Picketing regulations.
El Paso City Code § 13.34.040
in effect13.34.040 - Picketing regulations.
A. Picketing may be conducted on public sidewalks, any city park, or other city-owned areas normally used or reserved for pedestrian movement, including easements and rights-of-way, and shall not be conducted on the portion of a public roadway.
B. Picketing shall not disrupt, block, obstruct or interfere with pedestrian or vehicular traffic or the free passage of pedestrian or vehicular traffic into any driveway, pedestrian entrance, or other access to buildings, which abut the public sidewalks.
C. If more than one group of picketers desire to picket at the same time at or near the same location, law enforcement officers may, without regard to the purpose or content of the message, assign each group a place to picket in order to preserve the public peace. Members of a group shall not enter an area assigned to another group. Priority of location shall be based upon which group of picketers arrived first.
D. Spectators of pickets shall not physically interfere with individuals engaged in picketing. Picketers and spectators of pickets shall not speak fighting words or threats that would tend to provoke a reasonable person to a breach of the peace.
E. Picketers and picketing shall be subject to all applicable local, state and federal laws including, but not limited to the city's noise ordinance, amplification ordinance, and when crossing or using any roadway, picketers shall comply with all laws applicable to pedestrians.
F. Nothing in this chapter prohibits a law enforcement officer or firefighter from issuing a command to move or disperse in accordance with Texas Penal Code Section 42.04 in the event of a riot, unreasonable noise or obstructing passageway.
(Ord. 16316 § 5, 2006)
Source: City of El Paso, City Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/tx/el_paso/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TIT13STSIPUPL_CH13.34PI_13.34.040PIREFetched: 10/28/2026