A person commits the offense of refusal to identify as a witness
if, knowing he/she has witnessed any portion of an offense, or of
any other incident resulting in physical injury or substantial property
damage, he/she refuses to report or gives a false report of his/her
name and present address to a Law Enforcement Officer engaged in the
performance of his/her duties.
A person commits the offense of disturbing a judicial proceeding
if, with the purpose to intimidate a judge, attorney, juror, party
or witness and thereby influence a judicial proceeding, he/she disrupts
or disturbs a judicial proceeding by participating in an assembly
and calling aloud, shouting, or holding or displaying a placard or
sign containing written or printed matter, concerning the conduct
of the judicial proceeding, or the character of a judge, attorney,
juror, party or witness engaged in such proceeding, or calling for
or demanding any specified action or determination by such judge,
attorney, juror, party, or witness in connection with such proceeding.
A.
A person commits the offense of making a false report if he/she knowingly:
1.
Gives false information to any person for the purpose of implicating
another person in an offense; or
2.
Makes a false report to a Law Enforcement Officer that an offense
has occurred or is about to occur; or
3.
Makes a false report or causes a false report to be made to
a Law Enforcement Officer, security officer, Fire Department or other
organization, official or volunteer which deals with emergencies involving
danger to life or property that a fire or other incident calling for
an emergency response has occurred or is about to occur.
A.
A person commits the offense of resisting or interfering with arrest,
detention, or stop if he/she knows or reasonably should know that
a Law Enforcement Officer is making an arrest or attempting to lawfully
detain or stop an individual or vehicle, and for the purpose of preventing
the Officer from effecting the arrest, stop or detention, he/she:
1.
Resists the arrest, stop or detention of such person by using
or threatening the use of violence or physical force or by fleeing
from such officer; or
2.
Interferes with the arrest, stop or detention of another person
by using or threatening the use of violence, physical force or physical
interference.
C.
A person is presumed to be fleeing a vehicle stop if he/she continues
to operate a motor vehicle after he/she has seen or should have seen
clearly visible emergency lights or has heard or should have heard
an audible signal emanating from the law enforcement vehicle pursuing
him/her.
[1]
Note: Under certain circumstances this offense can be a felony
under state law.
A person commits the offense of escape from custody or attempted
escape from custody if, while being held in custody after arrest for
any offense or violation of probation or parole, he/she escapes or
attempts to escape from custody.
[1]
Note: Under certain circumstances this offense can be a felony
under state law.
A.
It
shall be the duty of the operator or driver of any vehicle or any
other conveyance regardless of means of propulsion, or the rider of
any animal traveling on the highways of this City to stop on signal
of any Law Enforcement Officer or Firefighter and to obey any other
reasonable signal or direction of such Law Enforcement Officer or
Firefighter given in directing the movement of traffic on the highways
or enforcing any offense or infraction.
B.
The
offense of willfully failing or refusing to obey such signals or directions
or willfully resisting or opposing a Law Enforcement Officer or a
Firefighter in the proper discharge of his/her duties is an ordinance
violation.