The purpose of this chapter is to provide for
the health, safety and welfare of the people of the City by consolidating,
codifying and adding to the ordinances relating to crimes, defining
crimes and prescribing penalties therefor.
No person shall drive a vehicle over a fire
hose, knowingly and willfully hinder, obstruct or interfere with any
firefighter in the performance of his or her duties or, while in the
vicinity of any fire, willfully disobey and/or disregard any order,
rule or regulation of the officer commanding the Fire Department at
such fire.
No person shall knowingly and willfully obstruct,
resist or oppose any police officer of the City in the discharge of
his or her official duty. No person shall knowingly and willfully
prevent or attempt to prevent any police officer or other person,
duly authorized, from serving or attempting to serve or execute any
process, rule or order made or issued by lawful authority. No person
shall resist any officer in the execution of any ordinance, bylaw,
rule, order or resolution made, issued or passed by Council; assault,
beat or wound any police officer or other person, duly authorized,
while such officer or other person is serving or attempting to serve
or execute any such process, rule or order, or for having served or
attempted to serve or execute the same; or obstruct, resist, oppose,
assault, beat or wound any such officer or other person authorized
by law to maintain and preserve the peace in his or her lawful acts,
attempts and efforts to maintain, preserve and keep the peace.
No person shall, in any manner, jeopardize or
interfere with any municipal employee or officer engaged in the performance
of a municipal duty and not otherwise provided for in §§
163-3
and
163-4.
A violation of any provision of this chapter
shall be a municipal civil infraction, punishable as provided in Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
II.