New Orleans, LA Mobility & Curb Rules: Shared E-Scooter Rules (2026)

City Code § 154-1751(a) makes it unlawful for any person to rent, offer to rent, or facilitate the rental of electric scooters for use on public property, streets, or the right-of-way: language that squarely covers dockless, app-based scooter-share operations of the kind that operated in other cities. Subsection (b) carves out the only lawful model: rental from a scooter rental facility that has registered and annually renews an occupational license with the department of finance's bureau of revenue, maintains a physical office location where each scooter is picked up and returned at the start and end of every rental, and stores its scooters inside that office location whenever they are not rented out.

This structure forecloses leave-anywhere dockless fleets and no-ride-zone geofencing models; a scooter cannot be picked up or dropped off anywhere on the public right-of-way under this article. Section 154-1752 separately bans depositing, placing, or storing any electric scooter on the right-of-way other than at a proper bike rack or designated storage area; a scooter left that way is deemed an encumbrance or obstruction under § 146-493 and is subject to immediate removal. 00 for each subsequent violation may be assessed before the scooter is sold or donated to a nonprofit serving children of the parish.