Lubbock, TX Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

City Code § 20.07.001, Crossing at other than crosswalk, is the governing pedestrian-crossing rule in article 20.07, Pedestrians. Subsection (a) requires a pedestrian crossing at any point other than within a marked crosswalk, or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, to yield the right-of-way to all vehicles on the roadway. Subsection (b) applies the same yield duty where a pedestrian tunnel or overhead crossing has been built: a pedestrian who crosses at street level anyway still must yield to traffic. Subsection (c) is the strict mid-block rule: between adjacent intersections where traffic-control signals are operating, pedestrians may not cross anywhere except in a marked or unmarked crosswalk, full stop, with no yield-and-go option.

Subsection (d) bars pedestrians from crossing or using the vehicular traffic lanes of any freeway, with narrow carve-outs for government employees and contractors performing official duties, emergencies, and people lawfully participating in a parade, demonstration or recreational street use permitted under article 20.10. The section traces to Ordinance 1367 adopted in 1953 and was last amended by Ordinance 9874 in 1996, then renumbered by Ordinance 2012-O0032 in 2012. Because article 20.07 carries no separate penalty clause, a violation falls under the general traffic-obedience provision, § 20.01.003, which makes it unlawful and a misdemeanor to fail to perform any act required by chapter 20, backstopped by the citywide general penalty in § 1.01.004.