(A) For the promotion and protection of the public health, safety, convenience and general welfare of the citizens and residents of the City, the City Council hereby adopts an ordinance to close Friendship Park, and other City parks, as the aforementioned considerations may warrant and apply, in order to provide for the safekeeping of Friendship Park and other City parks.

(B) The ordinance codified in this section is hereby adopted in order to give full legal force and effect to Ordinance 18, passed and adopted by the City Council on September 23, 1981. (Ord. 22 §§ 1, 2, passed 2-10-1982. Code 2012 § 94.01.)