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Editor’s note–In the 1983 Code of Ordinances,
most of the city traffic ordinances that were derived from the state
traffic law (former article 6701d of Vernon’s Revised Civil
Statutes) were omitted from the code. A provision exempting city vehicles
and public utility vehicles from the traffic chapter was also omitted.
Provisions pertaining to traffic regulations on Texas Technological College Campus have been omitted from the 1983 Code. Such provisions derived from Ordinance 840, secs. 1–5, 9, 11, 12, adopted 12/22/1947; Ordinance 1461, secs. 1–3, 6, 7a, 7b, 8–14, adopted 9/29/1953; and 1959 Code, secs. 18-123–18-132.4. For further information regarding obsolete sections of the 1983 Code, refer to Appendix A of this code.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following phrases, words
and their derivatives shall be construed as defined in this section.
All other words shall have their usual meaning. Whenever a public
official is referred to by only the title of his office, such reference
shall be construed as if followed by the words “of the City
of Lubbock or his authorized deputy,” unless the context indicates
otherwise:
Any public street, typically between fifteen (15) and twenty
(20) feet in width, having no official name, which is designed primarily
for installation of and access to public utilities, as well as providing
access to abutting properties.
Vehicles of the fire department (fire patrol), police vehicles,
public and private ambulances for which permits have been issued by
the state board of health, emergency vehicles of municipal departments
or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by
the governing body of an incorporated city, private vehicles operated
by volunteer firemen or certified emergency medical services volunteers
while answering a fire alarm or responding to a medical emergency
and vehicles operated by blood banks or tissue banks, accredited or
approved under the laws of this state or the United States, while
making emergency deliveries of blood, drugs, medicines or organs.
Every device propelled by human or electric power upon which
any person may ride, having two (2) or more wheels, any of which is
over fourteen (14) inches in diameter.
The portion of one side of a street situated between two
(2) cross streets. An alley shall not be considered as establishing
the boundary of a block for purposes of this chapter.
Every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten (10)
passengers and used for the transportation of persons; and every motor
vehicle, other than a taxicab, designed and used for the transportation
of persons for compensation.
The territory contiguous to and including a highway when
within any six hundred (600) feet along such highway there are buildings
in use for business or industrial purposes, including but not limited
to hotels, banks or office buildings, railroad stations and public
buildings, which occupy three hundred (300) feet of frontage on one
side or three hundred (300) feet collectively on both sides of the
highway.
The chief of police or his or her designee.
The city manager or his or her designee.
The city secretary or his or her designee.
That part of a roadway at an intersection included within
the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite
sides of the highway measured from the curbs or, in the absence of
curbs, from the edges of the traversable roadway; or any portion of
a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for
pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surfaces.
The edge of a street, roadway or highway.
Any gathering or procession of persons for the purpose of
making known their opinion as to any event or matter, which gathering
or procession will involve the use of any public street or alley without
compliance with normal or usual traffic controls.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, upon
a street, roadway or highway in the rear of a vehicle parked with
the front end to the curb of such street, roadway or highway, or alongside
of a vehicle parked parallel with the curb of such street, roadway
or highway.
Every person who drives or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle.
A device for the conversion of the motor of a vehicle from
an internal combustion engine to an air compressor for the purpose
of braking.
A divided arterial through highway with full control of access
and with grade separations at intersections.
A temporary parking pass issued by the city manager under Article 20.04, Parking Stopping and Standing, Division 4. Resident Parking Only Program of this chapter. The pass will be valid for a period of one year.
Any material defined as a “hazardous material”
pursuant to 49 C.F.R. 171.8 (2011) or any amendments thereto.
The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the
lateral curblines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of
the roadways of two (2) streets or highways which join one another
at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles
traveling upon different streets or highways joining at any other
angle may come in conflict.
Where a street or highway includes two (2) roadways thirty (30)
feet or more apart, then every crossing of each roadway of such divided
street or highway by an intersecting street or highway shall be regarded
as a separate intersection. In the event such intersecting street
or highway also includes two (2) roadways thirty (30) feet or more
apart, then every crossing of two (2) roadways of such streets or
highways shall be regarded as a separate intersection.
The junction of an alley with a street or highway shall not
constitute an intersection.
A roadway which is divided into two (2) or more clearly marked
lanes for vehicular traffic.
Every highway, street or roadway in respect to which owners
or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right
of access to or from the same, except at such points only and in such
manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction
over such highway, street or roadway.
