§ 20. Parks, playgrounds, etc.  


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  • The City of Irving shall be authorized to acquire land for parks and playgrounds by gift, deed, devise, condemnation, lease, purchase or otherwise and to have exclusive control of all city parks and playgrounds, whether within or without the city limits, and to control, regulate and remove all obstructions and prevent all encroachments thereupon; to provide for raising, grading, filling, terracing, landscape gardening, erecting buildings, swimming pools and wading pools, and other structures, providing amusements therein, for establishing walks and paving driveways around, in and through said parks, playgrounds, and other public grounds, speedways, or boulevards owned by it, and lying both outside and inside the municipal boundaries.

(Ord. No. 5567, § 3, 1-23-89)