(a) No person shall fail to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer invested with authority to direct, control, or regulate traffic.
(b) No person shall operate a motor vehicle so as willfully to elude or flee a police officer after receiving a visible or audible signal from a police officer to bring his motor vehicle to a stop.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer. A violation of division (a) of this section is a misdemeanor of the first degree. A violation of division (b) of this section is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(d) As used in this section, “police officer” has the same meaning as in Section 4511.01 of the Ohio Revised Code.