Clay County, FL Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)

Subsection (h) of the park-conduct ordinance defines "nonmotorized vehicle" expansively: any wheeled vehicle or device lacking a combustion engine or electric motor, expressly naming skateboards, skates, rollerblades, bicycles, and scooters, though the definition is not limited to that list. Operating or using any such device anywhere on a county park, recreation facility, or conservation area defined in subsection (a) is a violation. Subsection (i) allows two exceptions: a county park may post a sign authorizing parking, operation, or use of a nonmotorized vehicle in a designated area, and a bicycle may always be ridden on a park's motor-vehicle driveway or parking lot or parked in a bicycle rack there.

Outside a posted exception, skateboarding, skating, rollerblading, biking, or scooting anywhere else on the property, sidewalks, trails, and open grounds included, violates the section. 3: under subsection (m)(1) the Sheriff of Clay County or a deputy may warn a violator to leave, and disregarding that warning is a separate offense. 083, Florida Statutes, punishable by up to a $500 fine, up to 60 days in the county jail, or both, per subsection (m)(2). Subsection (m)(4) additionally lets the county pursue the violation as a nonexclusive civil infraction under section 15-20, which defaults to a $25 category 1 penalty unless a different category is specified. The ban applies only within county park boundaries in unincorporated Clay County, not on public streets or sidewalks generally.