Florissant, MO Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)

Section 310.045, "Use of Skateboards," appears in Chapter 310, "Enforcement and Obedience To Traffic Regulations," part of the Title III traffic code. It reads in full: no person shall ride or use a skateboard in the streets, roads or highways or on the property of any shopping center located within the City limits. That single sentence does two things at once: it keeps skateboards out of roadway traffic exactly like the neighboring Section 310.040, which restricts roller skates and coasters to crosswalks, and it separately bans skateboarding on shopping-center property, which is the closest thing the code has to a business-district restriction.

The ban is not limited to riding in traffic lanes; the shopping-center clause reaches parking lots, sidewalks and other property within a shopping center regardless of vehicle traffic. Neither this section nor its neighbors were amended by a later ordinance number, unlike Section 310.047, the motorized-scooter rule that was updated by Ordinance No. 7931 in 2012; Section 310.045 carries only its original 1980/1990 code citation. City parks are handled separately: a cross-reference in the parks chapter notes that bicycles, scooters, roller blades, roller skates and skateboards ridden in violation of Section 385.125 in a City park can result in removal from the park or the Section 100.080 general penalty, so a skateboarder passing between a shopping center and a City park is subject to two different sections depending on location. Section 310.045 itself carries no separate penalty clause, so enforcement again falls to the citywide general penalty.