New Braunfels, TX Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

Chapter 126's pedestrian article splits crossing rights by location. Section 126-297 gives pedestrians the right-of-way inside a marked or unmarked crosswalk when signals aren't controlling the intersection. ' The section carves out an exception where sections 126-65 and 126-67 already bar pedestrians from crossing at certain designated places, so the yield duty doesn't apply somewhere crossing is banned outright. Section 126-299 separately directs pedestrians to use the right half of any crosswalk when possible, and section 126-300 layers on a business-district-specific rule: between adjacent signalized intersections, pedestrians may not cross except in a marked crosswalk, and no pedestrian may cross a roadway other than in a crosswalk anywhere inside a business district, a term chapter 126's definitions section (§ 126-1) defines as the built-up commercial territory along a highway with at least 300 feet of qualifying frontage within any 600-foot stretch.

Section 126-301 rounds out the article by requiring any midblock crossing outside a crosswalk to run at right angles to the curb by the shortest route. None of these sections state a stand-alone fine, so enforcement falls to the Code's general penalty provision.