2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 575.145. — Signal or direction of sheriff or deputy sheriff, duty to stop, motor vehicle operators and riders of animals--violation, penalty.

575.145. It shall be the duty of the operator or driver of any vehicle or the rider of any animal traveling on the highways of this state to stop on signal of any sheriff or deputy sheriff and to obey any other reasonable signal or direction of such sheriff or deputy sheriff given in directing the movement of traffic on the highways. Any person who willfully fails or refuses to obey such signals or directions or who willfully resists or opposes a sheriff or deputy sheriff in the proper discharge of his or her duties shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished as provided by law for such offenses.

(L. 2002 H.B. 1270 and H.B. 2032)

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