Overland Park, KS Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Flat fine
- $25.00 for any violation, per 12.04.136(c)
- Downtown ban
- No skateboards on Downtown Business District lots/sidewalks
- Posted zone
- Banned inside I-435/Antioch/College Blvd/Hwy 69 area
- Trail exception
- Indian Creek Bike-Hike Trail and parkland stay open
- Yield rule
- Riders must yield to pedestrians, signal before passing
- Signage required
- Posted notice needed to enforce zone/private-lot bans
Summary
Overland Park Municipal Code 12.04.136 bans skateboards, roller skates, roller blades and similar devices from the Downtown Business District, from public roadways, tennis courts and parking lots, and from a large posted zone bounded by I-435, Antioch Road, College Boulevard and Highway 69. Riders on approved paths must yield to pedestrians. Violations carry a flat $25.00 fine.
a. No person upon roller skates, or riding in or by means of any coaster, roller blades, skateboard, toy vehicle, or similar device shall operate such a device on: 1. any sidewalk or public or private parking lot in the Downtown Business District of the City of Overland Park as defined by O.P.M.C. 2.14.010; or 2. any portion of the City within an area bordered by Highway I-435 on the north, Antioch Road on the east, College Boulevard on the south and Highway 69 on the west, excepting the Indian Creek Bike-Hike Trail and public parkland within said area... b. Whenever any person is operating such a device upon a useable path for their operation or sidewalk, such person shall yield the right of way to any pedestrian and shall give an audible signal before overtaking and passing such pedestrian. c. Any person found guilty of a violation of this section shall be fined $25.00.
Full Breakdown
136 restricts where roller skates, coasters, roller blades, skateboards, toy vehicles and similar devices may be operated. C. 010, and within a large posted area bounded by Highway I-435 on the north, Antioch Road on the east, College Boulevard on the south and Highway 69 on the west, except that riders may still use the Indian Creek Bike-Hike Trail and public parkland inside that zone once the city posts the required notice signage at street and trail entrances. Citywide, the devices are also barred from any roadway unless no usable path or sidewalk exists alongside it or the street has been temporarily designated a play street, from any public tennis court, from any public parking area or lot, and from any private parking lot or private, unoccupied commercial property once the owner posts the code-specified notice sign.
Where riders do use a path or sidewalk lawfully, subsection (b) requires them to yield the right of way to pedestrians and give an audible signal before passing. 00 flat fine for any violation of the section, regardless of which restricted area is involved.
Violations & Fines
Every violation of Section 12.04.136, whether riding downtown, inside the posted I-435/Antioch/College/Highway 69 zone, on a barred roadway or in a posted private lot, carries the same flat penalty: a $25.00 fine on conviction, set directly by subsection (c) rather than the chapter's general $500 traffic penalty. Enforcement in the posted zone and posted private lots depends on the city or owner actually installing the notice signage the ordinance requires.
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