Texas § TN.542.202 - POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES

§ TN.542.202. POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES

POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES. (a) This subtitle does not prevent a local authority, with respect to a highway under its jurisdiction and in the reasonable exercise of the police power, from: (1) regulating traffic by police officers or traffic-control devices; (2) regulating the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle; (3) regulating or prohibiting a procession or assemblage on a highway; (4) regulating the operation and requiring registration and licensing of a bicycle or electric bicycle, including payment of a registration fee, except as provided by Section 551.106 ; (5) regulating the time, place, and manner in which a roller skater may use a highway; (6) regulating the speed of a vehicle in a public park; (7) regulating or prohibiting the turning of a vehicle or specified type of vehicle at an intersection; (8) designating an intersection as a stop intersection or a yield intersection and requiring each vehicle to stop or yield at one or more entrances to the intersection; (9) designating a highway as a through highway; (10) designating a highway as a one-way highway and requiring each vehicle on the highway to move in one specific direction; (11) designating school crossing guards and school crossing zones; (12) altering a speed limit as authorized by this subtitle; or (13) adopting other traffic rules specifically authorized by this subtitle. (b) In this section: (1) "Roller skater" means a person wearing footwear with a set of wheels attached. (2) "Through highway" means a highway or a portion of a highway on which: (A) vehicular traffic is given preferential right-of-way; and (B) vehicular traffic entering from an intersecting highway is required by law to yield right-of-way in compliance with an official traffic-control device. (3) "Regulating" means criminal, civil, and administrative enforcement against a person, including the owner or operator of a motor vehicle, in accordance with a state law or a municipal ordinance. Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1085, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 359, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.