# Tex. Transportation Code § 545.4191: PERSON RIDING IN TRAILER OR SEMITRAILER DRAWN BY TRUCK, ROAD TRACTOR, OR TRUCK TRACTOR

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.4191

## Section

- **Citation:** Tex. Transportation Code § 545.4191
- **Heading:** PERSON RIDING IN TRAILER OR SEMITRAILER DRAWN BY TRUCK, ROAD TRACTOR, OR TRUCK TRACTOR
- **Jurisdiction:** Texas
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 545 / Section 545.4191

## Text

(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.

(b) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that:

(1) the person was operating or towing the vehicle:

(A) in a parade or in an emergency;

(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

(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;

(2) the person operating or towing the vehicle did not know that another person occupied the trailer or semitrailer; or

(3) the person occupying the trailer or semitrailer was in a part of the trailer or semitrailer designed for human habitation.

(c) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor.

## Nearby sections

- [Tex. Transportation Code § 545.001 § 545.001. DEFINITIONS.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.001.md)
- [Tex. Transportation Code § 545.002 § 545.002. OPERATOR.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.002.md)
- [Tex. Transportation Code § 545.051 § 545.051. DRIVING ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROADWAY.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.051.md)
- [Tex. Transportation Code § 545.052 § 545.052. DRIVING PAST VEHICLE MOVING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.052.md)
- [Tex. Transportation Code § 545.053 § 545.053. PASSING TO THE LEFT; RETURN; BEING PASSED.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.053.md)
- [Tex. Transportation Code § 545.054 § 545.054.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.054.md)
- [Tex. Transportation Code § 545.055 § 545.055.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.055.md)
- [Tex. Transportation Code § 545.056 § 545.056.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.056.md)
- [Tex. Transportation Code § 545.057 § 545.057. PASSING TO THE RIGHT.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.057.md)
- [Tex. Transportation Code § 545.058 § 545.058. DRIVING ON IMPROVED SHOULDER.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.058.md)
- [Tex. Transportation Code § 545.059 § 545.059. ONE-WAY ROADWAYS AND ROTARY TRAFFIC ISLANDS.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.059.md)
- [Tex. Transportation Code § 545.060 § 545.060. DRIVING ON ROADWAY LANED FOR TRAFFIC.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.060.md)
- [Tex. Transportation Code § 545.061 § 545.061. DRIVING ON MULTIPLE-LANE ROADWAY.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.061.md)
- [Tex. Transportation Code § 545.062 § 545.062. FOLLOWING DISTANCE.](https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_TX_Ctn_C545_S545.062.md)

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