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AN ORDINANCE TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF ATTEMPTING TO AVOID APPREHENSION BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas:
Section 1: That, a person or persons shall stop their vehicle after being signaled by a police vehicle to stop. A police vehicle shall signal the vehicle to stop by turning on the emergency lights and siren.
Section 2: A person or persons shall stop their vehicle by immediately turning their vehicle from the traveled portion of the highway to the right side of the road and place their vehicle in a parked position.
Section 3: No driver or passenger shall abandon the vehicle or attempt to abandon the vehicle once the vehicle has been signaled to stop, as set out above, by a police vehicle, until so ordered by the police officer.
Section 4: The provisions of this ordinance are hereby declared to be separable and if any section, phrase, or provision shall, for any reason, be declared to be invalid, such declaration shall not affect the validity of the remaining paragraphs, section, or provisions.
Section 5: All ordinance and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby replaced to the extent of such conflict.
Section 6: Any person or persons who violate this ordinance shall be punished by a fine of no less than fifty dollars, ($50.), no more than two-hundred dollars ($200.00), or by imprisonment for a period of not less than five (5) days, nor no more than thirty (30) days, and/or both.
Section 7: It is found and declared by the City Council that this Ordinance, being necessary to assist the Jonesboro Police Department in the efficient administration of justice and to prevent person or persons from attempting to flee police vehicles in their own vehicles and to avoid apprehension and avoid prosecution by the police by fleeing from the police vehicles in their vehicles at a high rate of speed which endangers both their vehicles at a high rate of speed which endangers both their person and other persons, and their property and other persons property, that this Ordinance is necessary, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and that this Ordinance being necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, safety, and welfare, that this Ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 3rd day of January, 1977.