REFERENCE TITLE: obstructing a highway; public thoroughfare

State of Arizona Senate Fifty-second Legislature First Regular Session 2015

SB 1063

Introduced by Senator Kavanagh

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 13-2906, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to offenses against public order.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 13-2906, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-2906.  Obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare; classification

A.  A person commits obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare if, having no legal privilege to do so, such the person, alone or with other persons, does either of the following:

1.  Recklessly interferes with the passage of any highway or public thoroughfare by creating an unreasonable inconvenience or hazard.

2.  Intentionally activates a pedestrian signal on a highway or public thoroughfare if the person's reason for activating the signal is not to cross the highway or public thoroughfare but to do both of the following:

(a)  Stop the passage of traffic on the highway or public thoroughfare.

(b)  Solicit a driver for a donation or business.

B.  Obstructing a highway or other public thoroughfare is a class 3 misdemeanor. END_STATUTE