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Traffic Flashcards

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Define Authorized Emergency Vehicle

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fire department or police vehicle
public or private ambulance operated by licensed responder
Texas Emergency Management Vehicle
Municipal/Public Emergency Vehicle
Private vehicle of responding EMS/Firefighter
Blood/Tissue Bank while making emergency deliveries

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Define Bicycle

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device that a person may ride and that is propelled by human power and has two tandem wheels at least one of which is more than 14 inches in diameter.

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Define Bus

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Holds more than 10 people including operator or, other than a taxicab, for compensation

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Define Farm Tractor

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motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement to draw an implement of husbandry, including a plow or a mowing machine

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Define House Trailer

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trailer or semitrailer, other than a towable recreational vehicle that is
(A) is transportable on a highway in one or more sections;
(B) is less than 40 feet in length, excluding tow bar, while in the traveling mode;
(C) is built on a permanent chassis;
(D) is designed to be used as a dwelling or for commercial purposes if connected to required utilities; and
(E) includes plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems.

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Define Implement of Husbandry

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vehicle, other than a passenger car or truck, that is designed and adapted for use as a farm implement, machinery, or tool for tilling the soil.

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Define Light Truck

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truck, including a pickup truck, panel delivery truck, or carryall truck, that has a manufacturer’s rated carrying capacity of 2,000 pounds or less.

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Define Moped

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motor-driven cycle that cannot attain a speed in one mile of more than 30 miles per hour and the engine of which:
(A) cannot produce more than two-brake horsepower; and
(B) if an internal combustion engine, has a piston displacement of 50 cubic centimeters or less and connects to a power drive system that does not require the operator to shift gears.

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Define Motorcycle

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motor vehicle, other than a tractor, that is equipped with a rider’s saddle and designed to have when propelled not more than three wheels on the ground.

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Define Motor-Driven cycle

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motorcycle equipped with a motor that has an engine piston displacement of 250 cubic centimeters or less. The term does not include an electric bicycle.

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Define Motor vehicle

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self-propelled vehicle or a vehicle that is propelled by electric power from overhead trolley wires (NOT personally assistive motor vehicles)

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Define Multifunction School Activity Bus

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motor vehicle that was manufactured in compliance with the federal motor vehicle safety standards for school buses in effect on the date of manufacture other than the standards requiring the bus to display alternately flashing red lights and to be equipped with movable stop arms, and that is used to transport preprimary, primary, or secondary students on a school-related activity trip other than on routes to and from school. The term does not include a school bus, a school activity bus, a school-chartered bus, or a bus operated by a mass transit authority.

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Define Passenger Car

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motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle, used to transport persons and designed to accommodate 10 or fewer passengers, including the operator.

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Define Pole Trailer

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a vehicle without motive power:
(A) designed to be drawn by another vehicle and secured to the other vehicle by pole, reach, boom, or other security device; and
(B) ordinarily used to transport a long or irregularly shaped load, including poles, pipes, or structural members, generally capable of sustaining themselves as beams between the supporting connections.

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Define Police Vehicle

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Police vehicle, or privately owned police officer’s vehicle if approved by the head of the law enforcement officer.

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Define Road Tractor

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motor vehicle designed and used to draw another vehicle but not constructed to carry a load independently or a part of the weight of the other vehicle or its load.

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Define School Activity Bus

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a bus designed to accommodate more than 15 passengers, including the operator, that is owned, operated, rented, or leased by a school district, county school, open-enrollment charter school, regional education service center, or shared services arrangement and that is used to transport public school students on a school-related activity trip, other than on routes to and from school. The term does not include a chartered bus, a bus operated by a mass transit authority, a school bus, or a multifunction school activity bus.

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Define School Bus

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a motor vehicle that was manufactured in compliance with the federal motor vehicle safety standards for school buses in effect on the date of manufacture and that is used to transport pre-primary, primary, or secondary students on a route to or from school or on a school-related activity trip other than on routes to and from school. The term does not include a school-chartered bus or a bus operated by a mass transit authority.

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Define Semi-Trailer

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a vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer:
(A) designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to transport persons or property; and
(B) constructed so that part of the vehicle’s weight and load rests on or is carried by another vehicle.

