Ontario, CA Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

The Central Traffic District is defined in Sec. 103 as all streets and portions of streets bounded by the Southern Pacific Company railroad tracks, G Street, Vine Avenue, and Sultana Avenue, Ontario's historic downtown core. Inside that district, and in any business district citywide, Sec. 902 requires pedestrians to use a marked crosswalk rather than crossing at will. Sec. 901 puts the City Traffic Engineer in charge of establishing those crosswalks with paint, signs, or roadway markings at every intersection inside the Central Traffic District, plus any intersection outside it, and any other location the Engineer flags as particularly hazardous for foot traffic.

Outside the Central Traffic District and business districts, the crosswalk-only rule does not apply, so the restriction targets the busiest pedestrian corridors rather than residential streets citywide. Enforcement runs through the Police Department's Traffic Division, created under Sec. 201 and directed under Sec. 202 to enforce the City's street traffic regulations and the state Vehicle Code provisions that apply to street traffic in Ontario. A pedestrian who crosses mid-block or diagonally outside a marked crosswalk in downtown Ontario or any commercial district violates Sec. 902 directly, independent of the separate obstruction or interference offenses addressed elsewhere in the same chapter.