Chapter 9.12
OBEDIENCE TO POLICE OFFICERS AND TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES
Sections:
9.12.020 Refusal to Give Information.
9.12.030 Emergency Vehicle – Exception.
9.12.040 Emergency Vehicle – State Law.
9.12.010 Required.
No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any duly authorized flagman or any police officer invested by law with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic.
(Ord. 10-2017 (part), 2017: Ord. 1-1971 Ch. VI §1, 1971).
9.12.020 Refusal to Give Information.
No person operating or in charge of any vehicle shall refuse to give his name and address or the name and address of the owner of such vehicle to any peace officer when requested to do so. No such person shall give a false name or address when so requested. No such person shall refuse or neglect to stop when signaled to stop by any peace officer or refuse to produce his certificate of license registration or his driver’s license or refuse to permit a peace officer to take any such license or certificate for the purpose of examining it if demanded by the peace officer so to do. No such person shall refuse to permit the examination of any equipment of such vehicle or the weighing of such vehicle on the demand of any peace officer. On request, any peace officer shall produce evidence of his authorization as such.
(Ord. 10-2017 (part), 2017: Ord. 1-1971 Ch. VI §2, 1971).
9.12.030 Emergency Vehicle – Exception.
No vehicle driver or pedestrian shall disobey the instructions of any official traffic control device unless directed to do so by a traffic or police officer or unless while operating an emergency vehicle authorized as such by appropriate legislation.
(Ord. 10-2017 (part), 2017: Ord. 1-1971 Ch. VI §3, 1971).
9.12.040 Emergency Vehicle – State Law.
The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle, when responding to an emergency call or when in the pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law or when responding to but not returning from a fire alarm, may exercise those privileges and is subject to those conditions of state law as set out in RCW 46.61.035 as now or hereafter amended.
(Ord. 10-2017 (part), 2017: Ord. 1-1971 Ch. VI §4, 1971).