Chapter 12.90 — Palm Springs Municipal Code

REGULATION OF BICYCLES, SKATEBOARDS ROLLER SKATES, SCOOTERS, ELECTRONIC PERSONAL ASSISTIVE MOBILE DEVICES AND SIMILAR DEVICES

§ 12.90.010. Bicycles on sidewalk.¶

(a) Unless otherwise expressly allowed by another provision of this title or other applicable law, no person shall ride a bicycle or unicycle within or on any sidewalk area or parkway except at a permanent or temporary driveway. Bicycles and unicycles may be ridden along portions or segments of sidewalks expressly permitted by resolution of the city council, but not until such sidewalk areas have been appropriately designated by the city engineer with signs or markings to give due notice to the pedestrian and the cycling public.
(b) No person shall ride, operate or use a bicycle or unicycle on a sidewalk or bikeway in a willful or wanton manner or with disregard for the safety of persons or property.
(c) This section shall not apply to bicycles owned by the city of Palm Springs and used for enforcement purposes.
(Ord. 1644 § 5, 2004)

§ 12.90.020. Use of skateboards, scooters, roller skates, and similar devices restricted.¶

(a) It is unlawful for any person riding on a skateboard, scooter, roller skate, coaster, toy vehicle, or similar device to go upon an open roadway in the city of Palm Springs, or upon the sidewalk or public plaza in any business district as defined by Section 235 of the California Vehicle Code, or upon any inclined surface area of any parkade where signs forbidding such activity are displayed at the ground level elevator entrance and at each vehicular entrance to the parkade.
(b) It is unlawful for any person riding on a skateboard, scooter, roller skate, coaster, toy vehicle, or similar device to go upon any portion of public or private rights-of-way in the downtown section of the city of Palm Springs in the area between the most northerly sidewalk of Vista Chino Road to the most southerly sidewalk of Ramon Road, and the most easterly sidewalk of Indian Canyon Drive to the most westerly sidewalk of Belardo Road.
(c) It is unlawful for any person riding on a skateboard, scooter, roller skate, coaster, toy vehicle, or similar device on a sidewalk, or public or private right-of-way not open to public vehicular traffic to fail to yield the right of way to pedestrians.
(d) It is unlawful for any person riding on a skateboard, scooter, roller skate, coaster, toy vehicle, or similar device on any sidewalk, public, or private right-of-way not open to public vehicular traffic to travel at a speed which endangers the safety of persons or property.
(Ord. 1644 § 5, 2004)

§ 12.90.030. Use of electric personal assistive mobility devices restricted.¶

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person operating an EPAMD to go upon any portion of any public or private street or sidewalk in the downtown section of the city of Palm Springs in the area between the most northerly sidewalk of Alejo Road to the most southerly sidewalk of Ramon Road, and the most easterly sidewalk of Indian Canyon Drive to the westerly

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City of Palm Springs, CA § 12.90.030

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sidewalk of Belardo Road.

(b) The term "pedestrian" shall not, for any purposes, be deemed to include an EPAMD.
(c) Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of an infraction and, upon the conviction thereof, shall be punished for the first offense by a warning or a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars; and for a second or subsequent offense by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.
(d) This section shall not apply to members of the Palm Springs police department or the Palm Springs fire department while engaged in their official duties.
(Ord. 1644 § 5, 2004)

§ 12.90.040. Clinging to motor vehicles.¶

No person riding upon any bicycle, unicycle, motorcycle, skateboard, roller skate, EPAMD, coaster, toy vehicle or similar device shall attach the same or himself or herself to any moving vehicle upon any sidewalk, roadway, private or public right-of way, parkade or parking lot. (Ord. 1644 § 5, 2004)

§ 12.90.050. Posting required—Skateboard, roller skate, scooter and electric personal…¶

(a) Any person who engages in the business of renting bicycles or unicycles within the city of Palm Springs shall keep a copy of Section 12.90.010 posted in a conspicuous place upon the premises where such business is conducted.
(b) Any person who engages in the business of renting skateboards, roller skates, scooters, coasters, toy vehicles, or similar devices within the city of Palm Springs shall keep a copy of Section 12.90.020 posted in a conspicuous place upon the premises where such business is conducted.
(c) Any person who engages in the business of renting electric personal assistive mobility devices within the city of Palm Springs shall keep a copy of Section 12.90.030 posted in a conspicuous place upon the premises where such business is conducted.
(Ord. 1644 § 5, 2004)

§ 12.90.060. Exemption from the provisions of this chapter.¶

Any device designed, intended, and used solely for the transportation of infants, the handicapped, or incapacitated persons or devices designed, intended, and used for the transportation of merchandise to and from the place of purchase and other wheeled devices, when being used for either of these purposes, shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter. Furthermore, the city council may, by resolution, suspend the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter to accommodate special events when so requested by the event organizer. (Ord. 1644 § 5, 2004)

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