Every city-county park and recreation commission created by this act shall have all the powers necessary or convenient for the accomplishment of the purpose and provisions hereof, including, in addition to others herein granted, the following powers, all of which shall be exercised subject to approval by the governing body of the city and the board of county commissioners:
(a) To establish a city-county park and/or recreation system including, but not limited to, in combination or singly, facilities as parks, parkways, playgrounds, playfields, swimming pools, stadiums, social or community centers, arboreta, botanical gardens, conservatories, museums, preserves, wildlife areas, zoological gardens, other recreation areas and areas of scenic, historic or archaeologic interest, and lands reserved for flood conditions for impounding runoff water or for other conservation purposes.
(b) To adopt such rules and regulations for the operation of the recreation system as may be deemed necessary or expedient.
(c) To purchase, lease, or otherwise acquire land or buildings or portions of buildings for recreation purposes.
(d) To erect, maintain, and operate public recreation buildings or facilities at one or more places within or beyond the corporate limits of any county, city, town or school district in the recreation system.
(e) To accept transfer of any existing public recreation facility or facilities by lease or other conveyance.
(f) To acquire by purchase or otherwise equipment and other personal property customarily used in the operation of public recreation facilities, including necessary motor vehicles.
(g) To sell and dispose of personal property acquired by purchase or other means when by proper resolution the commission finds that said property is not needed for recreation purposes.
(h) To accept, hold, and convey legal title to interests in real property in the name "City-County Park and Recreation Commission of _______ County", which shall be its official name. Deeds or other conveyances of said interests in real property shall be executed for and on behalf of the commission by the chairman and shall be attested by the secretary, only after authorization by resolution of the governing body of the city and the board of county commissioners.
(i) To accept or in its discretion to decline donations tendered to the city-county park and/or recreation system.
Added by Laws 1965, c. 335, § 8, emerg. eff. June 28, 1965.
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