Vermilion Parish, LA Public Conduct: Skateboarding Rules (2026)

Section 40-3 of the Vermilion Parish Code is short, and its wording is specific. It says no person shall be allowed to ride bicycles or wear roller skates and rollerblades or use a skateboard on public building porches, ramps, railings, benches, furniture, etc., to perform tricks, jumps, etc. The Code titles the section a prohibition of bicycles, skates, skateboards, etc., on properties owned by the Police Jury, so the target is trick riding on the built features of parish-owned buildings, not rolling down a road. The Police Jury adopted it in Ord. No. 96-O-24 on 10-7-1996.

The section names the surfaces it protects: porches, ramps, railings, benches and furniture. It names the conduct it prohibits: performing tricks and jumps. It applies to four kinds of wheeled or rolling equipment: bicycles, roller skates, rollerblades and skateboards. A person who simply travels past a parish building on a skateboard is not described in the text; a person who grinds a railing or jumps a ramp is.

Enforcement runs through the Code's general penalty. Section 40-3 sends a violator, upon conviction, to Sec. 1-7, which allows a fine not exceeding $500.00, imprisonment in the parish jail for a term not exceeding 30 days, or both. Sec. 1-7 also allows a maximum of 100 hours of community service to be imposed in addition to, or in lieu of, any penalty. Each act of violation counts as a separate offense unless the violation is continuous, in which case each day is a separate offense.

A separate provision in the same chapter deals with one parish road. On the limited access road to the Port of Vermilion, Sec. 40-17(b) makes it unlawful for any unauthorized pedestrian, jogger or bicyclist to use the roadway, and Sec. 40-17(a) sets a speed limit of 15 miles per hour for motor vehicles there.