Bossier City, LA Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)

Section 110-39 sits in Chapter 110, Article II (Traffic and Vehicles) and addresses two separate bans in one sentence-pair. The first sentence outlaws riding a "motor-driven vehicle" on any sidewalk, drainage ditch, embankment or levee constructed within the city, a broad rule covering the entire city regardless of location. The second sentence, aimed squarely at shopping centers, makes it unlawful to ride a bicycle, skateboard, scooter, roller blades or roller skates on any sidewalk of any shopping center in Bossier City, meaning riders on ordinary residential or downtown sidewalks are not swept in unless a shopping center is involved.

The section carries no dedicated fine schedule of its own, so Sec. 1-9's general penalty controls: a fine not exceeding $500.00, imprisonment not exceeding 60 days, or both, with the court deciding within its discretion, and each day a violation continues counts as a separate offense. Bossier City Police officers write the citations; the rule traces to Code 1980, § 17-31 and sits alongside the city's broader speed and traffic rules in Chapter 110, Article II. Because the shopping center clause names bicycles and skates as well as skateboards, a skateboarder cited on a shopping center's sidewalk faces the same exposure as a cyclist doing the same thing, and mall or strip-center property managers can lean on this section, not just their own trespass policy, to have police move riders off the walkway.