(A) General. The City Council may, by resolution, prohibit the operation of self-propelled devices within areas of the city, provided that the resolution is recommended by the Sheriff and the City Council finds that the prohibition is necessary to protect pedestrians, or to eliminate hazards.
(Prior Code, § 22-33)
(B) Purpose. The purpose of this section is to protect the public health and safety arising out of the use of skateboards, roller skates, rollerblades and roller skis within the city; to regulate the use thereof upon public streets and sidewalks; to prohibit the same from parking lots on commercially zoned land; and to provide penalties for violations. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the use of a wheelchair or other wheeled devices designed to assist disabled persons on sidewalks or public or private parking lots.
(Prior Code, § 22-34)
(C) Definition. For the purpose of this section, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
SELF-PROPELLED DEVICES. A non-motorized platform, footboard, ski-like device, shoe, boot or similar object mounted on wheels and designed and intended to propel the rider by human power or force or by gravity, including, but not limited to: skateboards; roller skis; scooters; roller skates and in-line skates. The definition does not include a wheelchair operated by a disabled person; bicycles; wagons or strollers.
(Prior Code, § 22-35)
(D) Prohibited acts.
(1) No person may attach a rider of any self-propelled device to any motor vehicle upon a street or roadway in the city.
(2) No person in a motor vehicle may closely follow a skateboarder so that a safe distance is not maintained between the vehicle and the skateboarder.
(3) People using self-propelled devices may not obstruct any sidewalk, lane, alley, public ground, public landing, wharf or pier or any other public place by placing any building materials, carriages, carts, boxes, lumber, firewood, posts or rails or any other materials or substances whatsoever to be used as ramps or guides for other skateboards or other self-propelled devices.
(4) People using self-propelled devices may not obstruct any public street in a manner that impedes traffic.
(5) No person may ride or propel a self-propelled device on any sidewalk, public street or public walkway within the city, in a manner that endangers or is likely to endanger other persons or property.
(6) Use of a self-propelled device is forbidden on the private property of another without the written permission of the owner. The document granting permission shall be available for presentation to law enforcement.
(7) All riders must slow to a speed that is reasonable for conditions of traffic, be able to stop if necessary and yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian upon any public way. Riders must yield to motor vehicles when crossing roadways.
(8) Operators or riders of self-propelled devices shall yield the right-of-way to other pedestrians using the city sidewalks and shall not otherwise endanger or interfere with pedestrian traffic on those sidewalks.
(9) Self-propelled devices may not be operated contrary to the statutory provisions applicable to the operation of bicycles.
(10) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or ride a self-propelled device (skateboard, roller skates, roller skis, roller blades) on any public property where signs prohibit this use.
(Prior Code, § 22-36)
Penalty, see § 70.99