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Resisting or interfering with an officer - 34 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 904

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     § 904.  Resisting or interfering with an officer.
        (a)  General offense.--When an officer is in the performance
     of any duty required by this title, it is unlawful for any
     person to interfere with or resist an arrest, inspection or
     investigation of the officer by threat, force, menace, flight or
     obstruction. A violation of this subsection is a summary offense
     of the first degree.
        (b)  Failure to produce identification upon demand.--
            (1)  A person who refuses to provide identification upon
        demand of an officer whose duty it is to enforce this title
        after having been told by the officer that the person is the
        subject of an official investigation commits a summary
        offense of the fifth degree.
            (2)  A person who provides false identification to an
        officer whose duty it is to enforce this title for the
        purpose of avoiding prosecution or hindering apprehension or
        obstructing an investigation commits a summary offense of the
        second degree.
     (June 23, 2004, P.L.434, No.42, eff. 60 days)

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