Ontario Municipal Code Art. 19 Skateboards, Roller Skates and Roller Blades on Public and Private Property

(a) Cal. Veh. Code § 21113(f) allows a local agency to adopt rules or regulations to restrict, or specify the conditions for, the use of bicycles, motorized bicycles, skateboards and roller skates on public property under the jurisdiction of that local agency. The intent and purpose of this article is to enable the local law enforcement agency, on behalf of the City, to prohibit skateboarding, roller skating or roller blading on public and private property only when those activities create a nuisance.

(b) Enforcement of this article would occur on school grounds only if the school district board governing public schools chooses to post signage at a designated school stating that (1) it is the school's policy to prohibit skateboarding or other similar activities on a school campus, and (2) that the City prohibits the riding of skateboards, roller skates and roller blades in a manner which creates a nuisance.

(§ 1, Ord. 2608, eff. February 15, 1996)

For the purposes of this article, the following words have the meaning attributed.

(a) “Private property” means any property held by private interests which is used primarily for business, commercial, office space, business park, religious, multifamily, or recreational purposes. This shall also include the parking facilities for these “private property” areas.

(b) “Public property” means any property owned or maintained by the City, any public agency or public school district and any public utility within the geographical boundaries of the City, including any public square, street, sidewalk or highway.

(c) “Roller skates” or “roller blades” means any footwear, or device which may be attached to the foot or footwear, to which wheels are attached, including wheels that are “in line” and where such wheels may be used to aid the wearer in moving or propulsion.

(d) “Skateboard” means a board of any material, which has wheels attached to it and which is propelled or moved by human, gravitational, or mechanical power, and to which there is not fixed any device or mechanism to turn or control the wheels.

(e) “Nuisance” is defined as any activity which (1) threatens injury to persons or property, (2) creates an obstruction or presents a hazard to the free use of public or private property by pedestrians or motorists, or (3) generates loud or unreasonable noise.

(§ 1, Ord. 2608, eff. February 15, 1996)

(a) No person shall use a skateboard, roller blades or roller skates in a manner which creates a nuisance as defined in § 4-6.1902(e).

(b) Notwithstanding §§ 4-6.1901(b) and 4-6.1903(a), school officials may permit skateboarding, roller skating or roller blading on a posted campus as part of a school-supervised recreational or athletic activity.

(§ 1, Ord. 2608, eff. February 15, 1996)

(a) Prior to the enforcement of the prohibition of skateboarding, roller skating or roller blading at any school campus, only when these activities create a nuisance as defined in § 4-6.1902(e), a sign announcing a school's policy prohibiting these activities must be posted along with a sign announcing the section of this article pertaining to the regulation of skateboarding, roller skating and roller blading, § 4-6.1903(a).

(b) Signs so posted shall be a minimum of seventeen (17) inches by twenty two (22) inches in size with lettering not less than one (1) inch in height and shall provide substantially as follows:

(1) The school's policy to prohibit skateboarding; and

(2) “Skateboarding, roller skating or roller blading are prohibited when deemed to be a nuisance under §§ 4-6.1902(e) and 4-6.1903 of the Ontario Municipal Code. Any violation is an infraction.”

(§ 1, Ord. 2608, eff. February 15, 1996)