Spring Hill, TN Public Conduct: Jaywalking (2026)

The City of Spring Hill, Tennessee regulates pedestrians through the traffic-control rules in Title 15, not through a stand-alone jaywalking section; the word does not appear in the code. Section 15-108(A) is the operative rule: it is unlawful for any pedestrian or the operator of any vehicle to violate or fail to comply with any traffic-control sign, signal, marking or device placed or erected by the state or the city, unless otherwise directed by a police officer. Subsection (B) makes it unlawful for any pedestrian or vehicle operator to willfully violate or fail to comply with the reasonable directions of any police officer.

Section 15-507 supplies the signal rules. On a green signal, pedestrians facing it may proceed across the roadway within any marked or unmarked crosswalk. Pedestrians facing a steady yellow, a steady red, or a steady red with green arrow shall not enter the roadway. Under § 15-507(B), the same rules apply to an official signal erected at a place other than an intersection, except provisions that by their nature can have no application, so a signal erected away from an intersection is covered. Section 15-111 presumes that any placed sign, signal, marking or device is official and lawfully placed, and § 15-112 requires motorists and pedestrians to obey school safety patrols assigned under the authority of the Chief of Police.

Drivers carry a matching duty: § 15-507(A)(1)(a) requires vehicles to yield to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection or an adjacent crosswalk, and § 15-120(E) bars passing a vehicle stopped at a marked crosswalk or intersection to let a pedestrian cross.