Title 11 - Peace, Morals and Safety

11.20.060 Obstructing Legal Process or Official Duty.

Obstructing legal process or official duty is knowingly and willfully obstructing, resisting or opposing any person authorized by federal law, state law or city ordinance to serve process in the service or execution or in the attempt to serve or execute any writ, warrant, process or order of a court, administrative agency, body, person or office having authority to so act in compliance with federal, state or city laws, ordinances or regulations or in the discharge of any official duty provided that the mere utterance of oral communication, verbal expression or other forms of vocalizing the spoken word shall not be unlawful unless said utterance rises to the level of "fighting words." Fighting words are those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.

Every person convicted of violating this section shall be imprisoned for not more than one year or fined not to exceed $2,500, or both such fine and imprisonment.

(History: Ord. POC-1435 §1, 87; POC- 1381 §4, 86; POC-625 §43, 72; POC-598 §53 & 40, 70)(State Law: KSA 21-5904)

Effective on: 1/1/1901