HomeMy WebLinkAbout3166 AN ORDINANCE making it illegal to flee or
attempt to elude a police'officer and
providing a penalty therefore, declaring
an emergency and repealing Ordinance #3158.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
SECTION 1. Ordinance No. 3158 is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2. Any 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 3. 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 (2)
of this ordinance:
a. Interfering with or endangering the operation of
any police vehicle;
b. Increasing speed; or
c. Extinguishing the vehicle's lights.
SECTION 4. There exists, and is hereby declared to
exist, an emergency; and this ordinance is necessary for the
immediate .preservation of the public peace, health and safety
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of the citizens of Bremerton, and. shall be in full
force and effect immediately upon passage and publication.
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
day of October, 1974.
ATTEST:
G. C. YEAO~ SR., City Clerk ~