Fresno, CA Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)

Section 14-1805 sits in Chapter 14, Article 18, "Traffic Regulations in Mall, Alleys in the Mall Area and Service Areas," alongside the vehicle ban in Section 14-1801 and the peddling ban in Section 14-1806. Section 14-1801(f) and (g) name the actual streets covered: Mariposa Mall, Kern Mall, and the Historical Mall Streets of Fulton Street (between Tuolumne and Inyo), Merced Street, Mariposa Street, and Kern Street, each bounded by specific cross-streets and alleys from the old Fulton Mall pedestrian district. The same article bars vehicles from marking, staining, or damaging a mall surface under Section 14-1801(b), showing the surface-and-pedestrian-protection rationale that also underlies the skate ban.

Article 18 has no dedicated fine schedule of its own, so a Section 14-1805 citation defaults to the Code's general violation provision, Section 1-304: an infraction carrying $100 for a first offense, $200 for a second offense within a year, and $500 for each later offense within that year, or, at the City Attorney's discretion, a misdemeanor punishable by up to $1,000 and a year in the Fresno County jail. Enforcement of the mall traffic article generally falls to the Chief of Police under Section 14-1801(e).

Because the ban is tied to the specific named mall streets rather than downtown generally, ordinary downtown sidewalks and roadways that were never designated as mall streets are not covered by Section 14-1805.