No operator of a motor vehicle who has received a visual or audible signal, a red light or a siren from a police officer driving a motor vehicle showing the same to be an official police, sheriff or highway patrol car directing the operator to bring his or her vehicle to a stop shall willfully increase his or her speed or extinguish his or her lights to elude or attempt to elude such police officer, nor attempt in any other manner to elude the police officer.
(Prior Code, § 10-607) Penalty, see § 130.99