(a) (1) It is the purpose of this section to provide for and promote the health, safety and welfare of the general public, including those who wish to use skateboards, roller blades and roller skates, as well as those who drive motor vehicles, and pedestrians who use the sidewalks.
(2) It is the specific intent of this section that none of its provisions are intended to impose any duty whatsoever upon the City, or any of its officers or employees, for whom the implementation and enforcement of this section shall be discretionary and not mandatory.
(b) “Skateboard” means any platform device designed and intended to move or propel one or more riders over a hard surface by means of roller wheels utilizing gravity or human impetus. “Roller skates” and “roller blades” means any device fitted upon the human foot designed and intended to propel persons over hard surfaces by means of roller wheels utilizing gravity or human impetus.
(c) “Business district” is defined as the following areas:
(1) Downtown business district which is both sides on Main Street from High Street to Memorial Drive and both sides of North Columbus Street from Wheeling to Chestnut Street and both sides of Broad Street from Chestnut to Wheeling Street. A business district includes the parking lots adjacent to the businesses in the district.
(2) A general business district is the sidewalk area adjacent to a commercial establishment.
(3) Any business district as may be defined by the Lancaster Codified Ordinances.
(d) No person shall ride a skateboard or wear roller blades or roller skate devices upon public property within any business district of the City, nor shall any person ride a skateboard or wear roller blades or roller skates upon any street within the corporation limits.
(e) Every person riding a skateboard or wearing roller blades or roller skate devices shall do so on private property only with the written permission of the person(s) in control thereof.
(f) Every person riding a skateboard or wearing roller blades or roller skate devices upon sidewalks shall yield the right of way to all pedestrians at all times and shall pass them, without causing injury or reasonable fear for their safety, even if dismounting or the cessation of locomotion shall be necessary.
(g) Every person riding a skateboard shall dismount a skateboard at a street intersection and shall walk as a pedestrian across such intersection.
(h) No person shall ride a skateboard or wear roller blades or roller skate devices on public street or sidewalks after sunset and before sunrise without wearing a reflective vest or other reasonable reflective device or other reasonable reflective devices.
(i) Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a minor misdemeanor. A second violation of this offense is a fourth degree misdemeanor.
(Ord. 31-98. Passed 4-13-98.)