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(A) For the purpose of this section, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ASSAULT. Any willful and unlawful attempt or offer with force or violence to do a corporal hurt to another.
BATTERY. Any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another.
(B) It is unlawful to commit an assault and battery within the city.
(Prior Code, § 32-140)
Statutory reference:
Assault and assault and battery, see 21 O.S. § 644
Assault and battery defined, see 21 O.S. § 642
Assault and battery upon school employee, see 70 O.S. § 5-146 and 21 O.S. § 650.7
§§ 32-141 THROUGH 32-163. RESERVED.
Section
32-164. Resisting an officer
32-165. Refusing or failing to assist an officer
32-166. Assault or battery upon police or other law officer
32-167. Rescuing prisoners
32-168. Escape of prisoners
32-169. Impersonating an officer or employee
32-170. False alarms
32-171. False representation to an officer
32-172. Removal of barricades
32-173. Resisting public officials
(A) It is unlawful to resist, oppose, or assault, or in any way interfere with the Chief of Police or any person duly authorized to act as such, while the officer or person is discharging or attempting to discharge his or her official duties within the limits of the city.
(B) It is unlawful for any person to warn or signal another so as to assist such other person to flee, escape, or evade an officer seeking to make an arrest or for any person to bar or lock any door or barrier in the face of or in front of an approaching officer.
(C) Resisting an officer is the intentional opposition or resistance to, or obstruction of, an individual acting in his or her official capacity, and authorized by law to make a lawful arrest or seizure of property, or to serve any lawful process or court order, when the offender knows or has reason to know that the person arresting, seizing property, or serving process is acting in his or her official capacity.
(D) The term
OBSTRUCTION OF shall, in addition to its common meaning, include:
(1) Flight by one sought to be arrested before the arresting officer can restrain him or her and after notice is given that he or she is under arrest;
(2) Any violence toward or any resistance or opposition to the arresting officer after the arrested party is actually placed under arrest and before he or she is under arrest; and
(3) Refusal by the arrested party to give his or her name and make his or her identity known to the arresting officer.
(Prior Code, § 32-164)
Statutory reference:
Resisting or assault and battery upon police officers, see 21 O.S. § 649
(A) An officer of the city making or about to make an arrest, or executing or about to execute a warrant or other process, in accordance with the ordinances of the city or with state or federal law, or suppressing or about to suppress a riot, affray, or unlawful assembly, may call upon persons to assist him or her in making such arrest, executing such process, or suppressing such riot, affray, or unlawful assembly.
(B) It is unlawful for any person lawfully called upon thus to assist an officer of the city to refuse or fail to do so. Every person who, after having been lawfully commanded to aid any officer in arresting any person or in retaking any person who has escaped from legal custody, or in executing any legal process, willfully neglects or refuses to aid such officer, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Prior Code, § 32-165)
Statutory reference:
Aid to police officer, see 21 O.S. § 537
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