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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="21-904" title_number="21" title_name="Vehicle Laws -- Rules of the Road" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Reckless, Negligent, or Impaired Driving; Fleeing or Eluding Police">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “visual or audible signal” includes a signal by hand, voice, emergency light or siren.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If a police officer gives a visual or audible signal to stop and the police officer is in uniform, prominently displaying the police officer’s badge or other insignia of office, a driver of a vehicle may not attempt to elude the police officer by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Willfully failing to stop the driver’s vehicle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Fleeing on foot; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any other means.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If a police officer gives a visual or audible signal to stop and the police officer, whether or not in uniform, is in a vehicle appropriately marked as an official police vehicle, a driver of a vehicle may not attempt to elude the police officer by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Willfully failing to stop the driver’s vehicle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Fleeing on foot; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any other means.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A driver may not commit a violation of subsection (b)(1) or (c)(1) of this section that results in bodily injury to another person.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A driver may not commit a violation of subsection (b)(1) or (c)(1) of this section that results in death of another person.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this subsection, “crime of violence” has the meaning stated in § 14–101 of the Criminal Law Article.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A driver may not commit a violation of subsection (b)(1) or (c)(1) of this section while the driver is attempting to elude a police officer who is signaling for the driver to stop for the purpose of apprehending the driver for the commission of a crime of violence for which the driver is subsequently convicted.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection, a person convicted of a violation of this section is subject to:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>For a first offense, imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>For a second or subsequent offense, imprisonment not exceeding 2 years or a fine not exceeding $1,000 or both.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person convicted of a violation of subsection (d)(1) or (e) of this section is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 3 years or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A person convicted of a violation of subsection (d)(2) of this section is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 10 years or a fine not exceeding $5,000 or both.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
