Westminster, CA Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

010 gives the city traffic engineer authority to establish and mark crosswalks at intersections citywide and, outside the central traffic district, wherever a location poses a particular hazard to crossing pedestrians; subsection B bars any midblock crosswalk from being installed on a block shorter than 400 feet, and any midblock crossing must sit as close to the block's center as practicable. Subsection C lets the traffic engineer post signs at a marked crosswalk directing pedestrians not to use it. 020 then narrows the crosswalk-use requirement geographically: a pedestrian may not cross a roadway other than by a crosswalk while inside the central traffic district or any business district, meaning the mandatory-crosswalk rule does not reach residential streets outside those districts.

030 separately requires pedestrians to obey dedicated pedestrian signals where installed, and to disregard a vehicular signal at any location carrying a separate pedestrian signal. 2, part of the city's original 1978-era traffic ordinance still codified today.