(A) No person shall negligently or wilfully interfere with, hinder or obstruct any officer or employee of the town who is engaged in, en route to or returning from, the performance of official duty, whether interference, hindrance or obstruction be by threat, assault or otherwise.
(Prior Code, § 12-36)
(B) No person shall falsely represent him or herself to be an officer or employee of the town, or without proper authority wear or display any uniform, insignia or credential which identifies any town officer or employee; nor shall any person without proper authority assume to act as an officer or employee of the town, 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.
(Prior Code, § 12-37)
(C) Town 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 town officer or employee in violation of this subsection is hereby invited to bring the matter to the attention of the officer’s or employee’s department head or to the Mayor, without prejudice to any other recourse to which the aggrieved person may be entitled.
(Prior Code, § 12-38) Penalty, see § 10.99
Statutory reference:
Resisting public officers, see G.S. § 14-223