{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-545.4191","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Transportation Code § 545.4191","heading":"PERSON RIDING IN TRAILER OR SEMITRAILER DRAWN BY TRUCK, ROAD TRACTOR, OR TRUCK TRACTOR.","body":"(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.\n(b) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that:\n(1) the person was operating or towing the vehicle:\n(A) in a parade or in an emergency;\n(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\n(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;\n(2) the person operating or towing the vehicle did not know that another person occupied the trailer or semitrailer; or\n(3) the person occupying the trailer or semitrailer was in a part of the trailer or semitrailer designed for human habitation.\n(c) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor.\nAdded by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 641, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.","path":["TRANSPORTATION CODE","TITLE 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC","SUBTITLE C. RULES OF THE ROAD","CHAPTER 545. OPERATION AND MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES","SUBCHAPTER I. MISCELLANEOUS RULES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.545.htm#545.4191","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:44Z","sha256":"3be13fbdb43270f8191ce8ea767061f065851134b0cb736e7963623e93e50a10","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-545.419","next":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-545.420"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}