Solano County, CA Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)

Solano County Code Section 21-18 draws its authority directly from state Vehicle Code sections 21113(f), 21967, and 21969, which let a local authority regulate skateboards, roller skates, and bicycles on public property under its jurisdiction. Rather than a blanket county-wide ban, the ordinance works through designation and posting: no person may ride, propel, or operate a skateboard, scooter, roller skates, or bicycle on public property under Solano County's jurisdiction once that property has been designated and posted as an area where the activity is prohibited.

The County Administrator or a designee holds the authority to make that designation and to put up the signage that triggers the prohibition, meaning the rule's actual reach depends on where signs have gone up, such as courthouse plazas, county administration building grounds, or specific park pathways where boards and skates create a collision hazard with pedestrians or vehicles. Because the ordinance is enacted under Article I of Chapter 21, Public Peace and Safety, alongside disturbing the peace and firearms discharge, a violation is treated as a public offense under that chapter rather than a civil infraction handled administratively.

The ordinance predates several later amendments to Chapter 21 (it traces to Ordinance No. 1665, carried forward through Ordinance No. 1691) and has not been narrowed since, so it still covers in-line skates and scooters even though the section heading lists them by their 1990s-era names. Riders on unposted county property, meaning property where no sign has been installed under this authority, are not in violation of Section 21-18 itself.