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Define Special Mobile Equipment

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a vehicle that is not designed or used primarily to transport persons or property and that is only incidentally operated on a highway. The term:
(A) includes ditchdigging apparatus, well boring apparatus, and road construction and maintenance machinery, including an asphalt spreader, bituminous mixer, bucket loader, tractor other than a truck tractor, ditcher, levelling grader, finishing machine, motor grader, road roller, scarifier, earth-moving carryall and scraper, power shovel or dragline, or self-propelled crane and earth-moving equipment; and
(B) excludes a vehicle that is designed to transport persons or property and that has machinery attached, including a house trailer, dump truck, truck-mounted transit mixer, crane, and shovel.

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Define Towable Recreational Vehicle

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a nonmotorized vehicle that:
(A) is designed:
(i) to be towable by a motor vehicle; and
(ii) for temporary human habitation for uses including recreational camping or seasonal use;
(B) is permanently built on a single chassis;
(C) may contain one or more life-support systems; and
(D) may be used permanently or temporarily for advertising, selling, displaying, or promoting merchandise or services, but is not used for transporting property for hire or for distribution by a private carrier.

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Define Trailer

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a vehicle, other than a pole trailer, with or without motive power:
(A) designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to transport persons or property; and
(B) constructed so that no part of the vehicle’s weight and load rests on the motor vehicle.

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Define Truck

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a motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily to transport property.

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Define Truck Tractor

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a motor vehicle designed and used primarily to draw another vehicle but not constructed to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the other vehicle and its load.

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Define Vehicle

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a device that can be used to transport or draw persons or property on a highway. The term does not include:
(A) a device exclusively used on stationary rails or tracks; or
(B) manufactured housing as that term is defined by Chapter 1201, Occupations Code.

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Define Electric Bicycle

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a bicycle that:
(A) is designed to be propelled by an electric motor, exclusively or in combination with the application of human power;
(B) cannot attain a speed of more than 20 miles per hour without the application of human power; and
(C) does not exceed a weight of 100 pounds.

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Define Person

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“Person” means an individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation.

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Define Motor Carrier

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a

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Define Operator

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“Operator” means, as used in reference to a vehicle, a person who drives or has physical control of a vehicle.

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Define Owner

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One who has a property interest in or title to a vehicle. The term:
(A) includes a person entitled to use and possess a vehicle subject to a security interest; and
(B) excludes a lienholder and a lessee whose lease is not intended as security.

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Define Pedestrian

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“Pedestrian” means a person on foot.

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Define Person

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“Person” means an individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation.

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Define School Crossing Guard

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“School crossing guard” means a responsible person who is at least 18 years of age and is designated by a local authority to direct traffic in a school crossing zone for the protection of children going to or leaving a school.

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Define Department

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“Department” means the Department of Public Safety acting directly or through its authorized officers and agents.

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Define Director

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“Director” means the public safety director.

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Define Local Authority

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“Local authority” means:
(A) a county, municipality, or other local entity authorized to enact traffic laws under the laws of this state; or
(B) a school district created under the laws of this state only when it is designating school crossing guards for schools operated by the district.

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Define Police Officer

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“Police officer” means an officer authorized to direct traffic or arrest persons who violate traffic regulations.

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Define State

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“State” has the meaning assigned by Section 311.005, Government Code, and includes a province of Canada.

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Define Metropolitan Areas

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“metropolitan area” means an area that: (1) contains at least one municipality with a population of at least 100,000; and (2) includes the adjacent municipalities and unincorporated urban districts.

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Define Restricted Districtsa

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(1) “Business district” means the territory adjacent to and including a highway if buildings used for business or industrial purposes, including a building used as a hotel, bank, office building, public building, or railroad station: (A) are located within a 600-foot segment along the highway; and (B) within that segment the buildings occupy at least 300 feet of frontage: (i) on one side of the highway; or (ii) collectively on both sides of the highway.
(2) “Residence district” means the territory, other than a business district, adjacent to and including a highway, if at least 300 feet of the highway frontage is primarily improved with: (A) residences; or (B) buildings used for business purposes and residences.
(3) “Urban district” means the territory adjacent to and including a highway, if the territory: (A) is not in a municipality; and (B) is improved with structures that are used for business, industry, or dwelling houses and located at intervals of less than 100 feet for a distance of at least one-quarter mile on either side of the highway.

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Define Personal Injury

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“Personal injury” means an injury to any part of the human body and that requires treatment.

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Define Nonresident

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“Nonresident” means a person who is not a resident of this state.

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Define Traffic

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“traffic” means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, and conveyances, including vehicles and streetcars, singly or together while using a highway for the purposes of travel.

