Texas Transportation Code Title 7, Chapter 542 - General Provisions
SUBCHAPTER A APPLICABILITY
- Texas Section 542.001 - Vehicles On Highways
A provision of this subtitle relating to the operation of a vehicle applies only to the operation of a vehicle on a highway unless the...
- Texas Section 542.002 - Government Vehicles
A provision of this subtitle applicable to an operator of a vehicle applies to the operator of a vehicle owned or operated by the United...
- Texas Section 542.003 - Animals And Animal-drawn Vehicles
A person riding an animal on a roadway or operating a vehicle drawn by an animal on a roadway has the rights and duties applicable...
- Texas Section 542.004 - Persons And Equipment Engaged In Work On Highway Surface
This subtitle does not apply to a person, team, motor vehicle, or other equipment engaged in work on a highway unless the provision is specifically...
- Texas Section 542.005 - Rules On Private Property
This subtitle does not prevent an owner of private property that is a private road from: (1) regulating or prohibiting use of the property by...
- Texas Section 542.006 - Speed Restrictions On Private Roads
(a) The owners of a majority of the parcels of real property abutting a private road may petition the Texas Transportation Commission to extend the...
- Texas Section 542.007 - Traffic Regulations: Private Subdivision In Certain Counties
(a) This section applies only to a subdivision that is located in the unincorporated area of a county with a population of 500,000 or less....
- Texas Section 542.008 - Traffic Regulations: Private Subdivisions In Certain Municipalities
(a) This section applies only to a subdivision in which the roads are privately owned or maintained that is located in a municipality with a...
- Texas Section 542.0081 - Traffic Regulations: Special District In Certain Counties
(a) This section applies only to a road owned or maintained by a special district that is located in the unincorporated area of a county...
SUBCHAPTER B UNIFORMITY AND INTERPRETATION OF TRAFFIC LAWS
- Texas Section 542.009 - Operators Of Certain Mobility Devices
(a) In this section, "motorized mobility device" means a device designed for transportation of persons with physical disabilities that: (1) has three or more wheels;...
- Texas Section 542.201 - General Rule Of Uniformity
This subtitle applies uniformly throughout this state. A local authority may not enact or enforce an ordinance or rule that conflicts with this subtitle unless...
- Texas Section 542.202 - 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...
- Texas Section 542.203 - Limitation On Local Authorities
(a) A local authority may not erect or maintain a traffic-control device to direct the traffic on a state highway, including a farm-to-market or ranch-to-market...
- Texas Section 542.2035 - Limitation On Municipalities
(a) A municipality may not implement or operate an automated traffic control system with respect to a highway or street under its jurisdiction for the...
- Texas Section 542.204 - Powers Related To Intersections
The Texas Transportation Commission and a local authority may, in a matter of highway or traffic engineering design, consider the separate intersections of divided highways...
- Texas Section 542.205 - Conflict Between This Subtitle And An Order, Rule, Or Regulation Of Certain Agencies
(a) If this subtitle conflicts with an order, rule, regulation, or requirement of the federal Surface Transportation Board or the department relating to a vehicle...
SUBCHAPTER C OFFENSES
- Texas Section 542.206 - Effect Of Speed Limits In A Civil Action
A provision of this subtitle declaring a maximum or minimum speed limit does not relieve the plaintiff in a civil action from the burden of...
- Texas Section 542.301 - General Offense
(a) A person commits an offense if the person performs an act prohibited or fails to perform an act required by this subtitle. (b) Except...
- Texas Section 542.302 - Offense By Person Owning Or Controlling Vehicle
A person who owns a vehicle or employs or otherwise directs the operator of a vehicle commits an offense if the person requires or knowingly...
SUBCHAPTER D PENALTIES AND COSTS OF COURT
- Texas Section 542.303 - Inchoate Offense
(a) A person who attempts to commit or conspires to commit an act declared by this subtitle to be an offense is guilty of the...
- Texas Section 542.401 - General Penalty
A person convicted of an offense that is a misdemeanor under this subtitle for which another penalty is not provided shall be punished by a...
- Texas Section 542.402 - Disposition Of Fines
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b-1), a municipality or county shall use a fine collected for a violation of a highway law in this...
- Texas Section 542.403 - Court Costs
(a) In addition to other costs, a person convicted of a misdemeanor under this subtitle shall pay $3 as a cost of court. (b) The...
- Texas Section 542.4031 - State Traffic Fine
(a) In addition to the fine prescribed by Section 542.401 or another section of this subtitle, as applicable, a person who enters a plea of...
- Texas Section 542.404 - Fine For Offense In Construction Or Maintenance Work Zone
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), if an offense under this subtitle, other than an offense under Chapter 548 or 552 or Section 545.412...
- Texas Section 542.4045 - Penalties For Failure To Yield Right-of-way Offense Resulting In Accident
If it is shown on the trial of an offense under this subtitle in which an element is the failure by the operator of a...
- Texas Section 542.405 - Amount Of Civil Penalty; Late Payment Penalty
If a local authority enacts an ordinance to enforce compliance with the instructions of a traffic-control signal by the imposition of a civil or administrative...
SUBCHAPTER E MISCELLANEOUS
- Texas Section 542.406 - Deposit Of Revenue From Certain Traffic Penalties
(a) In this section, "photographic traffic signal enforcement system" means a system that: (1) consists of a camera system and vehicle sensor installed to exclusively...
- Texas Section 542.501 - Obedience Required To Police Officers And To School Crossing Guards
A person may not wilfully fail or refuse to comply with a lawful order or direction of: (1) a police officer; or (2) a school...
Last modified: September 28, 2016