Sec. 544.010. STOP SIGNS AND YIELD SIGNS. (a) Unless directed to proceed by a police officer or traffic-control signal, the operator of a vehicle or streetcar approaching an intersection with a stop sign shall stop as provided by Subsection (c).
(b) If safety requires, the operator of a vehicle approaching a yield sign shall stop as provided by Subsection (c).
(c) An operator required to stop by this section shall stop before entering the crosswalk on the near side of the intersection. In the absence of a crosswalk, the operator shall stop at a clearly marked stop line. In the absence of a stop line, the operator shall stop at the place nearest the intersecting roadway where the operator has a view of approaching traffic on the intersecting roadway.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 7 - Vehicles and Traffic
Subtitle C - Rules of the Road
Chapter 544 - Traffic Signs, Signals, and Markings
Section 544.001. Adoption of Sign Manual for State Highways
Section 544.002. Placing and Maintaining Traffic-Control Device
Section 544.003. Authority to Designate Through Highway and Stop and Yield Intersections
Section 544.004. Compliance With Traffic-Control Device
Section 544.005. Interference With Traffic-Control Device or Railroad Sign or Signal
Section 544.0055. Traffic-Control Signal Preemption Device; Offense
Section 544.006. Display of Unauthorized Signs, Signals, or Markings
Section 544.007. Traffic-Control Signals in General
Section 544.0075. Certain Traffic-Actuated Electric Traffic-Control Signals
Section 544.008. Flashing Signals
Section 544.009. Lane-Direction-Control Signals
Section 544.010. Stop Signs and Yield Signs