1975-18Bill No. 1975-18
AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER IV OF THE
ORDINANCE CODE OF THE CITY OF
RICHFIELD ADDING SECTION 4.15
CITY OF RICHFIELD DOES ORDAIN:
Chapter IV of the Ordinance Code of the City of Richfield, Minnesota
is hereby amended by adding Section 4.15 relating to the hitting of golf
balls in the public parks and other public places and providing for penalties
for such activity which reads as follows:
"4,15 REGULATING GOLF IN PUBLIC PARKS
Subdivision 1. Definitions. The following terms shall have the
meanings ascribed to them in this section:
(1) 'Golf ball' means a ball which is of the type used to play
the game of golf and shall also include any projectile of
solid construction capable of being struck or propelled by
a golf club,
(2) 'Practice golf ball' means a ball which is not of the type
used to play the game of golf and is composed of a thin hollow
sphere of plastic or other similar light weight material.
Subd. 2. Hitting of Golf Balls Prohibited, No persons shall hit,
drive, stroke or otherwise propel a golf ball upon, in, over or across
any street, avenue, alley or other public place including public parks
except within areas of public parks which have been designated for such
activity.
Subd. 3. Hitting of Practice Golf Balls Prohibited. No person
shall hit, drive, stroke or otherwise propel a practice golf ball upon,
in, over or across any street, avenue, alley or other public place except
public parks.
Subd, 4. Hitting of Practice Golf Balls in Public Parks. Unless the
hitting of practice golf balls is specifically prohibited in a public park,
any person may hit, drive, stroke, or otherwise propel such practice ~o1f
balls in accordance with the following restrictions:
(1) The ball may not be hit from or to any location closer than
100 feet from the park boundary,
(2) The ball may not be hit from or into any location closer than
~. 100 feet from any playground, tot lot, picnic area, walking
or biking trail, parking lot, building, structure or lake
within the park.
~3) The ball may not be hit from or into any location closer than
100 feet from any playground, tot lot, picnic area, walking or
biking trail, parking lot, building, structure or lake within
the park.
(4) Ba11s may not be hit from or into the Woodlake Nature Center.
Subd. 5. Violations: Penalties. Any person who shall violate any
of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a petty misdemeanor
for the first violation and may be sentenced to payment of a fine not to
exceed $100.00. A second or subsequent violation without limitation to
time shall be a misdemeanor."
Passed by the City Council of the City of Richfield, Minnesota, this
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10th day of November, 1975.
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(Official Publication)
LE ;AL NOTICE
SUN NEWSPAPERS
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
RICHFIELD ,S'UN
6601 W. 78th St.
State of Minnesota
County of Hennepin
SS.
Bloomington, Minnesota
J. R. RITCHAY, being duly sworn, on oath says he is and during all times here stated
has been the vice president and printer of the newspaper known as The Richfield Sun
and has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: (1) Said newspaper
is printed in the English language in newspaper format and in column and sheet form
equivalent in printed space to at least 900 square inches. (2) Said newspaper is a weekly and
is distributed at least once each week. (3) Said newspaper has 50% of its news columns devoted
to news of local interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not wholly
duplicate any other publication and is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and
advertisements. (4) Said newspaper is circulated in and near the municipality which it purports
to serve, has at least 500 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, has an average of
at least 75% of its total circulation currently paid or no more than three months in arrears
,.and has entry as second-class matter in its local post-office. (5) Said newspaper purports to
e the City of Richfield in the County of Hennepin and it has its known office of
e in the City of Bloomington in said county, established and open during its regular business
s for the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscriptions and main-
ed by the managing officer or persons in its employ and subject to his direction and con-
trol during all such regular business hours and devoted exclusively during such regular
business hours to the business of the newspaper and business related' thereto. (6) 'Said news-
paper files a copy of each issue immediately with the State Historical Society. (7) Said news-
paper has complied with all the foregoing conditions for at least two years preceding the day
or dates of publication mentioned below. (8) Said newspaper has filed with the Secretary of
State of Minnesota prior to January 1, 1966 and each January 1 thereafter an affidavit in the
form prescribed by the Secretary of State and signed by the publisher of said newspaper and
sworn to before a notary public stating that the newspaper is a leKal newspaper.
He further states on oath that the printed ~1~1- N0. 197j-18
hereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed
and published therein in the English language, once each week, for dYlB successive weeks;
that it was first so published on T~3~ the 19 day of NCV9:ittJt'I' ~ ig~
and was thereafter printed and published on every to and including
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:the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being
size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice, to-wit:
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Public, Hennepin County, Minn.
gyres July 28t'h, 1978
OF
ttT~C, ,, S,OR-
ot. c~ttyof ltichfield is amended by
a Section 4.15 relating td the hit-
dn(;~olf balls in the public parks
an Eher public places and providing
for peit8lties for such activity which
rea~isstis'follows:
4.7x5 REGULATING GQ~':F'- IN
PT~83- I`C PARKS
~'~division i. DehhR its ~~'he'
ng 'terms shall ave the'
triet(o ngs ascribed to therm ~q,thls ,
zllection:
`' 111 'Golf tiall mean ,a Ball
which is of the type u§g~ to piny .
,the game of golf and, sit&il;alsoin-
ehtde any pr@jec(ite of soltd'cen-
structioti capable of bei;tgg,;strtick
of propelled by a gaff c11ib:
IEI"Practice golf ba(C tpeBttes
`ball which is not of lhr type used
to play.the game of go1P'and is
composed of a thin hollow sphere
of,.pla$tic or other similar light
a: weight meteriai.
' Subd. Y. Hitting of Golf Balls
Prohibited. No person shall hit,
drive, stroke or otherwise propel
a golf ball upon, in, over or across
any street, avenue, alley or other
public place including public
parks except within areas of pub-
lic parks which have been desig-
nated for such activity.
Subd. 3. Hitting or Practice
Golf Balls Prohibited. No person
shall hit, drive, stroke or other-
wise propel a' practice golf ball