Coconut Creek, FL Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

Section 19-14 of the Coconut Creek Code of Ordinances is the city's pedestrian rule, adopted by the City Commission in Chapter 19 (Traffic and Motor Vehicles). The code never uses the word jaywalking. It regulates the conduct instead. Under subsection (e), every pedestrian crossing at any point other than within a marked crosswalk, or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, must yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway. That is a duty to yield, not a flat ban on mid-block crossing, and it puts the burden on the walker.

Subsection (f) adds a second rule: no pedestrian may cross a roadway at an intersection diagonally unless official traffic-control devices authorize it, and where they do, the pedestrian must follow only the movements those devices show. Subsection (a) requires pedestrians to obey any official traffic-control device that applies to them unless a public safety officer directs otherwise, and it ties intersection signals to F.S. § 316.075.

The rest of the section covers where pedestrians walk and stand. Where sidewalks exist, subsection (b) keeps pedestrians off the paved vehicle portion of the roadway unless other circumstances require it. Where there are no sidewalks, a pedestrian walking along a highway must, when practicable, use the shoulder on the left side, facing oncoming traffic. Subsection (c) prohibits standing in the paved roadway to solicit a ride, employment or business from the occupant of a vehicle. Subsection (d) protects people in crosswalks by barring a driver from overtaking and passing a vehicle that has stopped at a marked crosswalk, or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, to let a pedestrian cross.

Enforcement runs through the Coconut Creek Police Department and the public safety officers named in the section. Subsection (g) makes a pedestrian who fails or refuses to comply with any lawful order or direction guilty of a violation of the chapter, punished as provided by law. Section 19-16(3) sets the amount for violations that are not parking or handicapped-parking offenses: fines set by Florida Statutes. The city code lists no separate dollar figure for pedestrian violations. Section 19-14 cites F.S. § 316.130 as the similar state provision, and Broward County is the county in which the city sits.