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Define Alley

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“Alley” means a street that: (A) is not used primarily for through traffic; and (B) provides access to rear entrances of buildings or lots along a street.

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Define Crosswalk

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“Crosswalk” means: (A) the portion of a roadway, including an intersection, designated as a pedestrian crossing by surface markings, including lines; or (B) the portion of a roadway at an intersection that is 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.

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Define Freeway

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“Freeway” means a divided, controlled-access highway for through traffic.

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Define Freeway main lane

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“Freeway main lane” means a freeway lane having an uninterrupted flow of through traffic.

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Define Highway or Street

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“Highway or street” means the width between the boundary lines of a publicly maintained way any part of which is open to the public for vehicular travel.

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Define Improved shoulder

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“Improved shoulder” means a paved shoulder.

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Define Laned roadway

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“Laned roadway” means a roadway that is divided into at least two clearly marked lanes for vehicular travel.

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Define Limited-access or controlled-access highway

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“Limited-access or controlled-access highway” means a highway or roadway to which: (A) persons, including owners or occupants of abutting real property, have no right of access; and (B) access by persons to enter or exit the highway or roadway is restricted under law except at a place and in the manner determined by the authority

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Define Private Road or driveway

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“Private road or driveway” means a privately owned way or place used for vehicular travel and used only by the owner and persons who have the owner’s express or implied permission.

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Define Ramp

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“Ramp” means an interconnecting roadway of a traffic interchange, or a connecting roadway between highways at different levels or between parallel highways, that allows a vehicle to enter or exit a roadway.

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Define Roadway

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“Roadway” means the portion of a highway, other than the berm or shoulder, that is improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel. If a highway includes at least two separate roadways, the term applies to each roadway separately.

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Define Safety Zone

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“Safety zone” means the area in a roadway officially designated for exclusive pedestrian use and that is protected or so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while so designated.

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Define School Crossing Zone

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“School crossing zone” means a reduced-speed zone designated on a street by a local authority to facilitate safe crossing of the street by children going to or leaving a public or private elementary or secondary school during the time the reduced speed limit applies.

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Define Shoulder

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“Shoulder” means the portion of a highway that is:
(A) adjacent to the roadway;
(B) designed or ordinarily used for parking;
(C) distinguished from the roadway by different design, construction, or marking; and
(D) not intended for normal vehicular travel.

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Define Sidewalk

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a

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Define Through highway

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a

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Define Intersection

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(a) In this subtitle, “intersection” means the common area at the junction of two highways, other than the junction of an alley and a highway.
(b) The dimensions of an intersection include only the common area:
(1) within the connection of the lateral curb lines or, in the absence of curb lines, the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of intersecting highways that join at approximate right angles; or
(2) at the place where vehicles could collide if traveling on roadways of intersecting highways that join at any angle other than an approximate right angle.
(c) Each junction of each roadway of a highway that includes two roadways at least 30 feet apart with the roadway of an intersecting highway, including each roadway of an intersecting highway that includes two roadways at least 30 feet apart, is a separate intersection.

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Define Official Traffic Control Device

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“Official traffic-control device” means a sign, signal, marking, or device that is: (A) consistent with this subtitle; (B) placed or erected by a public body or officer having jurisdiction; and (C) used to regulate, warn, or guide traffic.

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Define Railroad Sign or Signal

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“Railroad sign or signal” means a sign, signal, or device erected by a railroad, public body, or public officer to notify traffic of railroad tracks or an approaching railroad train.

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Define Traffic-Control Signal

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“Traffic-control signal” means a manual, electric, or mechanical device that alternately directs traffic to stop and to proceed.

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Define Daytime

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“Daytime” means the period beginning one-half hour before sunrise and ending one-half hour after sunset.

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Define Explosive

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“Explosive” means a chemical compound or mechanical mixture that:
(A) is commonly intended for use or used to produce an explosion; and
(B) contains ingredients, which may include oxidizing or combustive units, in packing, proportions, or quantities that, if ignited by fire, friction, concussion, percussion, or detonator, could suddenly generate highly heated gases that could damage surrounding objects or destroy life or limb.

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Define Flammable liquid

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“Flammable liquid” means a liquid that has a flash point of not more than 70 degrees Fahrenheit as determined by a tagliabue or equivalent closed-cup test device.

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Define Gross Vehicle Weight

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“Gross vehicle weight” means the weight of a vehicle and the weight of its load.

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Define Nighttime

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“Nighttime” means the period beginning one-half hour after sunset and ending one-half hour before sunrise.

