San Angelo, TX Public Conduct: Aggressive Panhandling (2026)

013 governs pedestrian rights and duties on San Angelo streets, and subsection (h) addresses solicitation specifically. Paragraph (h)(1) makes it unlawful for any person to enter a public street to solicit a ride, employment, business, or donations or contributions from the occupant of a vehicle being driven on that street, covering the classic median or intersection approach to stopped traffic. Paragraph (h)(2) separately bars standing on or near a street or highway to solicit watching or guarding a parked or soon-to-be-parked vehicle, the unauthorized car-watcher pitch.

Both paragraphs sit alongside paragraph (h)(3), which bans lying, sitting, loitering, standing, or soliciting for any purpose in any median citywide or in specified intersections, underpasses, and bridges along US Highway 277, US Highway 67, and Loop 306, showing the council treated street-level solicitation and median presence as related but separate offenses when it amended the section by Ordinance No. 2020-113 on December 15, 2020. A. 007, which similarly restricts solicitation of business by a pedestrian from the roadway, so the local rule tracks state authority over pedestrian conduct rather than creating a novel city-only offense.

Enforcement is by the San Angelo Police Department, which can cite a violation of the traffic chapter without proving the person actually obstructed traffic, since the offense is complete once the person enters the street or stands roadside for the prohibited solicitation purpose.