Youngstown, OH Curfew Laws: Park Curfew (2026)

Youngstown Codified Ordinances § 541.13(a) prohibits entering upon any City land used for park and recreation purposes except during the hours of operation as established and posted by the Park and Recreation Commission. Rather than writing a fixed curfew hour into the ordinance itself, the section delegates the schedule to the Commission and ties the legal boundary to whatever hours are actually posted at each park, meaning enforcement depends on the posted signage at the specific park property. Section 541.13(b) sets the penalty: whoever violates the section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree, the same grade as offenses like § 541.06 destruction of shrubs, trees, or crops and § 541.11 trespassing on school property elsewhere in Chapter 541's Property Offenses chapter.

The section traces to Ordinance 86-578, passed September 17, 1986, the same day Council passed the companion school-trespass ordinance at § 541.11. Enforcement of after-hours park entry falls to the Youngstown Police Department, which relies on the Commission's posted signage to establish the operative hours at issue in any given case; the ordinance does not itself list a citywide closing time such as dusk or a specific o'clock, so the posted sign at the park in question controls whether entry outside those hours is unlawful.

This section sits within Chapter 541, Property Offenses, of the General Offenses Code, alongside other real-property trespass sections such as § 541.12 (trespassing on lawns) and § 541.05 (criminal trespass).