O'Fallon, MO Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Roadway rule
- Crosswalk crossing only, pedestrian duties apply
- Business district
- Sidewalk skateboarding fully prohibited
- Other sidewalks
- Allowed if rider yields to pedestrians
- Signage
- Police Chief/Traffic Engineer may post added bans
- Penalty
- Up to $500 fine or 3 months jail
Summary
O'Fallon bars skateboards from roadways outright, letting riders cross only in a marked crosswalk like a pedestrian, and separately bans skateboarding on sidewalks anywhere inside a business district. Police can post signs extending the ban to specific sidewalks or roadways elsewhere in the City, and ignoring a posted sign is itself a violation.
No person upon roller skates, or riding in or by means of any coaster, toy vehicle, skateboard, or similar device, shall go upon any roadway except while crossing a street on a crosswalk and when so crossing such person shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the duties applicable to pedestrians... No person shall ride a bicycle, coaster, roller skates, skateboard, or similar device upon a sidewalk within a business district... The Chief of Police or City Traffic Engineer is authorized to erect signs on any sidewalk or roadway prohibiting the riding of bicycles, coasters, roller skates, skateboards, and similar devices thereon by any person and when such signs are in place, no person shall disobey the same.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4860992; v58 updated 2026-05-14; through 05-14-2026).
Full Breakdown
040 groups skateboards with roller skates, coasters and toy vehicles under one restriction. Subsection (A) states no person 'riding in or by means of any coaster, toy vehicle, skateboard, or similar device, shall go upon any roadway except while crossing a street on a crosswalk,' and even then the rider takes on a pedestrian's rights and duties rather than a vehicle's. Subsection (B) adds a separate, flat prohibition on riding a bicycle, coaster, skate or skateboard 'upon a sidewalk within a business district,' with no permit or time-of-day exception written into the text.
Outside a business district, Subsection (D) allows sidewalk riding but requires the rider to yield the right-of-way to pedestrians and give an audible signal before passing one. Subsection (C) lets the Chief of Police or the City Traffic Engineer post signs on any sidewalk or roadway citywide prohibiting bicycles, coasters, skates and skateboards, and once posted, disobeying that sign is itself a violation independent of the business-district rule. 010. 010 supplies the fine when Chapter 310 does not spell out its own.
Violations & Fines
Riding a skateboard on a business-district sidewalk or on any roadway outside a marked crosswalk violates Section 310.040 and, absent a specific penalty in the Section itself, is punishable under the City's general penalty provision, Section 100.010: a fine up to $500.00, imprisonment up to three months, or both. Disobeying a posted no-skateboarding sign under Subsection (C) is a separate, independently chargeable violation.
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Sources & Official References
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