San Bernardino, CA Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

030(A) declares public streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and the stairways, escalators, passageways and entrances of city-owned buildings and malls must be kept reserved free from all obstructions, including obstructions by human beings. Subsection (B) makes it unlawful to willfully and maliciously stand, sit in, obstruct or occupy a public street, sidewalk or crosswalk, or a public building's stairway, passageway, entrance or exit, so as to obstruct free passage or hinder, molest or annoy anyone passing along. 090 bars using public sidewalks to display goods, wares or merchandise, or leaving boxes, barrels, cases or packages that obstruct free use and passage of the street.

100 requires the owner or person in charge of delivered goods to remove them from the sidewalk immediately, or within four hours for bulky items too large to move right away; pending removal, those items must sit at the outer edge of the sidewalk with their inner line parallel to and no more than three feet from the curb line, preserving a clear inner walking path. 04).