§ 8.06.010. Obstructing or resisting officer.

(a)

Definitions.

(1)

Obstructing is defined as physically impeding or delaying a peace officer during the conduct of the officer's official duties.

(2)

Resisting is defined as the physical opposition or noncompliance to a peace officer's authority when the officer is conducting official law enforcement business.

(3)

Flight is defined as the going away from a peace officer to avoid detention or arrest.

(b)

A person shall not interfere with a peace officer or a person acting at the direction of a peace officer, in the performance of his lawful duty, by:

(1)

Obstructing or resisting;

(2)

Preventing or attempting to prevent the arrest of himself or another;

(3)

Freeing or attempting to free a person being detained or being taken into custody by a peace officer;

(4)

Flight; or

(5)

Verbally abusing a peace officer or a person acting at the direction of a peace officer with language or gestures intended or reasonably understood to incite an imminent breach of the peace.

(c)

A person shall not misrepresent or misidentify himself to a peace officer upon lawful detention or arrest for the purpose of evading process of a court or to evade the proper identification of the person by the officer if:

(1)

The misleading information is given to the peace officer while the peace officer is engaged in the performance of his duties; and

(2)

The person providing the misleading information knows or should know from the circumstances surrounding the inquiry that the person seeking the information is a peace officer.

(d)

Every person who deliberately reports to any peace officer that a felony or misdemeanor has been committed, which causes a law enforcement agency to conduct a criminal or internal investigation, knowing such report to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Code 1966, § 11.12.160; Ord. No. 3716, § 1, 8-22-88; Ord. No. 4413, § 1, 8-9-94; Ord. No. 4712, § 1, 2-11-97; Ord. No. 5955, § 1, 7-11-07)

State law reference

Resisting public officer, NRS 199.280; intimidating public officer, NRS 199.300.