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Fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer
ORS > Vehicle Code > Obeying Police Officer > 811.540
(1)(a) operating a motor vehicle AND
(a) LEO in uniform & prominently displaying badge or operating a marked police vehicle gives visual or audible signal to stop the vehicle, including any signal by hand, voice, emergency light/siren, & either:
(A) F(c): suspect, while in vehicle, knowingly flees or attempts to elude pursuing officer OR
(B) M(a): suspect gets out of vehicle & knowingly flees or attempts to elude police officer
(2) It's a defense to prosecution if after a LEO operating an unmarked vehicle signaled the driver to stop, that the driver proceeded lawfully to an area they reasonably believed was necessary to reach before stopping.
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