Elkhart County, IN Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

01, printed under the heading Bridges, Rights-of-Way and Easements, lists four things no one may do on county property: post or place printed matter on a county bridge; camp on, or otherwise use, a county-owned or possessed path or passage to reside, sleep, cook or picnic; block, impede or interfere with anyone's ingress and egress to and from bodies of water while moving on or across county property, including county officials and employees; or put, throw, dump or leave refuse or litter of any type within a county easement, right-of-way, path or passage.

The section traces to an order the County Commissioners issued on December 4, 1877, and was carried forward through amendments in 1977, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1988 and 1990 before landing in its current form. 01 is the operative obstruction rule for county-controlled paths, easements and rights-of-way outside city and town limits; incorporated municipalities such as Goshen and Elkhart maintain their own sidewalk and right-of-way ordinances for property inside their boundaries. 99(A), which classifies a violation as an ordinance violation carried by ordinary county code enforcement rather than a criminal charge, but still exposes the violator to a court judgment.