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Governing body, for the purpose of this article, means the county board of commissioners. <br />Manager, for the purpose of this article, means the county manager, or another person to whom he <br />delegates the administrative duties and responsibilities of the county. <br />Structures and areas, for the purpose of this article are defined to mean the outdoor and indoor areas and <br />structures on or in which people derive opportunity for the pursuit of happiness through recreation, whether or <br />not these areas and structures are owned, leased, borrowed, controlled, or operated within the boundaries of <br />Orange County. <br />(Ord. of 2 -5 -1979, art. I, § III, eff. 2 -5 -1979) <br />• Sec. 26 -94. - Powers, general. <br />It is the-a basic function of the Orange County Department of Environment, Agriculture, Parks, and <br />(Recreation Peg& etA-to promote recreation for its e4tzea residents and, in so doing, is authorized to aid <br />and assist agencies pursuant to policies recommended by the council and accepted by the county which include <br />public, private, commercial, those which are quasi - public in character, those which, although public in nature, <br />are not under the county's governing body (such as schools, churches, hospitals, military installations, <br />orphanages, commercial recreation, business and industrial agencies), and civic, neighborhood and service <br />groups in their recreation interests and needs. <br />(Ord. of 2 -5 -1979, art. I, § IV, eff. 2 -5 -1979) <br />• Secs. 26 -95-26 -114. - Reserved. <br />• DIVISION 2. - RECREATION COUNCIL <br />• Sec. 26 -115. - Creation; name; number of members. <br />There is hereby created an Orange County Parks and Rrecreation Council composed of 13 eittzens <br />residents of Orange County, to be known as the Orange County Parks and Rrecreation Council. <br />(Ord. of 2 -5 -1979, art. It § V, eff. 2 -5 -1979) <br />Editor's note <br />By March 6, 2008 Board of Commissioner action the Department of Recreation and Parks was renamed <br />as the Department of Parks and Recreation. Consequently the Recreation and Parks Council is <br />referred to as the Parks and Recreation Council. By subsequent Board action dated April 13, 2010, <br />the Department of Recreation and Parks was merged with the Department of Environment and <br />Resource Conservation (including the Soil and Water Conservation District Office) and renamed as <br />the Department of Environment, Agriculture, Parks and Recreation (DEAPR) effective April 1, <br />2010. <br />• Sec. 26 -116. - Council; powers and duties. <br />The council shall serve as the advisory body for the department of parks and recreation. The Ceouncil's <br />powers and responsibilities shall be as those powers and responsibilities are stated in the Orange County Board <br />of County Commissioners Advisory Board Policy and the Parks and Recreation Council Policies and <br />Procedures (the "Applicable Policies "), and as those Applicable Policies may be amended from time to time. <br />