Boundaries of parking areas, loading zones, safety or danger
zones, crosswalks and lines marked for the purpose of excluding traffic
and parking.
The space or section of the street adjacent to the curb,
set aside for the exclusive use of loading or unloading passengers,
supplies or merchandise.
A one-block portion of a street containing residential occupancies zoned R-1, R-1A, or R-2 in accordance with chapter 40 of this code. There may be commercial and nonresidential uses within the block, but resident parking only zones shall not be designated adjacent to such commercial or nonresidential occupancies.
A vehicle, machine, tractor, trailer, or semitrailer, or
any combination thereof, propelled or drawn by mechanical power or
by electric power from overhead trolley wires. It does not include
a vehicle, locomotive, or car, operated exclusively on a rail or rails.
Every motor vehicle having a saddle for the use of the rider
and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels in contact
with the ground but excluding a tractor or motor-assisted bicycle.
The want of such care and caution as a person of ordinary
prudence would use under like circumstances.
All signs, signals, markings and devices not inconsistent
with this chapter placed or erected by authority of a public body
or official having jurisdiction, for the purpose of regulating, warning
or guiding traffic.
A person, other than a lien holder, having the property in
or title to a vehicle. The term includes a person entitled to the
use and possession of a vehicle subject to a security interest in
another person, but excludes a lessee under a lease not intended as
security.
Any march or procession consisting of people, animals or
vehicles, or a combination thereof, except funeral processions, upon
any public street or alley, which does not comply with the normal
or usual traffic controls.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.
The space or section of the street adjacent to the curbing
and bounded and indicated by lines or metal markers upon the surface
of the street extending from the curbing into the street.
Any person afoot.
A resident parking only permit issued by the city manager under Article 20.04, Parking Stopping and Standing, Division 4. Resident Parking Only Program of this chapter.
Every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or
to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations.
Every way or place in private ownership and used for vehicular
travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission
from the owner but not by other persons.
A place where people are assembled or to which people commonly
resort for purposes of business, amusement, recreation or other lawful
purposes, and for the purpose of this chapter, the term “public
place” shall include all streets and alleys within the corporate
limits of the city.
A carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than streetcars,
operated upon stationary rails.
Any sign, signal or device erected by authority of a public
body or official or by a railroad and intended to give notice of the
presence of railroad tracks or the approach of a railroad train.
A steam engine, electric or other motor, with or without
cars coupled thereto, operated upon rails, except streetcars.
Any boat, on or off a trailer; any boat trailer; any racecar
or parts, on or off a trailer; any snowmobile, on or off a trailer;
any dune buggy, on or off a trailer; any motorcycle trailer, and any
utility, cargo or stock trailer.
The use of a public street or alley for purposes including,
but not limited to, block parties, marathons, walkathons, bikeathons
and similar recreational events, both charitable and non-charitable,
which do not comply with normal or usual traffic controls.
“Recreational vehicle,” “vacation travel
trailer” and “travel trailer” are used synonymously
and mean a vehicle designed for a temporary or short-term occupancy
for travel, recreational and vacation uses. Such vehicles shall include
any travel trailer, camp trailer, pop-up or tent camper, house trailer,
mobile home, motor home or house car, and any pickup camper, on or
off the pickup, except a simple shell, on the pickup, having no cooking
or bath facilities.
The materials to be transported are hazardous materials and
are in sufficient quantity to require placards in accordance with
the Department of Transportation Hazardous Material Regulations (49
U.S.C.S. section 1801 et seq.) (1990) (Supp. 1994) and 49 C.F.R. 172.500
et seq. (2011) or any amendments thereto.
The territory contiguous to and including a street or highway
not comprising a business district when the property on such street
or highway for a distance of three hundred (300) feet or more is in
the main improved with residences or residences and buildings in use
for business.
Any designated on-street parking spaces within a residential
area where only resident motor vehicles displaying a valid permit
may stop, stand, or park.
The right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful
manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian approaching
under such circumstances of direction, speed and proximity as to give
rise to danger of collision unless one grants precedence to the other.
The area or space officially set apart within a roadway for
the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked
or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times
while set apart as a safety zone.
Every motor vehicle that complies with the color and identification
requirements set forth in the most recent edition of standards as
produced and sponsored by the National Commission on Safety Education
of the National Education Association, Washington, D.C., and is being
used to transport children to or from school or in connection with
school activities, but not including buses operated by common carriers
in urban transportation of school children.
Every device propelled by human or electric power upon which
any person may ride, having a narrow footboard mounted between two
(2) or more wheels with an upright steering handle attached to the
front wheel.
