Akron, OH Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)

14(A) is a single-sentence, citywide prohibition: no person may use, operate, or ride a skateboard within Akron's city limits after daylight hours. The section does not define 'daylight hours' by a fixed clock time, so enforcement tracks actual sunset and sunrise rather than a set curfew hour, and it applies everywhere in the city rather than singling out downtown or business districts. 06. Subsection (B) sets the penalty directly in the same section: a violation is a misdemeanor of the third degree. 99(C) and (D), a third-degree misdemeanor in Akron carries up to sixty days in jail and a fine of not more than seven hundred fifty dollars, the same maximum that applies to other Title 13 offenses classified at that degree.

14 on the same basis as other general-offense violations in Title 13, and because the section sits in the 'Miscellaneous' chapter rather than the traffic code, it is treated as a criminal offense rather than a traffic infraction. Skateboarders who want to ride after dark within city limits have no statutory path to a permit or waiver under this section; the only variable the ordinance recognizes is whether daylight has ended.