Mesa, AZ Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

Mesa's pedestrian rules sit in Title 10, Chapter 3 of the City Code, the same chapter that governs vehicle traffic. Section 10-3-19 first spells out when pedestrians must yield, subsection (E) requires anyone crossing outside a marked or unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, or at a point with a pedestrian tunnel or overhead crossing, to yield the right-of-way to vehicles. Subsection (F), 'Prohibited Crossing,' goes further: between two adjacent intersections where traffic-control signals are both operating, a pedestrian may not cross anywhere except in a crosswalk, full stop, yielding is not an option there.

The same subsection separately bars crossing outside a crosswalk anywhere inside a business district, regardless of whether nearby intersections are signalized. S. Title 28, Chapter 6, Articles 20 and 21. That routes a jaywalking citation into Mesa Municipal Court's civil traffic process rather than criminal court, and the Court's own fee structure adds weight: Section 1-12-4 imposes a $70 default fee on anyone who fails to appear or fails to pay a civil traffic sanction in full, on top of the $15 court sustainability fee that Section 1-12-3 adds to every non-parking civil traffic sanction the court imposes.