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Define Park or parking

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“Park” or “parking” means to stand an occupied or unoccupied vehicle, other than temporarily while loading or unloading merchandise or passengers.

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Define Right-of-Way

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“Right-of-way” means the right of one vehicle or pedestrian to proceed in a lawful manner in preference to another vehicle or pedestrian that is approaching from a direction, at a speed, and within a proximity that could cause a collision unless one grants precedence to the other.

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Define Stand or Standing

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“Stand” or “standing” means to halt an occupied or unoccupied vehicle, other than temporarily while receiving or discharging passengers.

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Define Stop or Stopping

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“Stop” or “stopping” means: (A) when required, to completely cease movement; and (B) when prohibited, to halt, including momentarily halting, an occupied or unoccupied vehicle, unless necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or to comply with the directions of a police officer or a traffic-control sign or signal.

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Define Dispose or Dump

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“Dispose” and “dump” mean to discharge, deposit, inject, spill, leak, or place litter on or into land or water.

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Define Illegal Dumping, Criminal Penalties

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Disposes (or allows) litter within 300 ft. of a public highway or inland or coaster water.

M/C if 5lbs or less
M/B between 5+/-500lbs
M/A between 500/-1000lbs
SJF 1000+lbs/2000 cubic feet

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Define Vehicles on Highways

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The operation of a vehicle on a highway

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Define Government Vehicles

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a vehicle owned or operated by the United States, this state, or a political subdivision of this state, except as specifically provided otherwise by this subtitle for an authorized emergency vehicle.

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Define Animals and animal-drawn vehicles

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A person riding an animal on a roadway or operating a vehicle drawn by an animal on a roadway has the rights and duties applicable to the operator of a vehicle under this subtitle, except a right or duty that by its nature cannot apply to a person riding an animal or operating a vehicle drawn by an animal.

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Define Persons and equipment engaged in work on highway surface.

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a person, team, motor vehicle, or other equipment engaged in work on a highway, but does apply to those persons and vehicles while traveling to or from that work.

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Define General rule of uniformity

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A local authority may not enact or enforce an ordinance or rule that conflicts with this subtitle unless expressly authorized by this subtitle. However, a local authority may regulate traffic in a manner that does not conflict with this subtitle.

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Define Powers of local authorities

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

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Define Rules on private property

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an owner of private property that is a private road may:

(1) regulate or prohibit use of the property by the public for vehicular travel; or
(2) require conditions different from or in addition to those specified by this subtitle.

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Define Speed restrictions on private road

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(a) The owners of a majority of the parcels of real property abutting a private road may petition the Texas Transportation Commission to extend the speed restrictions of this subtitle to the portion of the road in a subdivision or across adjacent subdivisions if:
(1) the road is not in a municipality;
(2) the total number of residents in the subdivision and subdivisions adjacent to the subdivision is at least 400; and
(3) a plat for the subdivision and each adjacent subdivision included to determine the number of residents under Subdivision (2) has been filed in the deed records of the county.
(b) After the commission receives a petition and verifies the property ownership of its signers, the commission may issue an order extending the speed restrictions to the private road if the commission finds the order is in the interests of the area residents and the public generally.
(c) If the commission rejects the petition, the commission shall hold a public hearing on the advisability of making the speed restrictions applicable. The hearing must be held in the county in which the portion of the road that is the subject of the petition is located. The commission shall publish notice of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in that county at least 10 days before the date of the hearing.
(d) At the hearing, if the commission finds that it would be in the interests of the area residents and the public generally, the commission shall issue an order extending the speed restrictions to the private road.
(e) After the commission issues an order under this section, the private road is a public highway for purposes of setting and enforcing speed restrictions under this subtitle, and the commission shall post speed limit signs on property abutting the private road with the consent of the owner of the property on which a sign is placed.

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Define Mobility devices

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(a) In this section, “motorized mobility device” means a device designed for transportation of persons with physical disabilities that:
(1) has three or more wheels;
(2) is propelled by a battery-powered motor;
(3) has not more than one forward gear; and
(4) is not capable of speeds exceeding eight miles per hour.
(b) For the purposes of this subtitle, a person operating a nonmotorized wheelchair or motorized mobility device is considered to be a pedestrian.

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Where do we get our authority to arrest somebody cited during a traffic infraction?

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Sec. 543.001. Arrest Without Warrant Authorized. Any peace officer may arrest without warrant a person found committing a violation of this subtitle. A citation is just a curtesy. We’re actually arresting them.

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