Title 6 — Government, Courts, and Administration of Justice
Chapter 6A — Police process and custody
| Section | Offense | Grade | Elements |
|---|---|---|---|
| § 6.01 | Obstructing a peace officer | M2 | Intentionally obstructs, delays, or interferes with a known peace officer performing a lawful duty through physical conduct, destruction, concealment, or a knowingly material falsehood. Mere criticism or refusal of consensual cooperation is excluded. |
| § 6.02 | Resisting arrest | M1 | Intentionally uses or threatens physical force to prevent a lawful arrest, detention, search, or transport of self or another. Passive noncompliance alone is M3. |
| § 6.03 | Evading on foot | M2 | Knowing a peace officer is lawfully attempting detention or arrest, intentionally flees on foot after a clear command to stop. |
| § 6.04 | Evading in a vehicle | F5 | While operating a vehicle, knowingly flees or attempts to elude a clearly identified peace officer after a signal to stop. Reckless flight is F4; serious injury is F3. |
| § 6.05 | Failure to identify after lawful arrest | M3 | After lawful arrest, knowingly refuses to provide true identifying information reasonably required for booking. |
| § 6.06 | False identifying information to police | M2 | Knowingly gives a false name, date of birth, credential, or other material identity information during lawful detention, citation, or arrest. |
| § 6.07 | Impersonating a peace officer | F4 | Falsely represents oneself as a peace officer and performs or attempts an official act, detention, search, command, or acquisition of property. Mere costume without official conduct is excluded. |
| § 6.08 | Impersonating a public servant | F5 | Falsely claims public office or authority and acts in that capacity to obtain compliance, access, information, or value. |
| § 6.09 | Escape from detention | F4 | Knowingly departs from lawful arrest, detention, transport, or custody without authority. Force, weapon use, or secure-facility escape is F3. |
| § 6.10 | Failure to return from temporary release | F5 | Knowingly fails to return as required from work release, furlough, medical release, or authorized temporary absence. |
| § 6.11 | Aiding escape | F4 | Knowingly provides tools, transport, concealment, force, or information to facilitate escape from lawful custody. Secure-facility or armed escape is F3. |
| § 6.12 | Introducing contraband into a detention facility | F4 | Knowingly brings or provides a weapon, controlled substance, communications device, escape tool, or prohibited item into a jail or prison. |
| § 6.13 | Possession of detention contraband | F5 | While confined, knowingly possesses a weapon, controlled substance, communications device, escape tool, or item designated as serious contraband. |
| § 6.14 | Unlawful rescue of an arrestee | F4 | By force, threat, or planned interference, removes or attempts to remove another from lawful custody. |
Chapter 6B — Evidence, witnesses, and proceedings
| Section | Offense | Grade | Elements |
|---|---|---|---|
| § 6.20 | Tampering with physical evidence | F4 | Knowing an investigation or proceeding is pending or likely, alters, destroys, conceals, plants, or removes evidence with intent to impair its availability or truthfulness. |
| § 6.21 | Fabricating evidence | F3 | Creates, alters, or presents false evidence with intent that it be used in an investigation, charging decision, or judicial proceeding. |
| § 6.22 | Witness tampering | F3 | Uses persuasion, deception, intimidation, benefit, or threat to cause a witness to withhold testimony, testify falsely, evade process, or alter evidence. |
| § 6.23 | Retaliation against a witness or victim | F3 | Harms or threatens a witness, victim, informant, juror, or cooperating person because of participation in a report or proceeding. |
| § 6.24 | Jury tampering | F3 | Communicates with, bribes, threatens, surveils, or improperly influences a juror concerning a pending case. |
| § 6.25 | Perjury | F4 | In an official proceeding and under oath, knowingly makes a material false statement. A retraction is a defense only if made before substantial prejudice and before exposure is imminent. |
| § 6.26 | False swearing | M1 | Under a legally authorized oath outside a judicial proceeding, knowingly makes a material false statement. |
| § 6.27 | Unsworn falsification | M2 | Knowingly submits a materially false written statement bearing notice that false statements are punishable. |
| § 6.28 | False report to law enforcement | M1 | Knowingly reports an offense, suspect, emergency, or material fact to law enforcement that the actor knows is false. Substantial emergency response is F5. |
| § 6.29 | False accusation of a felony | F5 | Knowingly causes or attempts the arrest, prosecution, or serious investigation of an innocent person through fabricated felony allegations or evidence. |
| § 6.30 | Obstruction of judicial process | M1 | Intentionally prevents or obstructs service of process, execution of a lawful warrant, court-ordered seizure, or appearance of a person. |
| § 6.31 | Failure to appear | M2 | After lawful notice and without sufficient excuse, knowingly fails to appear for a required misdemeanor proceeding. Felony proceeding is F5. |
| § 6.32 | Bail jumping | F5 | While released on a felony case, knowingly violates a material release condition by flight, concealment, or failure to surrender. |
| § 6.33 | Violation of probation | M1 or underlying judicial sanction | Knowingly violates a material condition of probation. A new felony may support revocation in addition to the new charge. |
| § 6.34 | Violation of parole | F5 or underlying judicial sanction | Knowingly violates a material condition of parole or supervised release. |
| § 6.35 | Criminal contempt | M1 | Willfully disobeys a clear court order, disrupts proceedings after warning, or commits contemptuous conduct substantially obstructing justice. |
| § 6.36 | Unauthorized practice before a court | M1 | Knowingly represents another as legal counsel or exercises a reserved legal function without required authority. Fraud or harm may support additional charges. |
Chapter 6C — Public corruption and official misconduct
| Section | Offense | Grade | Elements |
|---|---|---|---|
| § 6.40 | Bribery of a public servant | F3 | Offers, gives, solicits, or accepts a benefit as consideration for an official decision, vote, exercise of discretion, violation of duty, or testimony. |
| § 6.41 | Improper gift to a public servant | M1 | Gives or accepts a substantial undisclosed benefit because of official position when no specific quid pro quo is proven. Lawful campaign, ceremonial, and nominal gifts are excluded. |
| § 6.42 | Official misconduct | F5 | A public servant knowingly violates a law or mandatory duty, or misuses official authority, intending to obtain a benefit or harm another. |
| § 6.43 | Official oppression | F4 | A public servant, acting under color of office, knowingly subjects another to unlawful detention, search, seizure, force, harassment, denial of service, or deprivation of a right. |
| § 6.44 | Deprivation of civil rights under color of law | F3 | A public servant willfully deprives a person of a protected right through force, threat, fabricated process, or knowing abuse of legal authority, causing serious harm. |
| § 6.45 | Misuse of confidential government information | F4 | Uses or discloses nonpublic government information to obtain a benefit, aid crime, retaliate, or interfere with an investigation. |
| § 6.46 | Misuse of public funds or property | F4 | A public servant knowingly converts, misapplies, lends, or disposes of public money or property contrary to lawful authority. Grade may increase by value. |
| § 6.47 | Tampering with an official record | F4 | A public servant knowingly falsifies, destroys, conceals, or alters an official record to deceive, conceal misconduct, or affect a legal right. |
| § 6.48 | Unlawful release of a person in custody | F3 | A public servant knowingly releases, assists release, or permits escape of a person in custody without legal authority. |
| § 6.49 | Conflict-of-interest violation | M1 | A public servant knowingly participates in an official decision creating a direct undisclosed financial benefit to self, household, or controlled business. Major benefit is F5. |
| § 6.50 | Election fraud | F4 | Knowingly casts an unlawful ballot, alters or destroys a ballot, falsifies election returns, buys a vote, or obstructs lawful counting. Organized or official conduct is F3. |
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