(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 § 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.

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Terms Used In Texas Transportation Code 542.202

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005