618.30 HINDERING OR OPPOSING POLICE OFFICERS.
   (a)   No person shall:
      (1)   Knowingly and willfully obstruct, resist, hinder or oppose any member of the Police Department or any peace officer in the lawful discharge of his or her duties;
      (2)   Knowingly provide or furnish a peace officer or any member of the Police Department any false, forged, fictitious or misleading information, either orally or in written form, identifying a person, including himself or herself, as another person, if the person is detained for any violation of City ordinances, any violation of Michigan statutes, or while lawfully and temporarily detained for investigative purposes;
      (3)   Refuse to identify himself or herself by name and date of birth, when requested by a police officer, where the officer has encountered the person under circumstances which reasonably indicate to the officer that the person has committed, is committing or is about to commit a violation of a local, State, or Federal law.
   (b)   Limitations:
      (1)   The officer may detain the person pursuant to subsection (a)(3) hereof to ascertain the person's identity and investigate the suspicious circumstances identified by the police officer. The person may not be compelled to answer any other inquiry of any officer other than that of his or her identity.
      (2)   The length of the person's detention must be reasonably necessary to effect the purposes of subsection (a)(3) hereof, but in any case, no longer than sixty minutes. The detention must not extend beyond the place or the immediate vicinity of the place where the detention was first effected, unless the person is arrested or the immediate surroundings or situation would cause an undo safety hazard for the officer, detainee, or third parties.
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than ninety days or a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or both.
(Ord. 2-00. Passed 2-15-00; Ord. 11-08. Passed 6-3-08.)