Redlands, CA Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Sidewalk ban
- Applies to any sidewalk in a business district
- Parking facility ban
- Bicycles, skates, skateboards barred inside
- Enforcement exception
- City's bicycle-mounted police team only
- Defined by
- Vehicle Code § 235 business district definition
- Citation deadline
- 30 days to pay before added infraction
Summary
Redlands bans skateboarding, roller skating and bicycling on any sidewalk within a business district, and bans all three, with a law enforcement exception, inside any municipal parking facility, under Redlands City Code § 10.44.060.
A. It is unlawful for any person to ride upon any bicycle, roller skate or skates, skateboard, or other similar contrivance in any municipal parking facility, except authorized law enforcement personnel of the city's bicycle mounted enforcement team. B. It is unlawful for any person to ride upon any bicycle, roller skate or skates, skateboard, or other contrivance upon any sidewalk within any business district within the city of Redlands, except for authorized law enforcement personnel of the city. Business district means any business district as defined by section 235 of the California Vehicle Code.
Full Breakdown
44 governing municipal parking facilities, contains Redlands' general sidewalk and parking-facility restriction on wheeled recreation. 010 as any city-owned, leased or operated lot, garage or structure used for public off-street parking; the only exception is the city's bicycle-mounted police enforcement team. Subsection B extends the ban to sidewalks: it is unlawful to ride a bicycle, roller skates, a skateboard or other contrivance on any sidewalk located within a business district, with business district defined by reference to California Vehicle Code section 235, again excepting on-duty law enforcement personnel.
The current text traces to Ordinance 2718 in 2009, amending an earlier 1992 version, Ordinance 2206, and the prior code's section 62104. Outside business-district sidewalks and municipal parking facilities, Redlands' skate park operates under its own separate rules and hours posted by the Facilities and Community Services Director, who may eject or expel anyone violating posted skate park regulations.
Violations & Fines
Enforcement of section 10.44.060 falls to the chief of police, who under section 10.44.080 carries it out through parking control officers and city police officers, who may issue a written citation under section 10.44.100 in the same form used for other city and state traffic citations. Because the chapter treats the offense as a parking-facility and traffic-related violation rather than a listed misdemeanor, penalties follow the standard citation and infraction process, and failure to pay within 30 days becomes a separate infraction under section 10.44.120.
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