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(A) Authority to request aid. 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 person or persons to assist him or her in making such arrest, executing such process or suppressing such riot, affray or unlawful assembly.
(B) Failure to assist. It is unlawful for any person lawfully called upon thus to assist an officer of the city to refuse or fail to do so.
(Prior Code, § 5-2F-2) Penalty, see § 130.99
It is unlawful for any person, without justifiable or excusable cause, to knowingly commit any assault, battery or assault and battery upon the person of a police officer or other officer of the law while in the performance of his or her duties.
(Prior Code, § 5-2F-3) Penalty, see § 130.99
(A) Rescuing prisoners.
(1) It is unlawful for any person, by use of force or in any other illegal manner, to set at liberty, rescue or attempt to set at liberty, any prisoner from any officer or employee of the city having legal custody of such prisoner or from the city jail or other place of confinement by the city.
(2) It is unlawful to assist such prisoner in any manner to escape from such prison or custody either before or after conviction, including escape from a vehicle of confinement.
(B) Escape of prisoners. It is unlawful for any person confined in the city jail or other place of confinement by the city, or working upon the streets or other public places of the city in pursuance of any judgment, or otherwise held in legal custody by authority of the city, to break or attempt to break from any such jail, prison or custody, or to escape or attempt to escape therefrom.
(C) Assisting escape of prisoners.
(1) It is unlawful for any person, by use of force or in any other illegal manner, to set at liberty, rescue or attempt to set at liberty or rescue, any prisoner from any officer or employee of the city having legal custody of such prisoner or from the city jail or other place of confinement by the city.
(2) It is unlawful for any person to convey into the city jail or other city prison any instrument or other thing useful to facilitate the escape of any prisoner therein, or to give any such instrument or thing to a prisoner in custody or in prison, whether such escape is effected or attempted or not.
(D) Unlawful communication with prisoners. It is unlawful for any person to loiter about the city jail or any other city prison with intent to communicate unlawfully with any prisoner confined therein, or to communicate or attempt to communicate unlawfully with any prisoner confined in such jail or prison or held in legal custody.
(Prior Code, § 5-2F-4) Penalty, see § 130.99
It is unlawful for any person to impersonate any officer or employee of the city, falsely represent himself or herself to be an officer or employee of the city, or exercise or attempt to exercise any of the duties, functions or powers of an officer or employee of the city without being duly authorized to do so.
(Prior Code, § 5-2F-5) Penalty, see § 130.99
(A) False alarms. It is unlawful for any person to turn in a false alarm of any nature or in any manner to deceive or attempt to deceive the Fire Department, Police Department, emergency medical services, or any officer or employee thereof with reference to any fire alarm or reported fire, accident or other emergency or knowingly to cause the Fire Department, Police Department, emergency medical services, or its officers or employees to make a useless or unnecessary run to any part of the city or outside the city.
(B) False representation to officer. It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, or any agent or employee thereof, knowingly to make any material misrepresentation to any officer, employee or agency of the city government in any official application to, or official dealing or negotiation with, such officer or agency; or to commit perjury before any tribunal or officer of the city.
(Prior Code, § 5-2F-6) Penalty, see § 130.99
It is unlawful for any person except by proper authority to remove any barricade or obstruction placed by authority of the city to keep traffic off any pavement, street, curb, sidewalk or other area.
(Prior Code, § 5-2F-7) Penalty, see § 130.99
It is unlawful for any person knowingly or willfully to:
(A) Resist, oppose or obstruct the Chief of Police, any other police officer, the municipal judge, or any other officer or employee of the city in the discharge of his or her official duties;
(B) Threaten or otherwise intimidate or attempt to intimidate any such officer or employee from the discharge of his or her official duties; or
(C) Assault or beat, or revile, abuse, be disrespectful to, use abusive or indecent language toward or about, any such officer or employee while such officer or employee is in the discharge of his or her official duties.
(Prior Code, § 5-2F-8) Penalty, see § 130.99
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