§ 21225 Local Scooter Regulation

Vehicle Code·California

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This law lets cities and towns make their own rules for motorized scooters, like where you can park or ride them, as long as their rules don’t break the state’s rules.

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•Cities can make rules about scooters, like where to ride or park them.
•Local rules can’t go against the state’s rules.
•This only applies to motorized scooters, not bikes or cars.

Example

A city decides scooters can’t be ridden on sidewalks.

The city can make this rule because the law allows local places to set their own scooter rules, as long as they don’t conflict with bigger state rules.

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§ 21225 Local Scooter Regulation

This article does not prevent a local authority, by ordinance, from regulating the registration of motorized scooters and the parking and operation of motorized scooters on pedestrian or bicycle facilities and local streets and highways, if that regulation is not in conflict with this code. (Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 755, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 2005.)

Last verified: January 9, 2026

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motorized scooters local authority ordinance pedestrian or bicycle facilities

References

Official text at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
California Legislature. Vehicle Code. Section 21225.

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