New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 21 - Miscellaneous › Chapter LXXI - Battery Park City Authority › Part 9003 - Parks Rules And Regulations Of The Battery Park City Authority And The Battery Park City Parks Corporation › Section 9003.31 - Assemblies, meetings, exhibitions, etc

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) No person shall
				hold or sponsor any contest, exhibit, public entertainment, parade, parade
				review, athletic contest, dramatic reading, storytelling, poetry reading,
				picnic, or other similar activity, in any park, including any park street,
				without a permit, unless fewer than 20 individuals may reasonably be expected
				to be in attendance.
(b) No person
				shall hold any public meeting or assembly or perform any ceremony or make a
				speech, address or oration, or other similar activity when more than 20 persons
				may reasonably be expected to be in attendance in any park, including any park
				street, without a permit.
(c) No
				person shall erect any structure, stand, booth, platform, or exhibit in
				connection with any assembly, meeting, exhibition or other event without
				approval of ParksCorp or the BPCA.
(d) Upon application, ParksCorp may deny a
				permit for such assembly, meeting, exhibition, speech, ceremony, contest,
				public entertainment, picnic, parade, parade review or other similar activity
				or event if:
(1) the proposed event is not
				consistent with these rules, the plaza regulations or policies of ParksCorp or
				the BPCA for events or activities;
(2) the proposed event would interfere with
				the use and enjoyment of any of the parks, including any park street, or the
				plaza or adjacent public areas by the public, or property immediately adjacent
				to the parks;
(3) the location
				sought is not suitable because of landscaping, planting, or other environmental
				conditions reasonably likely to be harmed by the proposed event;
(4) the location sought is not suitable
				because it is a specialized area, because of the design or structure of any of
				the parks, including any park street, including fountains, artworks or other
				decorative improvements, facilities, fixtures or equipment, or because the
				proposed event is of such nature or duration that it cannot reasonably be
				accommodated in that location;
(5)
				the date and time requested have previously been allotted by permit or an
				activity or event, or work, including construction, reconstruction,
				restoration, staging of work, repairs and maintenance, is scheduled for any
				area in or adjacent to any of the parks, including any park street, or the
				plaza or in the WFC at a time when there would be interference or operational
				difficulties caused by the occurrence simultaneously or at approximately the
				same time of such events;
(6) the
				proposed event will present a clear and present danger to the public health and
				safety;
(7) within the preceding
				four years, the applicant has been granted a permit or the equivalent with
				respect to any park, including any park street, or park of the City or State of
				New York and did, on that prior occasion, knowingly violate a material term or
				condition of the permit or equivalent, or any law, ordinance, statute or
				regulation relating to the use of the parks or any such other parks;
(8) there are substantially similar
				alternatives elsewhere in the parks, or the parks of the city of New York;
				or
(9) there are other areas
				reasonably available for such use in parks under the jurisdiction of the New
				York City Department of Parks and Recreation or the New York State Office of
				Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.