Yorba Linda, CA Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)
Key Facts
- Crossing rule
- Crosswalk required, no mid-street crossing
- Minimum block length
- 400 feet for a new mid-block crosswalk
- Crosswalk closures
- Traffic Engineer may post no-crossing signs
- Default penalty
- Up to $1,000 fine or 6 months jail (Sec. 1.12.010)
- Governing chapter
- Chapter 10.24, Pedestrians
Summary
In the City of Yorba Linda, pedestrians must cross a roadway at a marked or intersection crosswalk; the City Code flatly bars crossing anywhere else. The City Traffic Engineer decides where crosswalks go and can post signs closing specific crosswalks to pedestrian use.
§ 10.24.010. City Traffic Engineer—Authority to establish and designate crosswalks. A. The City Traffic Engineer shall establish, designate and maintain crosswalks at intersections and other places by appropriate devices, marks or lines upon the surface of the roadway at roadway intersections and at other places where the City Traffic Engineer determines that there is a particular hazard to pedestrians crossing the roadway, subject to the limitation contained in subsection B of this section. B. Other than crosswalks at intersections, no crosswalk shall be established in any block which is less than four hundred feet in length. ... ... § 10.24.020. City Traffic Engineer—Authority to prohibit use of certain crosswalks. The City Traffic Engineer may place signs at or adjacent to an intersection in respect to any crosswalk directing that pedestrians shall not cross in the crosswalk so indicated. ... ... § 10.24.030. Pedestrians required to use crosswalks. No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than by a crosswalk.
Full Breakdown
Yorba Linda Municipal Code Section 10.24.030 states the rule in a single sentence: "No pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than by a crosswalk." That flat requirement is set within Chapter 10.24, Pedestrians, which also gives the City Traffic Engineer the authority under Section 10.24.010 to establish, designate and maintain crosswalks at intersections and other locations found to pose a particular hazard to crossing pedestrians, subject to a rule in subsection B that a mid-block crosswalk cannot be established on a block shorter than four hundred feet.
Section 10.24.020 lets the Traffic Engineer go the other direction too, posting signs at or near an intersection to direct that pedestrians must not use a specific crosswalk. Together the three sections mean Yorba Linda pedestrians have no general right to cross mid-block outside a marked crosswalk, and even a marked crosswalk can be closed to crossing by posted sign. This tracks the Vehicle Code definitions the chapter's general provisions in Section 10.04.010 borrow when a term is not separately defined in the Municipal Code.
Because Chapter 10.24 does not set its own penalty, a violation of the crosswalk-only rule defaults to the citywide Section 1.12.010 general penalty structure, and officers may also cite the state Vehicle Code's own jaywalking provisions concurrently since Yorba Linda's Traffic Engineer operates within the framework the Vehicle Code establishes for crosswalk placement and marking.
Violations & Fines
Crossing a roadway other than at a crosswalk violates Section 10.24.030 and, since Chapter 10.24 sets no dedicated fine, is punishable under the Section 1.12.010 general penalty of up to a $1,000 fine and up to six months in jail, or the City Attorney may instead charge the violation as a lesser infraction.
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