(A) It shall be unlawful for any person within or upon any property owned or operated by the city to operate, drive, park or leave standing any motor vehicle, skateboard, scooter, or any other vehicle or bicycle, where notice of such prohibition has been posted and is visible at at least two entrances to the prohibited area, or in the immediate area where such activity is prohibited. The signs shall not be less than 12 inches wide by 18 inches height in size, with lettering of not less than one inch in height which prohibits the operation of skateboards. This section shall not apply to persons participating in any city- sponsored program, event or class in which use of the self-powered wheeled devices described herein are utilized, permitted or required.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person, within or upon posted private property in commercial zones and industrial zones open to the public, to operate, drive, park or leave standing any motor vehicle, skateboard, scooter, or any other vehicle or bicycle, where notice of such prohibition has been posted and is visible at at least two entrances to the prohibited area, or in the immediate area where such activity is prohibited. The signs shall not be less than 12 inches wide by 18 inches height in size, with lettering of not less than one inch in height which prohibits the operation of skateboards. This section shall not apply to persons participating in any city-sponsored program, event or class in which use of the self- powered wheeled devices described herein are utilized, permitted or required.
(C) No person shall use a bicycle, skateboard, or scooter in a manner which creates a nuisance.
(D) No person shall use a bicycle, skateboard, or scooter for the purpose of grinding and/or sliding on any monument, sign, building, roof railing, fence gate, table, bench, planter, curb, bleachers, stairway, rail, handrail, and fountain or any other angled object or structure with defined edges by a person utilizing or riding upon any non-rolling portion of the skateboard.
(E) It is unlawful for any person to ride in or on a skateboard, scooter or bicycle, on or across any road, street or highway in such a manner as to interfere with the movement of vehicles thereon, or in such a way as to create an unreasonable risk or harm to vehicular or pedestrian traffic. Pursuant to Vehicle Code Section 21967, the following rules and regulations shall apply to riding or propelling of bicycles, skateboards, scooters and other listed devices on roadways. Bicycles, skateboards, scooters and other listed devices must:
(1) Stop at all stop signs and red signals;
(2) Yield to all vehicles at yield signs;
(3) Yield to pedestrians at marked and unmarked crosswalks;
(4) Not impede traffic or interfere with the flow of vehicular traffic;
(5) Yield to approaching vehicles when entering any roadway;
(6) Not to be towed by a motor vehicle of any speed or a bicycle at an unsafe speed;
(7) Yield bicycle lanes to bicycles and not use bicycle lanes in any manner contrary to the free and open use of those lanes by bicycles; and
(8) Not suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and travel into the path of a vehicle which is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard.
(F) A police officer or person authorized to issue citations shall have the authority to impound the bicycle, skateboard, or scooter of a person who violates this chapter. The citation shall serve as a receipt for the item impounded.
(G) Upon presentation of the citation to a Police Department representative, the owner may claim the impounded bicycle, skateboard or scooter at the police department during business hours. Upon receipt of the impounded item, the owner shall be provided a copy of § 130.05 of the municipal code, and be advised that for any subsequent violations of this chapter, the city will impound the bicycle, skateboard or scooter, and seek a court order declaring the item a nuisance and authorizing the city to destroy said item. If the owner of the bicycle, skateboard or scooter is a minor, his/her parents or legal guardian may claim the item as described above.
(H) Violation of this section shall be deemed an infraction.
(‘64 Code, § 15-39.3) (Ord. 590, passed 10-9-80; Ord. 738, passed 9-22-88; Am. Ord. 897, passed 4-22-99; Am. Ord. 1072, passed 5- 12-16) Penalty, see § 10.97