York County, PA Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)

York County treats skateboards as a security exclusion, not a traffic-code matter, when it comes to county buildings. H, part of the county's Courthouse and Government Center security ordinance, lists skateboards by name among seven items nobody may bring into the Courthouse or any other county building without written authorization from the Sheriff: bicycles, roller skates, skateboards, roller blades, scooters, wagons and shopping carts. The only people exempted from that list are disabled persons using a scooter or self-propelled vehicle to get around; everyone else has to leave a skateboard outside or seek the Sheriff's written sign-off before an item on the list ever crosses the threshold.

This sits inside a broader entry-procedures scheme: § 85-2 puts the Sheriff in charge of overall security, and county buildings covered by controlled-entry rules require everyone, employees, jurors, group visitors and members of the public alike, to pass a security checkpoint. F bans skateboards, along with scooters and hoverboards, anywhere in the county park system, with the same ADA-accommodation exception. Between the two provisions, skateboarding is off-limits at both the county's civic buildings and its parks, even though neither section addresses skateboarding on ordinary borough or township streets and sidewalks, which fall outside county authority.