(A) The City Council makes the following findings:
(1) Pursuant to Tex. Transportation Code Ch. 311, the city has exclusive control over and under the public highways, streets and alleys of the city;
(2) The city holds the rights-of-way adjoining the public highways, streets and alleys of the city in trust for the benefit of citizens of the city;
(3) The use of the public highways, streets and alleys and their adjoining rights-of-way for soliciting and vending is detrimental to the character and quality of residential, recreational, commercial, industrial and business areas, property and the quality of life of citizens of the city;
(4) While roadway vendors, peddlers, solicitors and merchants engage in legitimate and honorable commercial activities which enhance the convenience of the consuming public, soliciting and vending to persons in motor vehicles while standing on the public highways, alleys, streets and adjoining rights-of-way has the potential to create a hazard to the users and the bystanders of the public highways and streets;
(5) The nature and characteristics of such commercial activities require the reasonable regulation of the time, manner and place of such activities;
(6) The public highways, streets and alleys and adjoining rights-of-way are primarily used to promote the smooth flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic; and
(7) The reasonable regulations enacted hereby do not prohibit or inhibit free expression of religious, political or other ideas and beliefs, but regulate commercial activities and conduct for the below expressed public purposes.
(B) The purposes of the regulation set forth in this subchapter are:
(1) To reasonably regulate vendors, peddlers, merchants and solicitors in and upon public highways, streets and alleys and adjoining rights-of-way;
(2) To protect the public health, safety and welfare and promote the use and enjoyment of public highways, streets and alleys and adjoining rights-of-way in an attractive environment;
(3) To promote smooth and safe flow of vehicular and pedestrian traffic and avoid congestion and hazards;
(4) To enhance and protect the quality and attractiveness of the environment;
(5) To protect the use and enjoyment of the people in their homes;
(6) To protect the public from fraudulent, illegal, unsafe or unhealthful commercial activities, products and services;
(7) To preserve the character and quality of residential, recreational, commercial, industrial and business areas and property; and
(8) To promote and enhance the quality of commercial activities within the city.
(2012 Code, § 19-200)