Kyle, TX Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

Kyle's pedestrian rules sit in Chapter 38, Article III, and function as the city's closest analog to a jaywalking law, focused on where and how a pedestrian may walk rather than banning mid-block street crossings outright. Section 38-46 requires a pedestrian to use an adjacent sidewalk rather than walk along the roadway whenever that sidewalk is accessible, meaning not obstructed, occupied, or blocked in a way that stops the free flow of foot traffic. Section 38-47 covers the alternative: when no accessible sidewalk exists, a pedestrian walking along a roadway must, if possible, walk on the roadway's left side or its shoulder, facing oncoming traffic, and may not impede, obstruct, or disrupt the normal movement of vehicles.

When walking on the asphalt itself, other than to cross the road, pedestrians must walk single file and are barred from walking side by side at any time. Section 38-47 also builds in a prosecutorial shortcut: proof that a defendant was walking side by side on the asphalt surface of a road while one or more moving vehicles were present is treated as prima facie evidence that traffic was impeded, obstructed, or disrupted. Article III does not carry its own dollar penalty, and Section 38-49 clarifies that the article's pedestrian-traffic rules in Sections 38-46 and 38-47 do not reach temporary, reasonable, non-pedestrian use of a roadway or alley that does not interfere with traffic.

A violation of Sections 38-46 or 38-47 therefore falls back on the Code's general penalty clause, Section 1-14, which caps most unspecified Code violations at a $500 fine and treats each day of a continuing violation as a separate offense.