(a) No person shall ride a skateboard, transport themselves by roller blades, or roller skates, ride a non-motorized scooter, or ride or operate a like instrument, on any City streets.
(b) The use of skateboards, roller blades, roller skates, non-motorized scooters, or like instruments, is strictly prohibited in the City’s business district, which is hereby designated as the area of Main Street between Portsmouth Street and Harding Avenue, Broadway Street between Water Street and Broad Street, and Pearl Street between Portsmouth Street and Church Street. All public streets, alleys, and sidewalks in this area shall constitute the City business district.
(c) No person shall ride a skateboard, transport themselves by roller blades or roller skates, ride a non-motorized scooter, or ride or operate a like instrument, in public areas known as the Jackson City Memorial Building, the Jackson City Police Department, the Jackson City Fire Department, and all public school facilities located in the City of Jackson, Ohio.
(d) Any person who is riding a skateboard, riding a non-motorized scooter, or riding or operating a like instrument, shall dismount such instrument at all public intersections and walk across such intersection.
(e) No person shall ride a skateboard, transport themselves by roller blades or roller skates, ride a non-motorized scooter, or ride or operate a like instrument, after sunset or before sunrise.
(f) Bicycles and tricycles obeying the current traffic law are specifically excluded and exempt from the provisions of this section.
(Ord. 54-02. Passed 6-10-02.)
(g) Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a minor misdemeanor. A second violation of any provision of this section shall be a fourth degree misdemeanor.
(Ord. 54-02. Passed 6-10-02.)
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF JACKSON