§ 131.20 INTERFERING WITH AND THE LIKE.

   No person shall carelessly or willfully interfere with, resist, hinder or obstruct any officer or employee of the city who is engaged in, en route to or returning from, the performance of official duty, whether the interference, resistance, hindrance or obstruction be by threat, assault or otherwise.

(1973 Code, § 18-4) Penalty, see § 10.99

Statutory reference:

   Crimes affecting public officers and employees, see M.S. § 609.415 to 609.475 and 609.515

   Obstructing legal process or arrest, see M.S. § 609.50

§ 131.21 IMPERSONATION OF.

   No person shall falsely represent himself or herself to be an officer or employee of the city, or without proper authority wear or display any uniform, insignia or credential which identifies any city officer or employee; nor shall any person without proper authority assume to act as an officer or employee of the city, whether to gain access to premises, obtain information, perpetrate a fraud or for any other purpose; provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a private citizen from making a lawful citizen’s arrest for felony or breach of the peace committed in his or her presence.

(1973 Code, § 18-5) Penalty, see § 10.99

Statutory reference:

   False personation of military or police officers or public officials, see M.S. § 609.475

§ 131.22 COURTESY AND THE LIKE DUE TO AND FROM; PROHIBITED ACTS.

   (A)   City officers and employees shall be courteous in their official transactions with the public, and they shall conduct themselves in the performance of their official duties so as to not knowingly deprive any person, at the time and under the circumstances then and there existing, of any lawful right or benefit to which the person may be entitled. Any person who feels aggrieved by the conduct of any city officer or employee in violation of this division is hereby invited to bring the matter to the attention of the officers or employee’s department head or to the City Administrator, without prejudice to any other recourse to which the aggrieved person may be entitled.

   (B)   Members of the public, in turn, should be courteous in their transactions with city officers and employees, and it shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly taunt, deride, jeer or otherwise debase or insult, whether by act, word or gesture, any city officer or employee at any time or place while the city officer or employee is lawfully engaged in the performance of official duty.

(1973 Code, § 18-6)