§ 13.24.140. Wildlife, plants, and natural resources.

A.

All wildlife within the boundaries of a city park is protected. No person may harm, harass, hunt, trap or remove any animal including mammals, fish, insects, birds, reptiles, or other living creature from any city park except upon written approval of the director of the department. The prohibition pertaining to fish shall not apply where fishing is permitted by an individual in possession of a valid Texas fishing license.

B.

All plantlife within the boundaries of a city park is protected. No person shall willfully mutilate, injure, burn, destroy, thrash, or remove any live tree, shrub, vine, wildflower, grass, sedge, fern, moss, lichen, fungus or any other member of the plant kingdom or portion thereof, except upon written approval of the director of the department. No person shall collect or harvest dead wood or plants, or portions thereof, except upon written approval. The collecting of nuts, seeds and pods on the ground is allowed; the thrashing of trees and shrubs is prohibited.

C.

All sites, objects, buildings, artifacts, implements, and locations of historical, archaeological, geologic, scientific or educational interest of every character located in, on or under the surface of any city park are protected. No person may remove excavate, take, dig into, or destroy any site, object, building, artifact, implement or location of archaeological, geological, scientific or historical interest without having permits as required by the State of Texas Natural Resources Codes, and without having written permission of the director of the department.

D.

No person may cut, gather, or collect wood or other combustible material at any city park for use as firewood or fuel except for material designated for this purpose by the director of the department.

E.

This section does not apply to city employees performing their assigned duties.

(Ord. No. 17845, § 1, 7-31-2012)