Oxnard, CA Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)

Sec. 7-144 of the Oxnard Code of Ordinances regulates skateboarding, bicycling, roller skating, inline skating, and razor-scooter riding in two settings: public parking lots and private property. In a public parking lot, no one may 'ride, propel or in any manner operate a skateboard, bicycle, roller skates, inline skates, or inline scooter' once the city has posted signs 'informing such person that such uses are prohibited' in that lot. The prohibition does not take effect anywhere the city has not first complied with its own notice rule: signs must sit 'in conspicuously placed locations and in sufficient numbers to adequately notify a person engaging in the prohibited activity,' and must identify, 'in capital letters at least two inches high,' the specific activities banned and cite the section of the code.

The same structure applies to private property: an owner, manager, or other person in charge may bar the same wheeled activities on their lot, but only after posting equivalent two-inch capital-letter signage naming the banned uses and the code section. Because the ordinance is sign-triggered rather than a blanket citywide ban, a rider's liability under Sec. 7-144 turns on whether the specific lot they were in actually carried a compliant posted notice at the time. The section, adopted by Ordinance No. 2767, does not set its own fine schedule, so a violation defaults to the code's general penalty clause, Sec.

1-10: a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $1,000 fine and six months in jail, or, at the city attorney's discretion, an infraction with fines of $100, $200, and $500 for a first, second, and third offense within a year.