Are electric skateboards legal in Montréal?

Each row is the statute's own content, reduced to plain wording where it is long and quoted directly where the exact words matter. The section in the last column is a link to the text.

• R.R.V.M., c. C-4.1 (Ville-Marie consolidation, 5 Sept. 2026), art. 23 — Règlement sur la circulation et le stationnement – arrondissement de Ville-Marie. Official source, read 2026-09-27.
  Office consolidation published on montreal.ca (by-law record https://montreal.ca/reglements-municipaux/recherche/60d7ca18fd6531282659b299), including CA-24-414. In French.
• R.R.V.M., c. C-4.1 (Le Plateau-Mont-Royal consolidation), art. 24.1 and 24.3 — Règlement sur la circulation et le stationnement – arrondissement du Plateau-Mont-Royal. Official source, read 2026-09-27.
  Office consolidation published on montreal.ca (by-law record https://montreal.ca/reglements-municipaux/recherche/67f50804e2dfea2be49cdf2f), amendments through by-law 2025-05. Other boroughs have their own consolidations, which we did not read. In French.
• Règlement 10-020, art. 1, 9 and 12 — Règlement sur les parcs relevant de la compétence du conseil municipal de la Ville de Montréal (10-020). Official source, read 2026-09-27.
  Office consolidation dated 3 May 2022, the latest listed on the by-law record https://montreal.ca/reglements-municipaux/recherche/60d7c992fd6531463b59b025. Applies to parks under city council (e.g. parc La Fontaine, parc Jarry, parc Maisonneuve); borough parks have their own rules. In French.
• Ville de Montréal, Règlements dans les parcs — Règlements dans les parcs. Official source, read 2026-09-27.
  City information page, not by-law text. In French.

Every source on this page is the text as published by the legislature or the state agency itself. Open them.

What one costs today. The cheapest complete electric skateboard in stock at a shop we read is 38" Hurricane Electric Longboard Electronic Skateboard, at US$240 (the cheapest one, tracked daily). 34 boards under $500 · 94 under $1,000 — every price checked at the shop, not copied from an ad. The full picture, from entry boards to the top of the range: how much an electric skateboard costs.

Buying in Canada. Electric skateboards from the 40 shops we read there, priced in the currency they charge.

Deciding between a board and a single wheel? Onewheel or electric skateboard. A word in the texts above you do not know? The glossary.

The same four questions, across every jurisdiction whose primary sources we have read. Neighbouring jurisdictions link to their own page and citations; every other one is a click away on the full list.

The spread is the point. These are neighbouring jurisdictions regulating the same object, and they do not agree on what it is, how fast it may go, who may ride it, or whether it may be ridden at all. A rider who crosses a state line is, quite often, subject to a different legal category rather than a stricter version of the same one — which is why a single national answer to this question does not exist and why anyone offering you one has stopped reading the law.

It also explains why so many rows say the device is unaddressed. Most vehicle codes were written before this machine existed, and a legislature that has not revisited them has not thereby permitted anything — it has left the question to a general classification and to your city.

No text we read for Montréal names a board with a single wheel. The reading above is for electric skateboards; whether a Onewheel falls in the same class, another one or none is a question the statutes here do not answer, and neither do we. 11 jurisdictions do name it — Are Onewheels legal?

• It is not legal advice, and it never says you may ride. It says what the statute says, and links it.
• It does not repeat Quebec law. The city's rules sit on top of it; read that page too. Park, transit and campus rules can add more.
• It does not cover private property, insurance, or what happens after an accident.
• It may be out of date. Every source carries the day we read it. A statute amended since then will not have updated itself here.

Across the border: Quebec. Every other jurisdiction: the full list.

Are electric skateboards legal in Montréal?

No law we can find defines an electric skateboard. What applies instead is a general vehicle classification and, in practice, your municipality. No Montréal by-law we read names the electric skateboard. Traffic rules are set borough by borough under the former city's by-law R.R.V.M., c. C-4.1, and they differ: in Ville-Marie (downtown), art. 23 keeps bicycle lanes for bicycles and roller skates; in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, art. 24.3 limits skateboards to bike paths and multi-use trails. In the large parks under city council (By-law 10-020), off-road vehicles are banned, a category that ends with any other “véhicule motorisé destiné à circuler en dehors des chemins publics” (our translation: any other motorized vehicle intended to travel off public roads); the by-law does not say whether a motorized board is one. Quebec provincial law (the Highway Safety Code) also applies on top of these city rules; see the Quebec page.

Is a Onewheel legal in Montréal?

No statute we read for Montréal names a board with a single wheel, so the law there does not answer directly. For electric skateboards, the status we found is: no statute names the device. Only 11 of the 99 jurisdictions we read name a one-wheel board: Utah, Quebec, Queensland, Tasmania, Seattle, South Korea, Belgium, British Columbia, New York, Victoria, the Netherlands.

Do I need a helmet in Montréal?

No rule naming this device addresses helmets in the sources we have read for Montréal. Your municipality may have one.

How fast am I allowed to go in Montréal?

By-law 10-020, art. 12: whoever travels by bicycle, on in-line skates “ou par tout autre moyen de locomotion doit” (our translation: or by any other means of locomotion must), among other duties, “circuler à une vitesse n’excédant pas 20 km/h” (our translation: travel at a speed not exceeding 20 km/h). That is Règlement 10-020, art. 1, 9 and 12.

Does state law still apply in the city?

Yes. This page reads the city's own code; Quebec law applies on top of it, and where the two differ, the stricter rule is the one you meet on the street. The state reading is on its own page, with its own sources.

How do I check this myself?

Open the links in the sources below. Every row in the table above names the section it comes from, and every source shows the date we read it. That is the whole point of the page: you should not have to take our word for it.