[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR7.29]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 7--SPECIAL REGULATIONS, AREAS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM--Table 
of Contents
 
Sec. 7.29  Gateway National Recreation Area.

    (a) Operation of motor vehicles. The operation of motor vehicles, 
other than authorized emergency vehicles, is prohibited outside of 
established public roads and parking areas, except on beaches and 
oversand routes designated by the Superintendent by the posting of 
appropriate signs and identified on maps available at the office of the 
Superintendent. These beaches and routes will be designated after 
consideration of the criteria contained in sections 3 and 4 of E.O. 
11644, (37 FR 2877) and Sec. 4.10(b) of this chapter.
    (b) Off-road vehicle operation. (1) Operation of motor vehicles, 
(including the various forms of vehicles used for travel oversand, such 
as but not limited to,

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``beach buggies'') on beaches or on designated oversand routes without a 
permit from the Superintendent is prohibited. Before a permit will be 
issued, each vehicle will be inspected to assure that it contains the 
following equipment which must be carried in the vehicle at all times 
while on the beaches or on the designated oversand routes:
    (i) Shovel;
    (ii) Jack;
    (iii) Tow rope or chain;
    (iv) Board or similar support;
    (v) Low pressure tire gauge.

Prior to the issuance of such permits, operators must show compliance 
with Federal and State regulations and applicable to licensing, 
registering, inspecting, and insuring of such vehicles. Such permits 
shall be affixed to the vehicles as instructed at the time of issuance.
    (2) Driving off designated, marked oversand routes or beaches is 
prohibited.
    (3) Vehicles shall not be parked in designated oversand routes or 
interfere with moving traffic.
    (4) When the process of freeing a vehicle which has been stuck 
results in ruts or holes, the ruts or holes shall be filled by the 
operator of such vehicle before it is removed from that area.
    (5) The operation of a motorcycle on an oversand vehicle route or 
beach is prohibited.
    (6) The Superintendent may establish limits on the number of 
oversand vehicles permitted on designated oversand routes and beaches 
when such limitations are necessary in the interest of public safety, 
protection of the ecological and environmental values of the area, 
coordination with other visitor uses.
    (c) Public lewdness. Section 245.00 of the New York Penal Code is 
hereby adopted and incorporated into the regulations of this part. 
Section 245.00 provides that:

    A person is guilty of public lewdness when he intentionally exposes 
the private and intimate parts of his body in a lewd manner or commits 
any other lewd act (a) in a public place, or (b) in private premises 
under circumstances in which he may readily be observed from either a 
public place or from other private premises, and with intent that he be 
so observed.

[41 FR 19220, May 11, 1976, as amended at 44 FR 44157, July 27, 1979; 52 
FR 10686, Apr. 2, 1987]