FIRST REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 792
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE WRIGHT.
Read 1st time February 14, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 43.170, RSMo 2000, relating to failing to stop on signal of the patrol, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the same subject, with penalty provisions.
Section A. Section 43.170, RSMo 2000, is repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 43.170 and 304.800, to read as follows:
43.170. It shall be the duty of the operator or driver of any vehicle or the rider of any animal traveling on the highways of this state to stop on signal of any member of the patrol and to obey any other reasonable signal or direction of such member of the patrol given in directing the movement of traffic on the highways. Any person who willfully fails or refuses to obey such signals or directions or who willfully resists or opposes a member of the patrol in the proper discharge of [his] such member's duties shall be guilty of a [misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished as provided by law for such offenses] class D felony.
304.800. It shall be the duty of the operator or driver of any vehicle or the rider of any animal traveling on the
highways, streets or roads of this state to stop on signal of any law enforcement officer and to obey any other
reasonable signal or direction of such officer given in directing the movement of traffic on the highways. Any
person who willfully fails or refuses to obey such signals or directions or who willfully resists or opposes a law
enforcement officer in the proper discharge of such officer's duties shall be guilty of a class D
felony.
Missouri House of
Representatives