(a) As used in this section, “skateboard” shall include, without limitation, any vehicle or device consisting basically of a board or platform mounted on wheels or rollers, whether powered by gravity, muscle power or mechanical or motorized means, which is not equipped with a positive mechanical means of steering such vehicle or device.
(b) No person shall ride or operate a skateboard on any roadway.
(c) No person shall ride a skateboard upon a sidewalk within a commercially zoned district, upon a sidewalk within a shopping center or upon a sidewalk where signs are erected prohibiting such operation.
(d) No person shall operate a skateboard at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions then existing. For the purposes of this section, any speed above fifteen miles per hour shall be prima-facie unreasonable and imprudent.
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be subject to the penalty provided in § 408.01.
(Ord. 91-O-1267, passed 12-17-1991)