Wis. Admin. Code State Fair Park Board SFP 4.04 - Non-commercial handbill distribution, picketing, and demonstration

(1) The purposes of this rule are:

(a) To insure necessary order in the park, preserve the flow of pedestrian and vehicle traffic, and protect the safety and well-being of all park visitors; and

(b) To insure that the constitutional rights of individual visitors to the park are preserved by reasonable, uniform, and nondiscriminatory regulation given the limited facilities and periodic extreme congestion of the park.

(2) No person(s) shall picket, or participate in a demonstration or protest gathering or march in the park without prior notification of the chief of police or his or her designee. The chief of police shall inform the person(s) seeking to engage in the above activities of the authorized areas of the park within which such activity may be conducted. The chief of police shall designate areas of the park within which such activity can be conducted. The designation of such areas shall be consistent with the objectives expressed in sub. (1)(a) and (b) and shall afford the person(s) with reasonable public contact. The requesting person, hereinafter call `applicant,' shall register by name and provide identification. The chief of police shall allocate the predetermined authorized areas among the applicants for such use on a daily, first-come, first-serve, non-discriminatory, and uniform basis. The applicant shall then be permitted to occupy the assigned area for the duration of that day.

(4) Applicant shall observe all rules of the park and shall be responsible for all litter generated that day within the assigned area; failure to remove litter or other material shall result in a five-day bar to further space request.

(5) The applicant shall not erect any structure or place any item of furniture or other material on the assigned space other than signs without approval of the chief of police or his or her designee. Use of bullhorns or public address systems is not permitted.

(6) Violation of any state law, or rule of the park by the applicant or his agents shall be cause for the termination of the privilege to occupy that area, expulsion from the park or civil forfeiture or both.

(7) A copy of this rule shall be provided to each applicant of space by the chief of police or his or her designee.

(8) This rule applies only to noncommercial activities. The park makes available space for commercial endeavors on a contract or lease basis.

Notes

Wis. Admin. Code State Fair Park Board SFP 4.04

Cr. Register, July, 1976, No. 247, eff. 8-1-76; emerg. r. (2) and (3), cr. (2), eff. 7-29-78; r. (2) and (3), cr. (2), Register, December, 1978, No. 276, eff. 1-1-79; emerg. am. (2) and (5) to (8), eff. 8-2-95; am. (2) and (5) to (8), Register, September, 1996, No. 489, eff. 10-1-96.