[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
A. A person
who knowingly resists or obstructs the performance by one known to
the person to be a peace officer, firefighter, or correctional institution
employee of any authorized act within his official capacity shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
B. As used
in this section, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION EMPLOYEE
Any person employed to supervise and control inmates incarcerated
in a penitentiary, state farm, reformatory, prison, jail, house of
correction, police detention area, halfway house, or other institution
or place for the incarceration or custody of persons under sentence
for offenses or awaiting trial or sentence for offenses, under arrest
for an offense, a violation of probation, a violation of parole, a
violation of aftercare release, a violation of mandatory supervised
release, or awaiting a bail-setting hearing or preliminary hearing,
or who are sexually dangerous persons or who are sexually violent
persons.
FIREFIGHTER
Any individual, either as an employee or volunteer, of a
regularly constituted fire department of a municipality or fire protection
district who performs fire-fighting duties, including, but not limited
to, the fire chief, assistant fire chief, captain, engineer, driver,
ladder person, hose person, pipe person, and any other member of a
regularly constituted fire department. "Firefighter" also means a
person employed by the Office of the State Fire Marshal to conduct
arson investigations.
Whoever knowingly resists or obstructs the authorized service
or execution of any civil or criminal process or order of any court
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
Whoever upon command refuses or knowingly fails reasonably to
aid a person known by him to be a peace officer in apprehending a
person whom the officer is authorized to apprehend or preventing the
commission by another of any offense shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.