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2012 Revised Code of Washington
Title 79A - PUBLIC RECREATIONAL LANDS
79A.60 Regulation of recreational vessels.
79A.60.090 Eluding a law enforcement vessel.


WA Rev Code § 79A.60.090 (2012) What's This?

RCW 79A.60.090 Eluding a law enforcement vessel.

Any operator of a vessel who willfully fails or refuses to immediately bring the vessel to a stop and who operates the vessel in a manner indicating a wanton or willful disregard for the lives or property of others while attempting to elude a pursuing law enforcement vessel, after being given a visual or audible signal to bring the vessel to a stop, shall be guilty of a class C felony punishable under chapter 9A.20 RCW. The signal given by the law enforcement officer may be by hand, voice, emergency light, or siren. The officer giving such a signal shall be in uniform and his or her vessel shall be appropriately marked showing it to be an official law enforcement vessel.

[1990 c 235 ยง 2. Formerly RCW 88.12.045, 88.12.120, and 88.08.080.]


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