Concord, NC Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

Section 58-122 of the Concord Code of Ordinances requires pedestrians who leave a crosswalk to cross by a route at right angles to the curb or the shortest direct route to the opposite curb; anything else, such as crossing on a diagonal or mid-block at an angle, violates the section. Section 58-121 separately directs pedestrians using a marked crosswalk to keep to its right half whenever practicable. Section 58-124 imposes a stricter rule inside the city's central business district: pedestrians there may not cross a roadway at all except in a crosswalk, eliminating the right-angle option available elsewhere in the city.

Section 58-123 places the legal burden on the pedestrian in the two situations where drivers get the right-of-way: crossing at any point outside a marked crosswalk or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, and crossing where the city has built a pedestrian tunnel or overhead crossing. Section 58-125 reminds drivers they must still exercise due care and sound a horn when necessary to avoid hitting a pedestrian, child, or confused or incapacitated person, but that duty does not erase the pedestrian's own crossing violation. 00 if the violator fails to respond to the citation. Concord Police Department officers write the citations; North Carolina General Statute 20-174 supplies the underlying state pedestrian-crossing rule the local sections implement.