Grand Junction, CO Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

GJMC § 10.04.803 sets Grand Junction's mid-block and off-crosswalk crossing rules. Subsection (1) requires every pedestrian crossing a roadway anywhere other than within a marked crosswalk, or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, to yield the right-of-way to all vehicles on the roadway, and subsection (2) applies the same yield duty where a pedestrian tunnel or overhead pedestrian crossing has been built instead. Subsection (3) goes further between adjacent signalized intersections: pedestrians there may not cross at any point except in a marked crosswalk, effectively barring mid-block jaywalking on signal-controlled blocks even when yielding to traffic.

Subsection (4) separately bars diagonal crossing of an intersection unless the City has posted official traffic control devices authorizing it, and when that movement is permitted the pedestrian must follow the specific signals governing the diagonal crossing. The section sits alongside GJMC § 10.04.801 and § 10.04.802, which set the general rule that pedestrians obey traffic-control devices and get the right-of-way in a marked crosswalk when signals are dark; § 10.04.803 is what strips that right-of-way away once a pedestrian steps outside a crosswalk. A related duty falls on drivers regardless of where a pedestrian is walking: GJMC § 10.04.807 still requires every driver to exercise due care to avoid hitting a pedestrian and to sound the horn when necessary, so a jaywalker's loss of right-of-way under § 10.04.803 does not excuse careless driving.

Any violation of § 10.04.803 is a traffic infraction, a civil matter enforced by the Grand Junction Police Department and capped at $1,000 under the City's general traffic-penalty section, GJMC § 10.04.1701, with fines payable through the Municipal Court Violations Bureau.