Texas Statutes
§ 545.4191 — PERSON RIDING IN TRAILER OR SEMITRAILER DRAWN BY TRUCK, ROAD TRACTOR, OR TRUCK TRACTOR.
Texas § 545.4191
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Bluebook
Tex. Transportation Code Code Ann. § 545.4191 (2026).
Text
Sec. 545.4191. PERSON RIDING IN TRAILER OR SEMITRAILER DRAWN BY TRUCK, ROAD TRACTOR, OR TRUCK TRACTOR.
(a)A person may not operate a truck, road tractor, or truck tractor when another person occupies a trailer or semitrailer being drawn by the truck, road tractor, or truck tractor.
(b)It is a defense to prosecution under this section that:
(1)the person was operating or towing the vehicle:
(A)in a parade or in an emergency;
(B)to transport farmworkers from one field to another field on a farm-to-market road, ranch-to-market road, or county road outside a municipality; or
(C)in a hayride permitted by the governing body of or a law enforcement agency of each county or municipality in which the hayride will occur;
(2)the person operating or towing the vehicle did not know that another
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Legislative History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 641, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Nearby Sections
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§ 545.001
DEFINITIONS.§ 545.002
OPERATOR.§ 545.051
DRIVING ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROADWAY.§ 545.054
PASSING TO THE LEFT: SAFE DISTANCE.§ 545.055
PASSING TO THE LEFT: PASSING ZONES.§ 545.057
PASSING TO THE RIGHT.§ 545.058
DRIVING ON IMPROVED SHOULDER.§ 545.061
DRIVING ON MULTIPLE-LANE ROADWAY.§ 545.062
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