HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 0452ORDINANCE N0. 452
FLEEING OR ATTEMPTING TO ELUDE A POLICE OFFICER
BE IT ORDA INED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH RICHLAND HILLS,
TEXAS
SECTION l: OFFENSE
Any driver of a motor vehicle who willfully fails or refuses
to bring his vehicle to a stop, or who otherwise flees or attempts to elude a
pursuing police vehicle, when given visual or audible signal to bring the vehicle
to a stop, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The signal given by the police officer
may be by hand, voice, emergency light or siren. The officer giving such signal
shall be in uniform, prominently displaying his badge of office and his vehicle
shall be appropriately marked showing it to be an official police vehicle.
SECTION 2: PENALTY
Every person convicted of fleeing or attempting to elude a
police officer shall be punished by a fine of not more than Two Hundred ($200.00)
Dollars .
PASSED DID ADOPTED this 12th day of
ATTEST: /,/~\ ~~!,~'~ 1
DONNA PAIRSH, CITY SECRETARY
March 1973.
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MARION L. MASS NAYOR
AP't'~?OVED AS TO FORM AND I~GALITY:
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T Ii`•-'''~RUMAIV , C I ATTORNEY
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LEGAL AFh.oA VIT
THE STATE OF TEXAS:
COUNTY OF TARRANT:
Before me, the undersigned authority on this day personally
appeared Eleanor Lewis known to me to be a credible person. who
first being sworn, deposed and upon her oath said:
Bookkeeper Mid Cit 1es Daily News
That she is the of the , a newspaper
which has been regularly and continuously published and of general
circulatiOll in the City/Town of
Hurst
, for a period of
more than one year next preceding the first publication of the
attached Le2al Notice
and that he caused said notice to be
published in said newspaper on the following date/s.
3/18/73
That the attached is a true and correct copy of said notice as pub-
lished on said date/s in said
Mid C it1es Daily News
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Sworn to and subscribed before n1e, this the 3rd day of/(pri~
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County ,
ORDINANCE NO. .
FLEEING OR A'l'TEMPTING
TO ELUDE A POUCE -OFFI-
CER
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE
. CITY CoUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NORTH RICHLAND
roLLS, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: OFFENSE
Any driver of . motor vehicle
who willfUlly fails or refuses to .
bring his vehicle to a stop, or
who otherwise flees or at-
tempts to elude a pursuing p0-
lice vehicle, when given visual
or audible signal to bring the
vehicle to a stoP, shall. be
guiltY' of a misdemeanor. The
signal given by the poüce offi-
cer may be by hand, vcice,
emergency üght or siren. The
officer giving such signal shall
be in unifonn, prominently
dIsplaying his ~e of office
and his vehicle shall be apprQoo
priately marked showing it to
be an official poUce vehicle.
SECTION 2: PENALTY
Every person convicted of
fleeingOJ' attemptin¡ to elude
a poüce officer shall be pun-
ished by a fine of not more
than Two Hundred ($200.00)
Dollars. .
PASSED AND ADOPTED this
12th day of March, 1973.
A'M'EST:
-s-DONNAPAIRSH .
CITY $ECaSTARY'
.,.MAí\JON .L.MAS$l:Y/
," . MAY-OR
APPRQY~ '..þ$ TO' FORM
AND LEt}AUTY: . .
-a-Tlti.t~RUMAN,
CITY ATTORNEY
NCDN 1.epI No. 7311
PUb.S-1a.13
Form -- 110