Signs bearing upon their face the word “slow.”
When required, complete cessation of movement.
When prohibited, any halting, even momentarily, of a vehicle,
whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with
other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer
or traffic-control sign or signal.
A temporary parking pass issued by the city manager under Article 20.04, Parking Stopping and Standing, Division 4. Resident Parking Only Program of this chapter. The pass will be valid for a period of one day.
Every street or highway portion thereof on which vehicular
traffic is given preferential right-of-way, and at the entrances to
which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by
law to yield right-of-way to vehicles on such through street or highway
in obedience to a stop sign, yield sign or other official traffic-control
device, when such signs or devices are erected as provided for in
this chapter.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars
and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any
street or highway for purposes of travel.
Any device, whether manually, electrically or mechanically
operated, by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted
to proceed.
Traffic engineer or his or her designee.
To move any motor vehicle requiring placards upon any public
street or highway.
Every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily
for the transportation of property.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a street or highway, except
devices moved by human power, bicycles or scooters moved by electric
power, or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.
Signs bearing upon their face the words “yield right-of-way.”
(Ordinance 564, sec. 1, adopted 5/29/1937; Ordinance 890, art. 1, adopted 11/10/1948; Ordinance 1931, sec. 1, adopted 6/28/1956; 1959 Code, secs. 18-1, 18-103; Ordinance 5173, secs. 1, 4, adopted 12/21/1966; Ordinance 8160, sec. 1, adopted 3/12/1981; Ordinance 8338, sec. 1(a), adopted 7/8/1982; 1983 Code, secs. 16-1, 16-46, 16-179, 16-195, 16-306; Ordinance 9092, sec. 2, adopted 8/13/1987; Ordinance 9874, sec. 1, adopted 1/25/1996; Ordinance 9889, sec. 1, adopted 3/28/1996; Ordinance 10075, sec. 1, adopted 6/11/1998; Ordinance 2003-O0030, sec. 1,
adopted 4/24/2003; Ordinance
2012-O0032, sec. 1, adopted 4/10/2012; Ordinance 2017-O00159, sec. 57, adopted 12/18/2017; Ordinance 2018-O0117, sec. 2, adopted 9/27/2018)
The motor vehicle code of the state (article 6701d, Revised
Civil Statutes), as amended, is hereby adopted as the motor vehicle
code of the city, with the additions contained in this chapter.
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Editor’s note–Since adoption of this
provision, the regulations contained in the Uniform Act Regulating
Traffic on Highways (V.T.C.S., article 6701d) have been recodified
and are now located in V.T.C.A., Transportation Code.
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(1983 Code, sec. 16-2; Ordinance
2012-O0032, sec. 1, adopted 4/10/2012)
It is unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person to do any act
forbidden or to fail to perform any act required in this chapter.
(1959 Code, sec. 18-18; 1983 Code,
sec. 16-43; Ordinance 2012-O0032, sec. 1, adopted 4/10/2012)
No person shall board or alight from any vehicle while such
vehicle is in motion.
(1959 Code, sec. 18-7; 1983 Code,
sec. 16-17; Ordinance 2012-O0032, sec. 1, adopted 4/10/2012)
No person shall ride on any vehicle upon any portion thereof
not designed or intended for the use of passengers. This provision
shall not apply to an employee engaged in the necessary discharge
of a duty, or to persons riding within truck bodies in space intended
for merchandise.
(1959 Code, sec. 18-8; 1983 Code,
sec. 16-18; Ordinance 2012-O0032, sec. 1, adopted 4/10/2012)
No person upon roller skates or riding in or by means of any
coaster, toy vehicle or similar device shall go upon any roadway,
except while crossing a street on a crosswalk, and when so crossing
such person shall be granted all of the rights and shall be subject
to all of the duties applicable to pedestrians.
(1959 Code, sec. 18-9; 1983 Code,
sec. 16-19; Ordinance 2012-O0032, sec. 1, adopted 4/10/2012)
No person shall, within the limits of this city, place any sticker,
poster, paper or tag in, on or upon any vehicle not the property of
the person so performing such act. This section shall not apply to
any peace officer in the discharge of the duty of having cars tagged
for violation of laws or ordinances.
(Ordinance 264, secs. 1, 2, adopted 8/14/1924; 1959 Code, sec. 18-11; 1983 Code, sec. 16-20; Ordinance
2012-O0032, sec. 1, adopted 4/10/2012)
