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2011 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 13 Criminal Code
13-2508 Resisting arrest; classification


AZ Rev Stat § 13-2508 (1996 through 1st Reg Sess 50th Legis) What's This?

13-2508. Resisting arrest; classification

A. A person commits resisting arrest by intentionally preventing or attempting to prevent a person reasonably known to him to be a peace officer, acting under color of such peace officer's official authority, from effecting an arrest by:

1. Using or threatening to use physical force against the peace officer or another; or

2. Using any other means creating a substantial risk of causing physical injury to the peace officer or another.

B. Resisting arrest is a class 6 felony.

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