be allowed on waters within North Wood County Park.

(2) Property of Others. It shall be unlawful for any person to destroy, disturb, molest, or remove the property or personal effects of others.

(3) Unnecessary Noise. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate sound trucks, loud speakers, motors, motorboats, motor vehicles or any other mechanical devices that produce undue or unnecessary noises without first obtaining a written permit from the Committee or its duly authorized agent.

A. Destruction, Defacement, or Removal. It shall be unlawful for any person to disturb, molest, deface, remove, or destroy any trees, shrubs, plants, or other natural growth; to carve on any rocks, archaeological or geological features, signs, walls or structures; to drive nails in trees; or to move, injure or deface in any manner any structures including buildings, sign, fences, tables, or other County property. The picking of edible fruits or nuts is permitted.

B. Entry and Manipulation. It shall be unlawful for any person to enter in any building, installation, or area that may be under construction or locked or closed to public use; or to molest or manipulate any water control structure, dam, or culvert; or to enter or be upon any building, installation or area after the posted closing time or before the posted opening time, or contrary to posted notice, in any park.

C. Cleaning and Refuse.

1. Washing. The washing of cars, persons, pets, cooking utensils, or clothing, is prohibited in any of the lakes or streams, on any picnic grounds, playgrounds, recreation areas, boat landings, parking lots or roadways, or within 50 feet of any pump, fountain, or drinking water outlet in any County Park. The washing of persons, cooking utensils and clothing shall be permitted at designated campgrounds, or at other authorized and posted locations.

2. Fish and Game Cleaning. It shall be unlawful for any person to clean, butcher, scale, or skin any fish, game, livestock, or poultry in any County Park except at designated fish-cleaning tables provided for such purposes. Refuse from such cleaning operations must be suitably wrapped or packaged and deposited in the refuse containers provided for that purpose.

3. Refuse.

a. Unlawful Disposal of Garbage in County Parks. It shall be unlawful for any person to dispose of any garbage, sewage, bottles, tin cans, paper, or other waste material in any manner except by placing in receptacles provided for such purposes, or to dump any such refuse in any park. Throwing of bottles, tin cans, garbage, sewage, or other refuse in or on the ice of any lake or stream, or along roads in any County Park is prohibited.

b. Disposal of Hot Charcoal. Charcoal residue must be left in a grate or fireplace until cool, or placed in receptacles provided for such purposes.

A. Speed Limits in County Parks. No person shall operate any vehicle at a speed in excess of 15 miles per hour or contrary to official traffic signs in any County Park.

B. Reckless Use of A Vehicle In County Parks. No person shall operate any vehicle in any Park in a reckless manner contrary to the provisions of Section 346.62 of the Wisconsin Statutes.

C. Unlawful Operating or Parking of Vehicles. It shall be unlawful to operate or park any motor vehicle, except as provided for herein, upon any hiking trail, beach area, playground, picnic area, or any other area other than established roads, parking areas, boat ramps and service areas, or contrary to posted notice, or with any Park seasonally closed to vehicular traffic.

D. Designated Trails. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any motor driven sled, toboggan, all terrain vehicle (ATV) or other snowmobile in any County Park, except on designated trails.

E. Unlicensed Motorized Vehicles. No person shall operate any unlicensed motorized vehicle in any County Park on roads, trails, or otherwise.

(2) Parking.

A. Unlawful Parking, Stopping. It shall be unlawful for any person to park, stop, or leave standing whether attended or unattended, any vehicle, obstruction or watercraft in any manner;

1. As to block, obstruct, or limit the use of any road, trail, parking lot, boat landing, waterway or winter sport facility, or:

2. outside of any area provided for such purposes when it is practical to use such areas, or

3. contrary to posted notice, or

4. in any park area between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and the following 8:00 a.m. except that vehicle or watercraft owned by registered campers residing in adjacent campgrounds are permitted. Vehicles used to transport watercraft are permitted at designated boat landings at South Wood County Park, Dexter Park and Nepco Lake Park at any time.

B. Violation of this Section. Persons to whom a summons has been issued for violating this section of the Ordinance may enter into a stipulation of guilt with Wood County by posting the sum of $10.00 with the Wood County Sheriff's Department, within 48 hours after the issuance of a summons or citation. Violators of this section who do not timely post said sum as a forfeiture shall be punished as provided in Section 600.11 (2) of the Park Ordinance.

