CHAPTER 3
SKATEBOARDS

(Added by O-3456)

63.4.1 GENERAL PROVISIONS.

No person may use a skateboard in a manner that creates a nuisance by causing or threatening to cause injury to persons or property, obstructing or presenting a hazard to the free use of public or private property by pedestrians, cyclists, or motorists, or generating loud or unreasonable noise.

63.4.2 PEDESTRIAN RIGHT-OF-WAY.

Every person using any skateboard must yield right-of-way to any pedestrian upon a sidewalk.

63.4.3 USE ON DESIGNATED PUBLIC PROPERTY PROHIBITED.

No person may use any skateboard along, across, or upon any school, park, public parking lot, public parking facility or structure. The Police Chief may designate other public property as being closed to this activity.

63.4.4 USE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.

No person may use any skateboard on any privately owned, operated, or controlled property designated by the property owner as prohibiting this use.

63.4.5 POSTING IN PROHIBITED AREAS.

Areas designated as prohibiting uses defined in Sections 63.4.3 and 63.4.4 must be posted to provide notice of the prohibited activity. The prohibition will not be effective unless the required signs are posted.

63.4.6 EXEMPTION FOR APPROVED FACILITY LOCATED ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.

The prohibition in Section 63.4.3 does not apply to the use of any skateboard in any approved facility located on public property.

63.4.7 EXEMPTION FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS.

The use of human or motor-propelled devices by handicapped persons is not prohibited on any street, sidewalk, school, park, public parking lot, public parking facility or structure, public right-of-way, or other public property.

63.4.8 PENALTIES.

Any person who violates any provision of this Chapter is guilty of an infraction with a penalty of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for the first violation, fifty dollars ($50.00) for the second violation, and one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the third violation. Any person who violates any provision in this Chapter more than three (3) times will be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished upon conviction for each subsequent violation.