Palm Springs, CA Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

020 is narrow and specific: pedestrians in Palm Springs may not cross a roadway other than by a crosswalk, but only within a business district. Outside business districts, such as most residential blocks, this section does not require crosswalk use. 010(a), and under subsection (b) may also post signs at or near an intersection directing pedestrians not to cross in a particular marked crosswalk, effectively closing that crossing to foot traffic even though the painted lines remain. 90, so downtown Palm Springs, Uptown and other commercial corridors are where the crosswalk-only rule actually applies.

The rule is enforced by the Palm Springs Police Department. Because much of downtown Palm Springs, including sections crossed by Palm Canyon Drive, sits within the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians' checkerboarded trust land, a mid-block crossing that falls within a tribal trust section is not necessarily reached by this city ordinance at all; enforcement authority there depends on which sovereign controls that particular parcel, a genuinely unusual jurisdictional wrinkle for a jaywalking rule.