A. Unlawful Fires. It shall be unlawful for any person to start, tend, or maintain any fire, or to burn any refuse, except at designated fireplaces, fire rings, or grills within any County Park, except that, fires for cooking or heating may be made in portable stoves, heaters, or grills at designated campgrounds and picnic areas and,

B. Unattended Fires. It shall be unlawful for any person to leave any fire unattended, or to throw away any matches, cigarettes, cigars, or pipe ashes or any embers without first extinguishing them, or to abandon any fire, or to start, tend, or use in any manner any fire contrary to posted notice in any County Park.

(2) Fireworks, Rockets, Explosive Devices. It shall be unlawful for any person to possess, fire, discharge, explode or set off any squib, cracker, or other explosive or pyrotechnic device containing powder, or other combustible or explosive material, within the limits of any County Park, excepting that exhibitions of fireworks given under the direction or by the permission of the Committee or its duly authorized agent are permitted.

(3) Firearms. It shall be unlawful for any person to have in his possession or under his control any firearm, airgun, or gas operated gun as defined in Section 939.22, Wisconsin Statutes, unless the same is unloaded and enclosed in a carrying case in any County Park, except for designated areas for archery.

In other County Park areas and campgrounds pets are permitted provided they shall at all times be kept on a leash not more than 10 feet long. All pets shall be effectively restrained or under the owner's control at all times. No person shall allow his pet to deprive or disrupt the enjoyment or use of any area by others.

(2) Horses. It shall be unlawful for any person to ride a horse or have a horse in any Wood County Park without authorization of Park attendant.

(3) Hunting and Trapping. It shall be unlawful for any person to take, catch, kill, hunt, trap, pursue or otherwise disturb any wild animals or birds in any County park.

A. Exception. South of Highway 54, in Dexter County Park.

(2) Skating. It shall be unlawful for any person to skate in any form or fashion including blade skating on roads in any part of the Park system in a reckless manner, or at a speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the number of people in such part of the Park system and the use thereof, or so as to endanger life or limb, or damage the property of any person; provided, however, that nothing therein contained, shall be construed to prohibit any exhibition of or contests in fast or fancy skating on such portions of any ice pond as may be set aside for that purpose by the Committee.

Nepco County Park Beach.

South Wood County Park, Red Beach.

South Wood County Park, White Beach.

North Wood County Park Beach.

Lake Dexter County Park Beach.

(2) Designation of Swimming Areas. The Wood County Park Administrator shall determine what areas of public swimming beaches set forth in section 600.09 (1) shall be used for swimming and when. The Park Administrator shall provide reasonable notice to the public in establishing swimming areas and times. Those parts of public swimming beaches used as swimming areas shall be marked with buoys which meet the standards set in Wisconsin Administrative Code NR 5.09, at any time the swimming areas are open for swimming.

(3) Food and Beverages. It shall be unlawful for any person to carry or consume any food or beverages of any kind on any bathing beach or in the water adjacent to any bathing beach in any County Park except in designated areas.

(4) Boundary Buoys Molestation. It shall be unlawful to swim beyond or disturb or molest a bathing beach boundary buoy or marker in any County Park.

(5) Storms and Swimming Area Limits. It shall be unlawful for any person to:

A. swim, wade or bathe within 150 yards of any designated beach, except within the designated swimming, bathing wading area of the beach.

B. swim, wade or bathe in the water fronting any bathing beach during electrical storms or in dangerous weather, or

C. swim, wade or bathe within 50 feet of any dam within the County Park system.

D. swim, wade or bathe within 50 feet of any boat landing.

(6) Beach Athletics. Except in locations designated for such purposes, it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in any athletic game or sport, or in any activity upon a bathing beach or in the water, when injury or inconvenience to others might result there from.

(7) Bathing Dress. It shall be unlawful for any swimmer or bather to enter the water or onto any bathing beach, unless clothed in a suitable bathing dress or suit. The object of this section is to prevent nudity.

A. Changing Clothing. It shall be unlawful for any person to change clothes, except in beach house or other enclosed places.

B. Infectious Diseases. Any person having, or apparently having, any infectious disease shall be prohibited from entering onto any bathing beach or into any bathing house, or waters adjacent thereto.

A. Camping or Camp. The use of a shelter such as a tent, trailer, motor vehicle, tarpaulin, bed roll or sleeping bag for temporary residence or sleeping purposes.

