{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-552.007","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Transportation Code § 552.007","heading":"SOLICITATION BY PEDESTRIANS.","body":"(a) A person may not stand in a roadway to solicit a ride, contribution, employment, or business from an occupant of a vehicle, except that a person may stand in a roadway to solicit a charitable contribution if authorized to do so by the local authority having jurisdiction over the roadway.\n(b) A person may not stand on or near a highway to solicit the watching or guarding of a vehicle parked or to be parked on the highway.\n(c) In this section, \"charitable contribution\" means a contribution to an organization defined as charitable by the standards of the United States Internal Revenue Service.\nActs 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.","path":["TRANSPORTATION CODE","TITLE 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC","SUBTITLE C. RULES OF THE ROAD","CHAPTER 552. PEDESTRIANS AND OTHER SIDEWALK USERS"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.552.htm#552.007","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:44Z","sha256":"37d549986594c0cba8cd954632ecee0b7dd6eafbcd9bcf287bb857e8efe5de5e","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-552.006","next":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-552.0071"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}