Subject: 9905/Code/Sec25-37/Resisting Arrest
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1989 12:20:00 -0500


                              ORDINANCE NO.   9905  
                   
                   
                   AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHATTANOOGA CITY CODE, 
                   PART II, CHAPTER 25, BY ADDING A NEW SECTION 
                   25-37, RELATIVE TO RESISTING STOP, FRISK, 
                   HALT, OR SEARCH.
                   
                   
                                                     
                   
                   
       	    	 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF 
       CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE:
       	    	 SECTION 1.  That Chattanooga City Code, Part II, Chapter 
       25, be and is hereby amended so as to add a new Section 25-37 as 
       follows:
            Sec. 25-37.	   Resisting Stop, Frisk, Halt, Search.
            
            	 It shall be unlawful for any person in the City to 
            intentionally prevent or obstruct anyone known to the 
            person to be a law enforcement officer, or anyone acting 
            in the law enforcement officer's presence and at such 
            officer's direction, from effecting a stop, frisk, halt, 
            arrest or search of any person, including the defendant 
            by using force against the law enforcement officer or 
            another.
            
       	    	 SECTION 2.  That this ordinance shall be effective two 
       (2) weeks from and after its passage as provided by law.
       
       PASSED on Third and Final
       Reading July 13, 1993.	     s/s_________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	         CHAIRPERSON
       
       	    	      	   	     APPROVED:   X   DISAPPROVED: _______
       
       	    	      	   	     DATE:  July 15, 1993.
       
       
       	    	      	   	     s/s_________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	       	    MAYOR
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