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2025 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 21 - Crimes And Punishments
Article 52 - Principles Of Criminal Liability
21-5229 Resisting arrest.
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KS Stat § 21-5229 (2025)
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21-5229.
Resisting arrest.
A person is not authorized to use force to resist an arrest which such person knows is being made either by a law enforcement officer or by a private person summoned and directed by a law enforcement officer to make the arrest, even if the person arrested believes that the arrest is unlawful.
History: L. 2010, ch. 136, ยง 27; July 1, 2011.
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