B. Designated Campground. Any tract of land designated exclusively for camping.

C. Camping or Camp. The use of a shelter such as a tent, trailer, motor vehicle, tarpaulin, bed roll or sleeping bag for temporary residence or sleeping purposes.

D. Group Campground. A campground designated for use by organizational or minor group.

E. Campsite. A segment of a campground which is designated for camping use by a camping unit or camping party.

F. Camping-Unit. A single shelter except sleeping bags and hammocks used for a camp by a camping party except those used exclusively for dining purposes.

G. Camping Party. Any individual, family, individual group or minor group occupying a campsite.

H. Family. A parent or parents with their children and not more than two lineal relatives or not more than two minor guests.

I. Minor Group. A group made up of minor members of an established organization and under the leadership of at least one competent, mature adult for each 10 minors in the group and using any number of camping units or occupying a group campground.

J. Individual Group. A camping party of not more than 10 persons occupying one camping unit.

K. Enclosed Shelter. Any building or structure capable of being closed to public access, and reserved for public or private group activities.

1. Powers Bluff Park. Camping is prohibited in Powers Bluff Park, except by special permission of the Committee or authorized agent.

2. Designated Areas. Camping is prohibited in all County Parks except in designated campgrounds and designated campsites.

B. Camping Limited-Designated Campgrounds. No person shall camp and no camping unit shall remain in a designated campground for a period greater than 21 days from May 1 to October 31. Thereafter, the camping unit must be removed from the property for at least two days before being eligible to return.

C. Campsite Occupancy. It shall be unlawful for more than one family or individual group to occupy more than a single campsite in a designated campground.

D. Campsite Changes. No registered camping party shall move from its assigned campsite to another campsite in designated campground without prior approval.

E. Camping Permit Expiration. All camping permits expire at 3:00 p.m. on the last day of the permit period.

F. Camping Permit Extensions. Extensions within the 21 day limit may be granted on camping permits. Extensions must be obtained prior to 10:00 a.m. on the expiration date of the permit.

C. Campsite Entry Hours. No camping party shall start setting up or taking down its camping unit between the hours of 12:00 midnight and the following 8:00 a.m., without authorization of the Park attendant, or in case of emergency.

H. Campsite Parking. It shall be unlawful to park any motor vehicle outside the parking area designated at each campsite and not more than two motor vehicles are permitted to any campsite.

I. Campsite Reservations. Reservations will not be accepted for campsites in any County picnic grounds or other County Parks recreation areas, or established campground except that organized groups may be given reservations for use of campgrounds.

J.Camping Permit - Issuance.

(2) Penalties. Any person, firm company or corporation who violates the regulations set forth in this Ordinance, or rules and regulations made by the Park and Forestry Committee, shall be subject to a forfeiture of not less than $10.00 nor more than $200.00 together with the costs of the action and in default of payment thereof to imprisonment in the County jail until such forfeiture and costs be paid, but not more than thirty days pursuant to law, except as provided by Section 600.05 (2) A. 2.

(3) Arrest Powers. Any peace officer of Wood County, or any of its municipal subdivisions, may without a warrant arrest any offender whom he may detect in the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, and take the person arrested forthwith before a magistrate having competent jurisdiction, and he shall have at all times the right to enter the premises of any County building, structure, or enclosure in any Park or parkway, including such grounds, buildings, structures, or enclosure which may be leased or set aside for private or exclusive use of any individual or group of individuals, for the purpose of determining that there is compliance with this ordinance and the rules and regulations made by the Committee, and may use all necessary means to attain that end.

(4) Authority. County Park personnel authorized to do so by the Committee may issue civil summonses for violations committed in their presence of this Ordinance, or rules or regulations made by the

Committee and shall have at all times the right to enter the premises of any County building, structure, or enclosure in any Park or parkway, including such grounds, buildings, structures, or enclosures which may be leased or set aside for private or exclusive use of any individual or group of individuals for the purpose of determining that there is compliance with this Ordinance and the rules and regulations made by the Committee, and may use all necessary means to attain that end.

(2) Repeals. All Ordinances and parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith, are repeals.

(3) Invalidation. Invalidation of any one of the sub-sections of this Ordinance, by judgement or court order, shall in no way effect any of the other provisions thereof which shall remain in full force and effect.