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Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion
O-3253
Tex. Att'y Gen.
Jul 2, 1941
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*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAi Or TEXAS

AUSTIN

Honorable Ameld Iblth aount~ Attonlej

Hoat@m*ry uount~

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st%on I ban find no oa8oa oe 10 to Artiole Wlb, V~rnon’8 Annotateb 1; ' Peaal$bQI$$$d* at3 followrl v 8, on 1. AIZ vehlolss wed for the transport-

ation 0 pup118 to an&/or any rohool or ool- loge, ahall have a s:gn on the front ana rem and on eaoh rl6e of said vehiole, ahming the YOM@ 'Sohool Bus' and aaM wordr &all be plalnlr read- able In letters not leas than six (6) inohes In height. It shall be the duty of the operator of rueh *&hod Bue' vehiale to eee thst ruoh rlgaa dt6Plawl a6 above PM?&Ued, and it ahall be *2 Aonomble Arnold Smith, -osge Q

unlawful to operate any l uoh lSohool Bue' rehlole un~eeo l uoh l i no 80 Uleplayeii thereon. Uben MJ euab 8 Sohool &to’ tehiolo l tepo, ev- cry operate? of a motor rehtole motor oyolo l p pteae hlng IWO Srw anr diswotien l hlt brrlag rush motor vehiole motor 6~010 to full l top beforr praooodln ln any direotloqi and ia event uah ‘8ehool !!u et rehlele ie re- oOitln(i md/or Ulesharglng paeeengere, raid aperater a? euoh motor rehiale oator- e~ole rho11 not etart up OP attempt to 9aee fn an d:reotlan unttl the eald ‘Soho Burl vehlo T bar flnlehed reoalring and/or &ze- ohar#ng &to pmerengere. 8. Any party who rioldee anr WOotion

02 the 9m~leloar of Beotlon 1 of thir &t ah&U, upon oonvlotlon thereoi, be (uiltr a&r- tlemeaac)r, and upon oonrlotloa thereof, ehall 10.00) Dollare be lined not leee than Ten ( 800.00) Dollerr, nor aore thw tire Runtlred ( % 0P 40!bf1BOd in the 4OUnty Ja%l not to OXOre& nlaet7 (DO) days, or both ruab fine ml ia- prleonmeat~ provided, hoverer, that if death reeulte to a~ pereon, oaueed either actually and/or tlola- OP re80telr by a aonowpllanoe o? any of the provision8 OS thle Aot, tiw the party OP partlee thoa and in event, ohall be puni8hea a8 ie now pro- 80 offoutllnq vided by law.’

Note thnt rtstuts nowhere uee8 the terse “high- tray* publio highway.* The graramen of the oomplrint lo the failure ot 8n operator before prooeedllyl whe- l veP an& wherever eohool bue stepe. to Artlole 82?a,

Permit ua or11 rour attentlon &otion 10, of Vernon’8 Annotated Penal Code, reading ae f0lleve I

VI0 pereon #hell Dark or leave etadling any tehlole, whether attended or unattended, upon the pared or improved or naln

portion a? hlghway, outelde of any lnoor- tom alty, it 18 poeolble to porateb ruoh vehlole tanblng oif of the or Irate pare& Lmproretl or main traveled portion *3 Im0~4 Smith, pace S ~onorrble

of mob hlghwafi pnnldwl, In no event @hall any pem0s park OF leave l tmdlng any rehlole, . uhether attended wmttemled, upon ti;l hi var nnleee a alear end unobetmoted width o not P-

loom than flfteea feet upon the main trateled portion o? eald hi&my opposite euoh etand- tar free paee~e 0r leg rehlole eball be leit ROP unleee olew other rehIole8 thonoa, view o? auoh tehlole ma7 be obtrlaed dLetaeoe in mob dlreatioa upon mu& hlgh- OS 200 feet -Y. lioenee ma %henever pea00 orfiaor of the Dopartaent @hall find lnepeeter

weight +ehlole tm&Iag upon a hi&ray of In rI01atIon provieione of thle eeotlon, he lo hsrebf author- the iirlrer Irrd $4 m0te euoh +ehlale 0): nqulre or poreon %n ohmgo of euoh tehlole to move euoh vehlolr to 8 poeItlon permitted under thle eea- ties. ’

Uader thie hrtlole, any operator of a motor rehlole Inoludlng the operator ol a l 0hool bum, lo requlrod, when parking @topping, If at all p0081b10, to rtop park of? of the potmt, Iupmved 0P main traveled portion of to park In other yorde, an operator 18 alreoted the highwar. leewhere than on the hlghwar properi he 18 d~rooted, ii park upon ‘ehoulder poeeIble, right-of-way ad- jolnllyr the hlghwaf. When St lo oeelble to park of? OS of 18 rtlole 8276, Sootlon 10, the hi&my tlolatIon proper, Ben E. Keith 00. Y. Ninor (TCA 1937) I0 negllgenoe ptk m. 103 B.U. (2dl) 241.~

Am etated by the sourt In Jaokeon v. Edmund (TCA me), 129 8.x (26) sb9t 10 a a8tter of oowon knowledge, am ‘It

~11 am tho rldenoe in the o&me, that inetant paved or hard-•urfaoed portion of a hlghvay lo the ‘main it. It portion’ ie aleo oommoa knowledge the &raveled or my pave& hard-rurraord oalioh houlder for hIghway lo the plaoe rehlolee usually or to ohmgo tire@, eta.” temponr7r repair8 *4 %onorable Arnold Bmith, page 4 You are l o o osblngly sdrma that in our opinion operator oi a motor whlole approaoher a rohool

bus In the ‘sot Of dimharglng parrenger8 Off the “rhouldor” oi right-o?-way OS a publio hIghvaT and he Sails to brt to a b&ore ptooerding, hi8 otionr vi 1 Y hi8 rehlrlr br in vlalatlon al hrtlole N3lb of Vemon’r Annotetcnl Pen- al Cade.

Case Details

Case Name: Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion
Court Name: Texas Attorney General Reports
Date Published: Jul 2, 1941
Docket Number: O-3253
Court Abbreviation: Tex. Att'y Gen.
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