Bossier City, LA Mobility & Curb Rules: Shared E-Scooter Rules (2026)

Sec. 98-5 of the Bossier City Code of Ordinances, adopted by Ord. No. 3-2021 on January 5, 2021, defines an 'electric low-speed scooter' as any rental or commercial scooter under 100 pounds with handlebars and an electric motor, powered by electricity or human effort, capable of exceeding five miles per hour on a paved level surface under motor power alone. That definition sweeps in the dockless rental scooters that operators have rolled out in other Louisiana cities. The ordinance then bans operating any such scooter on sidewalks, bicycle paths, public rights-of-way, streets or highways anywhere within the Bossier City limits, carving out only one exception: residential areas.

That means the Louisiana Boardwalk, the riverfront casino district around Horseshoe and Margaritaville, Airline Drive and every other commercial corridor are closed to shared scooters, while neighborhood streets remain open. The Bossier City Police Department enforces the ban with a flat $100.00 fine per offense, a penalty set directly in the ordinance rather than referred to the general municipal-court fine schedule. Sec. 98-5(d) also repeals any earlier ordinance or resolution provision that conflicted with the ban, confirming the city intended a clean, citywide prohibition rather than a permitted or geofenced shared-scooter program.

Because the code contains no permit, registration or franchise process for scooter vendors, there is no path in Bossier City for a company to legally deploy a dockless rental fleet outside residential streets; the rule functions as a blanket ban rather than an operating framework.