Paraguay E-Scooter Laws: A Confirmed Regulatory Vacuum (2026)

This article is general information about e-scooter rules in Paraguay and is not legal advice. Because this is a confirmed regulatory gap that a pending bill is actively trying to fill, the rule described here can change. Anyone riding or importing an e-scooter in Paraguay should check for updates before assuming this remains current. Information last verified on 23 July 2026.

Are e-scooters legal in Paraguay?

Paraguay does not currently have a law that names or regulates e-scooters, and this article treats that as a genuinely confirmed finding rather than a guess based on silence. Paraguay's National Transit and Road Safety Law, Ley 5016/14, does not mention scooters. On its own, that could simply mean nobody has checked closely enough. What makes this a stronger finding is a second, independent check: the DNCP's own current fines schedule under that law, dated July 2025, the actual document traffic officers use to write tickets. It lists detailed, specific fine line-items for bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles, tricycles, quad vehicles, and cargo motorbikes, covering things like helmet requirements for cyclists and reflective-material rules, and contains zero matches anywhere in the document for "patinete," "monopatin," or "scooter."

That means the gap is not dormant statutory language nobody got around to updating. It is a live absence in the instrument officers are using today: there is currently no fine code for an e-scooter violation in Paraguay, because there is no rule categorizing e-scooters at all.

A second, independent signal points the same direction. On 25 July 2025, Deputy Walter Garcia introduced a bill in Paraguay's Chamber of Deputies specifically to modify Ley 5016 and regulate electric scooters, citing Spanish and French rules as models. A bill to create a rule is itself confirmation, from Paraguay's own legislature, that the rule does not currently exist. As of that filing, it was a proposal, nothing more; this article does not treat it as enacted law.

This is worth saying plainly: a confirmed absence of a rule is not the same thing as e-scooters being legal to ride freely, or as riders having no obligations at all. It means there is no scooter-specific framework, not that ordinary road-user responsibility disappears. General traffic obligations that apply to any road user may still apply informally, even without a scooter-specific fine code to enforce them.

What the pending bill would create

Deputy Garcia's July 2025 bill proposes a definition ("any two-wheeled vehicle, motorized or not, capable of speeds up to 50 km/h"), a mandatory helmet and reflective vest, a minimum age of 18 with a municipal civic-education-course certificate, dedicated lanes, a ban on highway use, and rear reflective materials. None of this is current law. Its status since introduction, whether it has advanced, stalled, or been amended, was not confirmed for this article.

Local and regional variation

Asuncion's own published ordinance listing shows only date ranges and one general transit-related ordinance reference, with no scooter-specific detail visible and no dedicated scooter ordinance located. Whether any other Paraguayan city, such as Ciudad del Este or Encarnacion, has adopted a local ordinance was not checked for this article. Paraguay's Ministry of Public Works and Communications, the ministry responsible for national transport infrastructure, has no published guidance on micromobility or e-scooters on its own site either.

Enforcement in practice

There is currently no scooter-specific rule for police to enforce, because the July 2025 fines schedule under Ley 5016 has no line item for one. General road-user obligations may apply informally to anyone on a scooter, the way they might to any other road user, but that is a different thing from a documented, enforceable scooter rule, and no evidence of either citations or a formal enforcement posture toward e-scooters specifically was found.

No confirmed active rental operator, such as Grin, Movo, or Yego, was found to be operating in Paraguay, which is itself consistent with a market where no regulatory framework exists yet to operate under.

For how Paraguay's position compares with other countries, see the world e-scooter laws guide.