(1) No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer invested by law with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic.
(2) A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-8-104
Obedience to police officers
Known as the Jeff Roth and Brian Brown Bicycle Protection Act
The act spans §§ 55-8-101 to 55-8-307 (115 sections).
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case State v. Levitt (2001)
Most recently applied in 229 F. Supp. 3d 691 - United States v. Cline (January 2017)
Acts 1955, ch. 329, § 4; T.C.A., § 59-804; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.