Chapter 9.60
PUBLIC OFFICERS, CRIMES
RELATING TO

Sections:

9.60.010    Obstructing public officers.

9.60.020    Obstructing justice, criminal assistance, introducing contraband and related offenses.

9.60.030    Escape.

9.60.040    Vehicles resembling police or fire vehicles.

9.60.050    Failure to abide by order to vacate.

9.60.010 Obstructing public officers.

It is unlawful for any person to make any wilfully untrue, misleading or exaggerated statement, or to wilfully hinder, delay or obstruct any public officer in the discharge of his or her official powers or duties. (Ord. 1664 § 2, 1985).

9.60.020 Obstructing justice, criminal assistance, introducing contraband and related offenses.

The following statutes of the State of Washington are adopted by reference:

RCW

9.69.100    Withholding knowledge of felony involving violence – Penalty.

9A.76.010    Definitions.

9A.76.030    Refusing to summon aid for a peace officer.

9A.76.040    Resisting arrest.

9A.76.050    Rendering criminal assistance – Definition of terms.

9A.76.060    Relative defined.

9A.76.090    Rendering criminal assistance in the third degree.

9A.76.100    Compounding.

9A.76.160    Introducing contraband in the third degree.

9A.76.170(1)

(2)(d)    Bail jumping.

9A.84.040    False reporting.

(Ord. 1664 § 2, 1985).

9.60.030 Escape.

The following statutes of the State of Washington are adopted by reference:

RCW

9.31.090    Escape prisoner recaptured.

9A.76.130    Escape in the third degree.

(Ord. 1664 § 2, 1985).

9.60.040 Vehicles resembling police or fire vehicles.

Within the City, no person shall operate a motor vehicle which is painted and contains decals, numbers, name, or insignia so as to simulate a Police or Fire Department vehicle without prior authorization from the Police Chief, Fire Chief or their designees. (Ord. 1782 § 15, 1988).

9.60.050 Failure to abide by order to vacate.

Whenever a police officer has a reasonably well founded suspicion based on specific and articulable facts, that a person in a public park or on other public property has engaged or is engaging in criminal activity, the officer may order the individual to leave the area. An individual who fails to abide by such order shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 1782 § 16, 1988).