Texas Transportation Code
§ 545.4191 — PERSON RIDING IN TRAILER OR SEMITRAILER DRAWN BY TRUCK, ROAD TRACTOR, OR TRUCK TRACTOR
TN § 545.4191Title 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Part C. RULES OF THE ROAD · Ch. 545. OPERATION AND MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES · Art. I. MISCELLANEOUS RULES
Statute text
View on source(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;
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 641, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.