Cheektowaga, NY Special Events & Permits: Park Event Permits (2026)

' Once a permit issues, the same section bars any other person from disturbing or interfering with the permitted party's occupancy of that picnic area. The permit sits alongside § 174-4, which independently restricts picnicking Town-wide to 'those places authorized therefor,' meaning informal picnicking is limited to designated picnic areas even without an exclusive-use permit, and an exclusive permit is the mechanism for reserving one of those areas against the general public. Section 174-8 layers on separate conditions for dogs at park events, restricting them from John C.

Stiglmeier Park and Cheektowaga Town Park and requiring a six-foot leash elsewhere, which organizers of a permitted picnic or gathering need to account for. Section 174-13 further restricts alcohol at any permitted gathering: no open containers or consumption by anyone under 21, and no consumption at all except by those over 21 picnicking specifically in Town Park or John C. Stiglmeier Park during regular hours. Permitted use is also bounded by the park closing hours in § 174-14, which close all parks between sunset and sunrise except around lighted ball diamonds in active play, so an exclusive picnic permit does not extend a gathering past those hours. As with other Article I park rules, enforcement of the exclusive-use permit runs through § 174-19.