Chapter 12 · Public Property

Article 3. Roller Hockey Rink and Skateboard Facility

Sections 12-301 to 12-305 · 5 sections

12-301 Reserved.

(Ord. 947; Code 2021)

12-302 Application of article.

The requirements for the use of safety equipment as set forth herein below shall apply and be enforced by the City of Park City in the course of any game, play, or practice of roller hockey, or any other roller blading, skateboarding and/or skating on property owned or maintained by the City of Park City, including but not limited to, the Park City Roller Hockey Rink and the Kathleen Woodard Skateboard Facility.

12-303 Required safety equipment.

Each person under the age of fourteen engaged in the play, practice, or a game of roller hockey, engaged in skateboarding or similarly described activity shall not engage in the same except in conjunction with the use of the following described safety equipment otherwise certified and approved for use by an official or advisory body on the national level as it regards to roller hockey.

(a)Helmet with chin strap;

(b)Protective gloves;

(c)Chest protector;

(d)Elbow pads;

(e)Knee pads;

(f)Shin guards.

Each person, regardless of his or her age, upon engaging in any other roller blading, skateboarding and/or skating activity on property owned or maintained by the City of Park City, shall at all times engaged in such activity have affixed to their head a helmet secured by a chin strap. Said helmet shall be of a style, configuration, and shape approved for use in whatever skating, skateboarding or roller blading activity that is being engaged in by the appropriate certifying or endorsing organization.

12-304 Prohibited equipment.

No person, regardless of their age, shall attempt to play at roller hockey, roller blading or skateboarding on playing surfaces or property owned or maintained by the City of Park City with equipment not approved for use in roller hockey, roller blading or skateboarding. If equipment sought to be used by a user of facilities in Park City is not on a nationally approved list of equipment identified by a governing or regulating agency of roller hockey or skateboarding, then that equipment shall not be utilized in the play of roller hockey, skateboarding or similar sport activities on city property.

(Ord. 947; Code 2021)

12-305 Penalties.

(a)The use of non-approved equipment by a person fourteen years of age or older on city owned and/or maintained property shall, upon conviction, result in a fine of not less than $20.00 and not more than $100.00, as well as court costs, and said offender may be barred from the use of city roller hockey facilities for up to one year. The barring of a person from the use of roller hockey facilities in Park City shall not occur unless, upon the conviction of the Defendant, there is correspondingly a recommendation from the Park City Park Board that said individual, based on all of the involved circumstances, be barred from said facilities. The Park Board’s recommendation shall be directed to the Municipal Court Judge, who shall retain the discretion as to if and for what period of time to suspend or to bar said individual from the use of said facilities.

(b)Failure to wear required safety equipment: In the event an individual under the age of fourteen is found to be in violation of this article, said individual shall be barred from further use of Park City’s roller hockey facilities until proof that acquisition of the necessary safety equipment has been presented to the Court. In the event that an individual under the age of fourteen, having once been adjudicated as violating this article repeat the same or similar violation, then the said parent(s) and/or guardian(s) of the said minor child shall be cited with a failure to provide and/or to insure the use of the proper safety equipment by said child. Said parent(s) and/or guardian(s) shall be subject to the penalty and the fine of not less than $20.00 and not more than $100.00, as well as court cost. In the event any other person is found to have not employed and utilized the safety helmet called for herein above, said person shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than $20.00 and not more than $200.00. Said individual may be further barred from use of city owned or maintained facilities as called for and described above.