La Habra, CA Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

Section 10.44.010 gives the traffic commission authority to mark and maintain crosswalks wherever it finds a particular hazard to pedestrians crossing the roadway, but subsection B limits mid-block crosswalks: outside of intersections, no marked crosswalk may be placed in any block shorter than four hundred feet, and where one is placed it must sit as close to the true mid-block point as practicable. Subsection C lets the commission post signs at or near an intersection directing pedestrians not to use a particular marked crosswalk. Section 10.44.020 then narrows where the crosswalk-only rule actually applies: in the central traffic district and in any business district, a pedestrian may not cross the roadway anywhere except by a crosswalk.

Outside those two district types, the section does not by its own terms require a crosswalk crossing. Chapter 10.44 sets no penalty of its own for a violation, so enforcement falls to La Habra Municipal Code § 1.08.010, the city's general penalty section: a violation is a misdemeanor unless the ordinance making it unlawful designates it an infraction, punishable by a fine of up to $500 and up to six months in jail, with every day of a continuing violation treated as a separate offense.