DIVISION 6 - TRAFFIC (O-446: O-699; Amended by O-1140; O-1269; O-1442)
CHAPTER 3 - SKATEBOARDS (Added by O-3456)
SECTION 63.4.1. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
SECTION 63.4.2. PEDESTRIAN RIGHT-OF-WAY.
SECTION 63.4.3. USE ON DESIGNATED PUBLIC PROPERTY PROHIBITED.
SECTION 63.4.4. USE ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.
SECTION 63.4.5. POSTING IN PROHIBITED AREAS.
SECTION 63.4.6. EXEMPTION FOR APPROVED FACILITY LOCATED ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
SECTION 63.4.7. EXEMPTION FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS.
SECTION 63.4.8. PENALTIES.
SECTION 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.
SECTION 63.4.2. PEDESTRIAN RIGHT-OF-WAY.
Every person using any skateboard must yield right-of-way to any
pedestrian upon a sidewalk.
SECTION 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.
SECTION 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.
SECTION 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.
SECTION 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.
SECTION 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.
SECTION 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.
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