404.01 Compliance with lawful order of police officer; fleeing.
404.02 Resisting an enforcing official.
404.03 Road workers, motor vehicles and equipment excepted.
404.04 Application to persons riding, driving animals upon roadway.
404.041 Emergency, public safety and coroner’s vehicles exempt.
404.05 Impounding of vehicles; redemption.
404.06 Traffic direction in emergencies; obedience to school guards.
404.07 Application to drivers of government vehicles.
404.08 Failure to appear in Court; penalty.
404.09 Providing false information to police officer.
CROSS REFERENCES
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Disposition of unclaimed vehicles - see Ohio R.C. 737.32, 4513.61 et seq.
Burden of proof - see Ohio R.C. 2901.05
Arrest without warrant for misdemeanor - see Ohio R.C. 2935.03
Right of trial by jury - see Ohio R.C. 2945.17
Time within which hearing or trial must be held - see Ohio R.C. 2945.71
Extension of time for hearing or trial - see Ohio R.C. 2945.72
Discharge for delay in trial - see Ohio R.C. 2945.73
Power of trial court of record to suspend or revoke license for certain violations - see Ohio R.C. 4507.16
State point system suspension - see Ohio R.C. 4510.036
Uniform application of Ohio Traffic Law - see Ohio R.C. 4511.06
Use of private property for vehicular travel - see Ohio R.C. 4511.08
Authority of arresting officer when radar, electrical or mechanical timing device used - see Ohio R.C. 4511.091
Marking motor vehicles used by traffic officers - see Ohio R.C. 4549.13
Distinctive uniform required for traffic officers - see Ohio R.C. 4549.15
Disposition of property held by Police Department - see GEN. OFF. 606.24
(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.
(ORC 2921.331.)
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Refer to Ohio R.C. 2921.331 for filing charges under subsection (b) hereof since the jury or judge as trier of fact may determine the violation to be a felony.)
(c) A violation of subsection (a) hereof is a misdemeanor of the first degree. A violation of subsection (b) hereof is a misdemeanor of the first degree, unless the jury or judge as trier of fact finds any one of the following by proof beyond a reasonable doubt:
(1) In committing the offense, the offender was fleeing immediately after the commission of a felony;
(2) The operation of the motor vehicle by the offender was a proximate cause of serious physical harm to persons or property;
(3) The operation of the motor vehicle by the offender caused a substantial risk of serious physical harm to persons or property.
(ORC 2921.331.)
No person shall resist, hinder, obstruct or abuse any official while such official is attempting to arrest offenders under this Traffic Code. No person shall interfere with any person charged under such sections with the enforcement of the law relative to public streets.
The provisions of this Traffic Code do not apply to persons, teams, motor vehicles and other equipment while actually engaged in work upon the surface of a street or highway within an area designated by traffic control devices, but apply to such persons and vehicles when traveling to or from such work.
The drivers of snow plows, traffic line stripers, road sweepers, mowing machines, tar distributing vehicles and other vehicles utilized in snow and ice removal or road surface maintenance, while engaged in work upon a street or highway, provided such vehicles are equipped with flashing lights and such other markings as are required by law, and such lights are in operation when the vehicles are so engaged, shall be exempt from criminal prosecution for violations of Sections 432.01 to 432.04, inclusive, 432.06 to 432.08, inclusive, 432.29, 434.04 and from civil liability pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 450. Such exemption shall not apply to such drivers when their vehicles are not so engaged. This section shall not exempt a driver of such equipment from civil liability arising from the violations of the sections referred to herein except as otherwise set out herein in relation to Chapter 450.
(Ord. 2000-177. Passed 10-2-00.)
Every person riding, driving or leading an animal upon a roadway shall be subject to the provisions of this Traffic Code applicable to the driver of a vehicle, except those provisions of such sections which by their nature are inapplicable.
(ORC 4511.05)
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