HomeMy WebLinkAbout3158 AN ORDINANCE making it illegal to flee or
attempt to elude a police officer and
providing a penalty therefore and declaring
an emergency.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Fl.e~ing Or Attempting To Elude A Police Officer When
Signaled To Stop.
SECTION 1. A~y person, while driving a vehicle
on any roadway in the City of, Bremerton, who flees or attempts
to elude any police officer after having received any signal
from a police officer to bring the vehicle to a stop, shall be
punished upon a first conviction, by imprisonment in the city
jail for not less than thirty (30) days but not more than ninety
(90) days, no portion of which may be suspended and shall be
subject to a fine of not more than $300.00. Upon a second or
subsequent conviction any person violating this ordinance shall
be imprisoned for ninety (90) days in the city jail, no portion
of which may be suspended and subject to a fine of not more
than $300.00.
SECTION 2. After a police officer has given any
signal to any person driving a vehicle on any roadway in the
City of Bremerton to bring the vehicle to a stop the following
shall be prima facie evidence of violation of subsection (1)
of this ordinance:
a. Interfering with or endangering the operation of
any police vehicle;
b. Increasing speed; or
c. Extinquishing the vehicle's lights.
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PASSED on first reading by the City Council of the
City of Bremerton, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City
Clerk in authentication of such passage this ~/%ay of
A~t, 1974.
ATTEST:
· ~ ' City Clerk
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