45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2002

RELATING TO CRIMINAL LAW; CREATING THE CRIME OF AGGRAVATED FLEEING AN OFFICER; PROVIDING PENALTIES; ENACTING A NEW SECTION OF THE CRIMINAL CODE.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. A new section of the Criminal Code is enacted to read:

"[NEW MATERIAL] AGGRAVATED FLEEING AN OFFICER.--

A. Aggravated fleeing an officer consists of a person driving his vehicle carelessly and heedlessly in willful or wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others, without due caution and circumspection and at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger or be likely to endanger another person or property, after being given a visual or audible signal to stop, whether by hand, voice, emergency light, flashing light, siren or other signal, by a uniformed officer in an appropriately marked police vehicle.

B. Whoever commits aggravated fleeing an officer is guilty of a fourth degree felony."

Section 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 2002.