{"data":{"id":"us-ak/as-28.35.182","jurisdiction":"us-ak","citation":"AS 28.35.182","heading":"Failure to stop at direction of peace officer.","body":"(a) A person commits the offense of failure to stop at the direction of a peace officer in the first degree if the person violates (b) of this section, and, during the commission of that offense,\n(1) the person violates AS 28.35.400;\n(2) the person is committing vehicle theft in the first or second degree; or\n(3) as a result of the person's operation or driving, an accident occurs or a person suffers serious physical injury; in this paragraph, “serious physical injury” has the meaning given in AS 11.81.900.\n(b) A person commits the offense of failure to stop at the direction of a peace officer in the second degree if the person, while driving or operating a vehicle or motor vehicle or while operating an aircraft or watercraft, knowingly fails to stop as soon as practical and in a reasonably safe manner under the circumstances when requested or signaled to do so by a peace officer.\n(c) In a prosecution under this section, it is an affirmative defense, if the peace officer, when requesting or signaling the defendant to stop,\n(1) was operating a vehicle, motor vehicle, aircraft, or watercraft, and the vehicle, motor vehicle, aircraft, or watercraft\n(A) did not meet lighting and audible signaling requirements of law for law enforcement vehicles; and\n(B) was not marked appropriately so that a reasonable person would recognize it as a law enforcement vehicle; or\n(2) was not operating a vehicle, motor vehicle, aircraft, or watercraft, and the peace officer was not wearing the uniform of office or displaying a badge or other symbol of authority so as to be reasonably identifiable as a peace officer.\n(d) In this section,\n(1) “knowingly” has the meaning given in AS 11.81.900;\n(2) “signal” means a hand motion, audible mechanical or electronic noise device, visual light device, or combination of them, used in a manner that a reasonable person would understand to mean that the peace officer intends that the person stop.\n(e) Failure to stop at the direction of a peace officer in the first degree is a class C felony punishable as provided in AS 12.55. Failure to stop at the direction of a peace officer in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.","path":["Title 28. Motor Vehicles.","Chapter 35. Offenses and Accidents.","Article 3. Miscellaneous Offenses."],"source_url":"https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#28.35.182","current_through":"Alaska Statutes 2025 (34th Legislature, 2025-2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:18:11Z","sha256":"60702d9327dcf53769d5e96a20b9aa85103db6a791f0c073adaad54801413bdb","source_id":"us-ak","stale":false,"prev":"us-ak/as-28.35.180","next":"us-ak/as-28.35.185"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}