1. (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. (1) regulating traffic by police officers or traffic-control devices;
   2. (2) regulating the stopping, standing, or parking of a vehicle;
   3. (3) regulating or prohibiting a procession or assemblage on a highway;
   4. (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 Section 551.106;
   5. (5) regulating the time, place, and manner in which a roller skater may use a highway;
   6. (6) regulating the speed of a vehicle in a public park;
   7. (7) regulating or prohibiting the turning of a vehicle or specified type of vehicle at an intersection;
   8. (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. (9) designating a highway as a through highway;
   10. (10) designating a highway as a one-way highway and requiring each vehicle on the highway to move in one specific direction;
   11. (11) designating school crossing guards and school crossing zones;
   12. (12) altering a speed limit as authorized by this subtitle; or
   13. (13) adopting other traffic rules specifically authorized by this subtitle.

2. (b) In this section:

   1. (1) "Roller skater" means a person wearing footwear with a set of wheels attached.

   2. (2) "Through highway" means a highway or a portion of a highway on which:

      1. (A) vehicular traffic is given preferential right-of-way; and
      2. (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. (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.

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1085, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 2001;

Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 359, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.