14:108.1Flight from an officer
Flight from an officer
Effective: 08/01/2014 - Present
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14:108.1(A)Flight from an officer
Flight from an officer - No driver of a motor vehicle or operator of a watercraft shall intentionally refuse to bring a vehicle or watercraft to a stop knowing that he has been given a visual and audible signal to stop by a police officer when the officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the driver has committed an offense
Effective: 08/01/2014 - Present
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14:108.1(B)Flight from an officer - penality
Whoever commits the crime of flight from an officer shall be fined not less than one hundred fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both
Effective: 08/01/2014 - Present
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14:108.1(C)Aggravated flight from an officer
Aggravated flight from an officer is the intentional refusal of a driver to bring a vehicle to a stop or of an operator to bring a watercraft to a stop, under circumstances wherein human life is endangered, knowing that he has been given a visual and audible signal to stop by a police officer when the officer has reasonable grounds to believe that the driver or operator has committed an offense. The signal shall be given by an emergency light and a siren on a vehicle marked as a police vehicle or marked police watercraft.
Effective: 08/01/2014 - Present
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14:108.1(E)(1)aggravated flight from an officer - penality
Whoever commits aggravated flight from an officer shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than five years and may be fined not more than two thousand dollars.
Effective: 08/01/2014 - Present
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14:108.1(F)Restitution as a part of the sentence for flight from officer
The court may, in its discretion, order restitution as a part of the sentence for Flight from an officer
Effective: 08/01/2014 - Present
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14:108.2Resisting a police officer with force or violence
Resisting a police officer with force or violence
Effective: 08/15/2008 - Present
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14:108.2 A.(1)Resisting a police officer with force or violence - using threatening force or violence before retraint and after notice of arrest given
Resisting a police officer with force or violence is using threatening force or violence by one sought to be arrested or detained before the arresting officer can restrain him and after notice is given that he is under arrest or detention, when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe the victim is a police officer who is arresting, detaining, seizing property, serving process, or is otherwise acting in the performance of his official duty:
Effective: 08/15/2008 - Present
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14:108.2 A.(2)Resisting a police officer with force or violence - using threatening force or violence after arrest but before incarceration
Resisting a police officer with force or violence is using threatening force or violence toward or any resistance or opposition using force or violence to the arresting officer after the arrested party is actually placed under arrest and before he is incarcerated in jail when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe the victim is a police officer who is arresting, detaining, seizing property, serving process, or is otherwise acting in the performance of his official duty:
Effective: 08/15/2008 - Present
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14:108.2 A.(3)Resisting a police officer with force or violence - injuring or attempting to injure a police officer engaged in the performance of his duties as a police officer
Resisting a police officer with force or violence is injuring or attempting to injure a police officer engaged in the performance of his duties as a police officer when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe the victim is a police officer who is arresting, detaining, seizing property, serving process, or is otherwise acting in the performance of his official duty:
Effective: 08/15/2008 - Present
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14:108.2 A.(4)Resisting a police officer with force or violence - using or threatening force or violence toward a police officer performing any official duty
Resisting a police officer with force or violence is using or threatening force or violence toward a police officer performing any official duty when the offender has reasonable grounds to believe the victim is a police officer who is arresting, detaining, seizing property, serving process, or is otherwise acting in the performance of his official duty:
Effective: 08/15/2008 - Present
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14:108.2 B.Resisting a police officer with force or violence - definition of 'police officer'
For purposes of this Section, 'police officer' shall include any commissioned police officer, sheriff, deputy sheriff, marshal, deputy marshal, correctional officer, constable, wildlife enforcement agent, state park warden, or probation and parole officer.
Effective: 08/15/2008 - Present
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14:108.2 C.Resisting a police officer with force or violence - penalty
Whoever commits the crime of resisting an officer with force or violence shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars or imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than one year nor more than three years, or both.
Effective: 08/15/2008 - Present
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14:110Simple escape
Simple escape
Effective: 09/03/1984 - Present
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14:110 A.(1)Simple escape - intentional departure of an imprisoned person from a place of legal confinment or custody
Simple escape shall mean the intentional departure, under circumstances wherein human life is not endangered, of a person imprisoned, committed, or detained from a place where such person is legally confined, from a designated area of a place where such person is legally confined, or from the lawful custody of any law enforcement officer or officer of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections.
Effective: 09/03/1984 - Present
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14:110 A.(2)Simple escape - failure of a criminal serving in a work release program to report or return from planned employment
Simple escape shall mean the failure of a criminal serving a sentence and participating in a work release program authorized by law to report or return from his planned employment or other activity under the program at the appointed time.
Effective: 09/03/1984 - Present
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14:110 A.(3)Simple escape - failure of person who has been granted a furlough to return to place of confinement at the appointed time
Simple escape shall mean the failure of a person who has been granted a furlough under the provisions of R.S. 15:833 or R.S. 15:908 to return to his place of confinement at the appointed time.
Effective: 06/22/1985 - Present
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14:110 B.(1)Simple escape - penalty for crime of simple escape for person who is participating in work release program as defined in (A)(2)
A person who is participating in a work release program as defined in Paragraph (A)(2) of this Section and who commits the crime of simple escape may be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than six months nor more than one year.
Effective: 08/01/2013 - Present
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14:110 B.(2)Simple escape - penalty for crime of simple escape for person who fails to return from an authorized furlough as defined in (A)(3)
A person who fails to return from an authorized furlough as defined in Paragraph (A)(3) of this Section shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than six months nor more than one year and any such sentence shall not run concurrently with any other sentence.
Effective: 09/03/1984 - Present
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14:110 B.(3)Simple escape - penalty for crime of simple escape for person who is participating in a home incarceration program
A person participating in a home incarceration program under the jurisdiction and control of the sheriffs of the respective parishes who commits the crime of simple escape shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than six months nor more than five years, and such sentence shall not run concurrently with any other sentence.
Effective: 08/01/2012 - Present
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14:110 B.(4)Simple escape - penalty for crime of simple escape as defined in Paragraph (A)(1)
A person imprisoned, committed, or detained who commits the crime of simple escape as defined in Paragraph (A)(1) of this Section shall be imprisoned with or without hard labor for not less than two years nor more than five years; provided that such sentence shall not run concurrently with any other sentence.
Effective: 08/01/2012 - Present
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14:110 C.(1)Simple escape - aggravated escape charging and definition
Aggravated escape is the intentional departure of a person from the legal custody of any officer of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections or any law enforcement officer or from any place where such person is legally confined when his departure is under circumstances wherein human life is endangered.
Effective: 09/03/1984 - Present
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14:110 C.(2)Simple escape - aggravated escape penalty
Whoever commits an aggravated escape as herein defined shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than five years nor more than ten years and any such sentence shall not run concurrently with any other sentence.
Effective: 09/03/1984 - Present
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14:110 D.Simple escape - definition of 'lawful custody'
For purposes of this Section, a person shall be deemed to be in the lawful custody of a law enforcement officer or of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections and legally confined when he is in a rehabilitation unit, a work release program, or any other program under the control of a law enforcement officer or the department.
Effective: 09/03/1984 - Present
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14:110 E.Simple escape - applicability of Section
The provisions of this Section shall be applicable to all penal, correctional, rehabilitational, and work release centers and any and all prison facilities under the control of the sheriffs of the respective parishes of the state of Louisiana. The prison facilities shall include but are not limited to parish jails, correctional centers, home incarceration, work release centers, and rehabilitation centers, hospitals, clinics, and any and all facilities where inmates are confined under the jurisdiction and control of the sheriffs of the respective parishes.
Effective: 08/01/2012 - Present
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