2006 Louisiana Laws - RS 14:108.1 — Flight from an officer; aggravated flight from an officer

§108.1.  Flight from an officer; aggravated flight from an officer

A.  No driver of a motor vehicle shall intentionally refuse to bring a vehicle 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.  The signal shall be given by an emergency light and a siren on a vehicle marked as a police vehicle.

B.  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.

C.  Aggravated flight from an officer is the intentional refusal of a driver to bring a vehicle 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 has committed an offense. The signal shall be given by an emergency light and a siren on a vehicle marked as a police vehicle.

D.  Circumstances wherein human life is endangered shall be any situation where the operator of the fleeing vehicle commits at least two of the following acts:

(1)  Leaves the roadway or forces another vehicle to leave the roadway.

(2)  Collides with another vehicle.

(3)  Exceeds the posted speed limit by at least twenty-five miles per hour.

(4)  Travels against the flow of traffic.

E.  Whoever commits aggravated flight from an officer shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not more than two years.

Added by Acts 1981, No. 307, §1; Acts 1997, No. 865, §1.