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 Los Angeles skateboarders can still make those high-stakes downhill runs known as "bombing" -- they’ll just have to do it upright instead of prone, while also obeying speed limits and yielding to oncoming traffic, thanks to a new city ordinance passed Tuesday. 
 
 The City Council voted to impose various regulations and penalties on “unsafe” skateboarding. Boarders must ride upright, maintain speeds that will not cause harm to themselves or to others and obey all traffic signs. Using vehicles to tow skateboarders will also be prohibited, and speeds while crossing intersections will be limited to 10 mph. Citations will be $250, though authorities say they will issue warnings first. 
 
 Capt. Nancy Lauer of the Harbor division of the Los Angeles Police Department said the ordinance provides important specificity to officers trying to prevent dangerous skateboarding. 
 
 “We’ve not found existing law to be effective,” Lauer said. 
 
 Councilman Joe Buscaino proposed the ordinance to stop the practice of “bombing” in his own district, where he said two skateboarders have died in the past year. 

 Skateboarders on the streets of Los Angeles accustomed to dealing with smog, traffic and security guards now have another force to contend with: a police department that can issue tickets for high-speed or so-called reckless skateboarding. 
 
 On Aug. 7, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved an ordinance that seeks to put an end to "bombing hills," skateboarders' intentional speed runs that sometimes involve weaving through automobile and pedestrian traffic. 
 
 The new law gives police officers the authority to ticket a skater who rides "recklessly or in such a manner or at such a speed as to cause or threaten to cause injury to himself or herself or to others.'' It also makes it illegal to ride a skateboard faster than 10 mph through an intersection or to ride while hanging on to a vehicle, and it requires skateboarders to obey all traffic signs and signals. 
 
 If skaters can find a silver lining in the new law it's that it is a watered-down version of an earlier draft that would have banned skateboarding outright from all city streets and called on officers to confiscate skateboards from offenders. That option was rejected by the Public Safety Committee, according to KPCC public radio. 
 
 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has already said he would sign the new ordinance, backed by Councilman Joe Buscaino, who introduced the issue in early May, he said, in response to the recent deaths of two teenage skateboarders who died while hill-bombing. 
 
 "It's very serious when young, talented lives are lost; we have to respond," Councilman Richard Alarcon told ESPN.com at the time. 
 
 Violators could face an infraction and $250 fine per violation, according to Buscaino's office.
– Los Angeles is clamping down on unsafe skateboarding by coming up with clearer definitions of what counts as dangerous. Under new City Council regulations, high-speed downhill runs known as "bombing" will still be allowed, but skaters will be required to be upright instead of crouching, reports the Los Angeles Times. They are also required to obey a 10mph speed limit when going through intersections, and must obey all traffic signs. Police will have the power to issue $250 fines to offenders. Cops say the new rules, introduced by a city councilman after two young skaters died while hill-bombing, give them the authority they need to tackle reckless skateboarding. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has said he plans to sign the ordinance. The regulations won't be welcomed by skaters who crave speed runs, but they could have had it a lot worse, notes ESPN. An early draft of the new law banned all skateboarding on city streets, and gave police officers the power to seize offenders' skateboards.