Santee, CA Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)

Section 10.22.020 targets three specific situations rather than banning skateboarding outright. First, riding on any roadway in the City of Santee is unlawful regardless of traffic conditions, treating the street surface itself as off-limits to boards, scooters, roller skates and similar toy vehicles. Second, sidewalk riding is only unlawful when done in such proximity to vehicles or pedestrians that it creates a hazard to those vehicles, pedestrians, the operator, or other persons, so casual sidewalk use away from foot traffic is not automatically a violation.

Third, the code reaches business districts directly: riding is prohibited on any public plaza, in any business district, or on private parking lots and property open to the public wherever the owner has posted signs forbidding the activity, giving Trolley Square and similar commercial areas a posting-based enforcement tool. Because the section sits in Title 10 (Vehicles and Traffic) rather than a standalone skate-park chapter, City of Santee code enforcement and Sheriff's deputies working the Santee Station contract cite it under the Municipal Code's general violation framework in Section 1.04.050, which lets the City Attorney charge a code violation as either a misdemeanor or, at the prosecutor's discretion, a lesser infraction.

Riders cited for roadway or hazardous sidewalk riding face that same infraction-or-misdemeanor exposure, while a posted-property violation depends on the property owner's signage actually being displayed at the time.