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Pleasant Hill adopts ordinance changes to align resisting-arrest and hit-and-run rules with state law
Summary
Council approved Bill 2623 to amend city code so the 'leaving the scene' and 'resisting/interfering with arrest' provisions match state law language; staff said the city prosecutor requested the alignment.
The Pleasant Hill City Council unanimously adopted Bill 2623 to amend two city-code provisions — one addressing leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident and the other addressing resisting or interfering with arrest — to bring local code into alignment with state law.
A city staff member explained the change to the hit-and-run provision would lower the local burden of proof from requiring knowledge of injury or property damage to requiring knowledge only of the accident occurring, which would mirror state law. The staff presentation said this amendment followed a request from the city prosecutor so local code and state statute use consistent language.
The second change broadens the city's resisting-or-interfering-with-arrest language to reflect the wider set of conduct covered by state law, including certain flight from officers during stops or detentions. Captain Clay was asked to comment and declined; council then moved, seconded and voted to adopt the ordinance amendments.
The council recorded a unanimous roll-call vote in favor of the measure. The ordinance takes effect according to the city's standard codification process.
