Bellevue, NE Curfew Laws: Park Curfew (2026)

Section 21-23, Closing Time, carried over from the 1964 Code as § 15A-14, sets a single citywide rule for Bellevue's parks, playgrounds and municipal cemeteries: unless otherwise provided and posted, all of those areas close to the public at 10:00 p.m. every day. The section builds in two ways around that default. First, a specific park or facility can post different hours, which then control in place of the general 10:00 p.m. rule. Second, the parks superintendent, or a supervised or organized activity sponsored by the city recreation department, can be granted an exception to stay open past closing, which covers scheduled league games, city-run programs and similar sanctioned events rather than open public use.

The rule sits in Chapter 21 alongside § 21-9's trespassing ban for posted 'No Admittance' or 'No Trespassing' areas and § 21-22's ban on alcohol in parks, park facilities and cemeteries, with a carved-out exception for the reserved Haworth Park Campgrounds, Haworth Park Shelters and the Bellevue Marina, so a person in a park after 10:00 p.m. without a posted exception or recreation-department authorization can be charged for being present after closing separately from any trespassing or alcohol violation that also applies. No specific fine is written into § 21-23, so the Code's general penalty, § 1-11, controls.