§ 27. Powers and duties.  


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  • (a)

    Said commission shall have exclusive care, management and control of all parks owned by the town. Said commission shall have power to receive, on behalf of the town, gifts, donations or devises of land or other property for park purposes, subject to the approval of a duly called representative town meeting the dollar amount set by the board of selectmen as prescribed in chapter 2, article II, section 2-33 of this Code.

    (b)

    Said commission shall have exclusive power to determine the places in such parks or parkways where sewer, gas, water or other pipes or conduits for such or other purposes may be laid, and where telegraph, telephone, electric or other wires may be run, and where posts or other supports therefor may be erected, and where tracks may be laid, and no such pipe, conduit, wire, support or track shall be laid, constructed or erected without the consent in writing by said commission, designating the manner, style and places therefor and the method of maintenance thereof, which designation may from time to time be changed as said commission may in writing prescribe.

    (c)

    Said commission may authorize the preparation of all necessary surveys, maps or plans, in connection with the acquisition, maintenance, operation and management of such parks and parkways, and may file any survey, map or plan so prepared by it, or under its direction, in the office of the town clerk, who shall index the same against all property included therein or the owners thereof, provided such survey, map or plan after completion shall have been approved at a duly called meeting of the commission. Such map or plan shall have inscribed thereon the following: "Adopted by the Darien Park and Recreation Commission" and shall bear the date of such adoption, and shall be signed by the chairman of said commission.

(Ord. of 6-12-2007(2))