Lubbock, TX Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)

004. , though City of Lubbock personnel performing city-related functions are exempt from that closure. Item (2) bans building or maintaining any fire, item (3) bans smoking, and item (4) bars bringing, leading or possessing pets, including dogs, cats and reptiles, on playground grounds. Item (5) is the wheeled-device ban: it is unlawful to ride, drive, propel or carry any bicycle, skateboard, scooter, roller skates, or any other footwear, facility or device containing wheels used to propel or carry a person, within a park playground.

Unlike the closing-hours restriction, the wheeled-device ban carries no time-of-day limit and no exemption for city personnel, so it applies whenever the playground is open. The ordinance is narrower than a citywide skateboarding ban: it reaches only the playground area itself, not park roads, parking lots, or sidewalks elsewhere in the same park, and it does not restrict skateboarding on downtown or business-district sidewalks. 001 separately gives the director of parks and recreation, with city council and park board approval, authority to designate where park and playground activities are allowed and to regulate them for public safety and to prevent congestion.