Chapter 16A — SKATEBOARDS AND SIMILAR DEVICES

The purpose of this chapter is to prohibit the use of skateboards and similar devices in shopping centers and on and along pedestrian walks and ways in certain designated areas of the city when such activity endangers pedestrians using such property.

(Ord. No. 358, § 1.)

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

Pedestrian walk shall mean those areas of the city, usually a public sidewalk, but may include an alley, roadway, parking lot, or any way or place used for pedestrian foot traffic or for wheelchairs.

Shopping center means the privately owned real property upon which a business-commercial development is situated, which development is open to the general public and devoted to retail sales and services from shops and stores situated therein, as well as other accessory uses compatible with a retail sales shopping area.

Skateboard means a mechanism having two or more sets of wheels, often resembling wheels on rollerskates, which are fastened to a platform, commonly constructed to accommodate a standing person. Skateboards are normally propelled by the operator pushing off the ground with one foot or by the force of gravity but may be operated by an engine, motor or similar device.

(Ord. No. 358, § 1.)

(a)

No person shall use or operate a skateboard, roller skates, toy vehicle, or similar device on any public or private street, alley, sidewalk, right-of-way or any property owned or maintained by the city, in a manner which endangers the safety of any other person or property. No person using or operating a skateboard on a street, alley, sidewalk, pedestrian walk, right-of-way, or any other property owned or maintained by the city, shall pass a pedestrian at a distance closer than three feet. If such street, alley, sidewalk, right-of-way, pedestrian walk or public property is not sufficiently wide to allow the skateboarder to ride past the pedestrian while maintaining the three-foot distance, the skateboarder shall cease to operate the skateboard and walk past the pedestrian until such time as the skateboarder can maintain the three-foot distance. This prohibition shall not apply to a motorized wheelchair while it is being used for transportation of a physically handicapped person, nor to a bicycle being ridden upon a roadway.

(b)

No person shall use or operate a skateboard within any shopping center, apartment parking lot or within twenty feet of the entrance to any shop, store, or commercial building which has been posted by the owner or manager with a sign, as described below. The posting of these signs is voluntary on the part of any such property manager or owner.

(1)

For shopping centers, signs shall be posted on the property of the shopping center, along each exterior entrance of the shopping center, in plain view of pedestrians or motor vehicle operators entering the center at such entrances. Additional signs, as described below, may be posted within the interiors of the shopping center. These signs shall be maintained by the management of the shopping center.

(2)

Each such sign shall state: "SKATEBOARDING PROHIBITED" and underneath "City of Colusa City Code Section 16A-3." The signs shall be not less than one square foot in area and will have letters not less than two inches in height.

(3)

Managers or owners of private property desiring to post their property shall delivery written notification of such posting to the city of Colusa chief of police not less than twenty-four hours prior to posting the signs.

(4)

Any manager or owner may withdraw from the provisions of this chapter by notifying the chief of police, in writing, of such withdrawal, and removing the required signs.

(Ord. No. 358, § 1.)

A violation of this chapter shall constitute an infraction and shall be punishable as an infraction.

(Ord. No. 358, § 1.)