Chapter 8.08
CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC OFFICERS
Sections:
8.08.010 Interfering with public officers.
8.08.020 Obstructing public officers.
8.08.030 Resisting public officers.
8.08.040 Refusal to make arrest or to aid officer.
8.08.050 Neglect or refusal to receive a person into custody.
8.08.060 Taking property from an officer.
8.08.080 Aiding prisoner to escape.
8.08.090 Escaped prisoner recaptured.
8.08.100 Obstruction of extinguishment of fire.
8.08.010 Interfering with public officers.
Every person who, by means of any threat, force or violence, shall attempt to deter or prevent any executive or administrative officer from performing any duty imposed upon him by law, or who shall knowingly resist by force or violence, any executive or administrative officer in the performance of his duty, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 654 § 2.1, 1968)
8.08.020 Obstructing public officers.
Every person who, after due notice, shall refuse or neglect to make or. furnish any statement, report or information lawfully required by him by any public officer, or who, in such statement, report or information shall make any wilfully untrue, misleading or exaggerated statement, or who shall wilfully hinder, delay or obstruct any public officer in the discharge of his official powers or duties, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 654 § 2.2, 1968)
8.08.030 Resisting public officers.
Every person who, in any case or under any circumstances not otherwise specially provided for, shall wilfully resist, delay or obstruct a public officer in discharging or attempting to discharge any legal duty of his office, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 654 § 2.3, 1968)
8.08.040 Refusal to make arrest or to aid officer.
Every person who, after having been lawfully commanded by any magistrate to arrest another person, shall wilfully neglect or refuse so to do; and every person who, after having been lawfully commanded to aid an officer in arresting any person, or in retaking any person who has escaped from lawful custody, or in executing any lawful process, shall wilfully neglect or refuse to aid the officer, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 654 § 2.4, 1968)
8.08.050 Neglect or refusal to receive a person into custody.
Every town officer who, in violation of any legal duty, shall wilfully neglect or refuse to receive a person into his official custody or into a prison under his charge, is, in a case where no other punishment is specially provided by law, guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 654 § 2.5, 1968)
8.08.060 Taking property from an officer.
Every person who shall take from the custody of any officer or other person any personal property in his charge under any process of law, or who shall wilfully injure or destroy such property, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 654 § 2.6, 1968)
8.08.070 Rescuing prisoners.
Every person who shall, by force or fraud, rescue from lawful custody, or from an officer or person having him in lawful custody, a prisoner held upon a charge, arrest, commitment, conviction or sentence for any crime, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 654 § 2.7, 1968)
8.08.080 Aiding prisoner to escape.
Every person, who with intent to effect or facilitate the escape of a prisoner, whether the escape shall be effected or attempted or not, shall convey or send into a prison any disguise, instrument, weapon or other thing, or aid or assist a prisoner in escaping or attempting to escape from the lawful custody of a sheriff or other officer or person, is guilty of a misdemeanor if the prisoner is held upon a charge, arrest, commitment, conviction or a sentence for any crime. (Ord. 654 § 2.8, 1968)
8.08.090 Escaped prisoner recaptured.
Every person in custody, under sentence of imprisonment for any crime, who shall escape from custody may be recaptured and imprisoned for a term equal to the unexpired portion of the original term. (Ord. 654 § 2.9, 1968)
8.08.100 Obstruction of extinguishment of fire.
Every person who, with intent to prevent or obstruct the extinguishment of any fire, shall cut or remove any bell rope, wire or other apparatus for communicating an alarm of fire, or cut, injure or destroy any engine, hose, or other fire apparatus, or otherwise prevent or obstruct the extinguishment of any fire, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. (Ord. 654 § 2.10, 1968)
8.08.110 Obstructing firemen.
Every person who at the burning of any building is guilty of any disobedience to the lawful orders of a public officer or fireman or of resistance to or interference with the lawful efforts of any fireman, or company of firemen to extinguish the same, or of disorderly con duct likely to interfere with the extinguishment thereof, or who shall forbid, prevent or dissuade others from assisting to extinguish the fire, is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 654 § 2.11, 1968)