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2020 Utah Code
Title 41 - Motor Vehicles
Chapter 6a - Traffic Code
Part 2 - Applicability and Obedience to Traffic Laws
Section 210 - Failure to respond to officer's signal to stop -- Fleeing -- Causing property damage or bodily injury -- Suspension of driver's license -- Forfeiture of vehicle -- Penalties.
Universal Citation: UT Code § 41-6a-210 (2020)
Effective 5/8/2018
41-6a-210. Failure to respond to officer's signal to stop -- Fleeing -- Causing property damage or bodily injury -- Suspension of driver's license -- Forfeiture of vehicle -- Penalties.
Amended by Chapter 133, 2018 General Session
41-6a-210. Failure to respond to officer's signal to stop -- Fleeing -- Causing property damage or bodily injury -- Suspension of driver's license -- Forfeiture of vehicle -- Penalties.
- (1)
- (a) An operator who receives a visual or audible signal from a law enforcement officer to bring the vehicle to a stop may not:
- (i) operate the vehicle in willful or wanton disregard of the signal so as to interfere with or endanger the operation of any vehicle or person; or
- (ii) attempt to flee or elude a law enforcement officer by vehicle or other means.
- (b)
- (i) A person who violates Subsection (1)(a) is guilty of a felony of the third degree.
- (ii) The court shall, as part of any sentence under this Subsection (1), impose a fine of not less than $1,000.
- (a) An operator who receives a visual or audible signal from a law enforcement officer to bring the vehicle to a stop may not:
- (2)
- (a) An operator who violates Subsection (1) and while so doing causes death or serious bodily injury to another person, under circumstances not amounting to murder or aggravated murder, is guilty of a felony of the second degree.
- (b) The court shall, as part of any sentence under this Subsection (2), impose a fine of not less than $5,000.
- (3)
- (a) In addition to the penalty provided under this section or any other section, a person who violates Subsection (1)(a) or (2)(a) shall have the person's driver license revoked under Subsection 53-3-220(1)(a)(ix) for a period of one year.
- (b)
- (i) The court shall forward the report of the conviction to the division.
- (ii) If the person is the holder of a driver license from another jurisdiction, the division shall notify the appropriate officials in the licensing state.
Amended by Chapter 133, 2018 General Session
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