Marion, OH Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)

Two sections of the Marion Codified Ordinances govern skateboards, and both sit in the Traffic Code. Section 373.10 says no person shall operate a bicycle or skateboard upon a sidewalk, parking area or walkway within a downtown business district, or upon a sidewalk, parking area or walkway where signs are erected prohibiting such operation, during the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. The text as printed names those two hours without the word "between", and it covers two kinds of place: any downtown business district surface, and any other sidewalk, parking area or walkway that the city has posted with a prohibiting sign. Section 373.10 also cross-references the toy vehicle rule in § 311.03.

Section 311.03 handles the street side. No person riding upon any coaster, roller skates, skate boards, sled, toy vehicle or other similar device may go upon a roadway, except while crossing a street on a crosswalk. A person crossing that way is granted all of the rights and is subject to all of the duties applicable to pedestrians. The section does not apply to a street set aside as a play street. Read together, the two sections leave a skateboarder in the City of Marion, Ohio with very little public pavement during business hours in the downtown: not the roadway, and not the downtown sidewalks, parking areas or walkways.

Neither section prints its own penalty. Each closes with "Penalty, see §§ 309.01 and 309.02," so the general Traffic Code penalty applies. Under § 309.02(A)(1) the offense is a minor misdemeanor. Under § 309.01(D) a minor misdemeanor carries a fine of not more than $150. The Marion Division of Police enforces the Traffic Code, and the cases go to the municipal court.