HB0241 - Eluding a peace officer-penalty.

 

2001

State of Wyoming

01LSO-0417

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL NO.  HB0241

 

 

Eluding a peace officer-penalty.

 

Sponsored by:  Representative(s) Petersen, Boswell,
Huckfeldt, Law, Rose and Watt and Senator(s)
Decaria and Mockler

 

 

A BILL

 

for

 

 1  AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; modifying elements of
 2  the offense of eluding a police officer and providing
 3  penalties; and providing for an effective date.

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 5  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

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 7         Section 1.  W.S. 31-5-225 is amended to read:

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 9         31-5-225.  Fleeing or attempting to elude police
10  officers; penalty.

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12         (a)  Any driver of a motor vehicle who willfully fails
13  or refuses to bring his vehicle to a stop in compliance
14  with a signal by a police officer, or who otherwise flees
15  or attempts to elude a pursuing marked police vehicle, when

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 1  given visual or audible is guilty of eluding a police
 2  officer, provided:

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 4              (i)  The signal to bring the vehicle to a stop,
 5  is guilty of a misdemeanor. The signal given by the police
 6  officer may be by hand, voice, emergency light or and
 7  siren;.

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 9              (ii)  The officer giving the signal shall be is
10  in uniform, prominently displaying his badge of office;,
11  and his

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13              (iii)  The officer's vehicle shall be is
14  appropriately marked showing it to be an official police
15  vehicle.

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17         (b)  Every person convicted of fleeing or attempting
18  to elude Except as provided in subsection (c) of this
19  section, eluding a police officer shall be punished is a
20  misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than seven
21  hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), or by imprisonment for not
22  more than ninety (90) days six (6) months, or both.

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 1         (c)  Eluding a police officer is a felony punishable
 2  by a fine of notmore than five thousand dollars
 3  ($5,000.00), imprisonment for not less than one (1) year
 4  nor more than three (3) years, or both, if in the course of
 5  fleeing or eluding a police officer the persondrives his
 6  vehicle in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of
 7  persons or property.

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 9         (d)  In addition to any other penalty provided
10  under subsection (b) or (c) of this section the driver's
11  license of a person convicted under this section shall be
12  revoked pursuant to W.S. 31-7-127(a)(i).

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14         Section 2.  This act is effective July 1, 2001.

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16                         (END)

 

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