Interference with Public Duties is a class B misdemeanor offense. If convicted, a person could receive up to six months in jail. It is a defense to prosecution that the interference alleged consisted of speech only.
TEXAS PENAL CODE
Sec. 38.15. INTERFERENCE WITH PUBLIC DUTIES. (a) A person commits an offense if the person with criminal negligence interrupts, disrupts, impedes, or otherwise interferes with: (1) a peace officer while the peace officer is performing a duty or exercising authority imposed or granted by law; (2) a person who is employed to provide emergency medical services including the transportation of ill or injured persons while the person is performing that duty; (3) a fire fighter, while the fire fighter is fighting a fire or investigating the cause of a fire; (4) an animal under the supervision of a peace officer, corrections officer, or jailer, if the person knows the animal is being used for law enforcement, corrections, prison or jail security, or investigative purposes; (5) the transmission of a communication over a citizen’s band radio channel, the purpose of which communication is to inform or inquire about an emergency; (6) an officer with responsibility for animal control in a county or municipality, while the officer is performing a duty or exercising authority imposed or granted under Chapter 821 or 822, Health and Safety Code; or (7) a person who: (A) has responsibility for assessing, enacting, or enforcing public health, environmental, radiation, or safety measures for the state or a county or municipality; (B) is investigating a particular site as part of the person’s responsibilities under Paragraph (A); (C) is acting in accordance with policies and procedures related to the safety and security of the site described by Paragraph (B); and (D) is performing a duty or exercising authority imposed or granted under the Agriculture Code, Health and Safety Code, Occupations Code, or Water Code. (b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor. (c) It is a defense to prosecution under Subsection (a)(1) that the conduct engaged in by the defendant was intended to warn a person operating a motor vehicle of the presence of a peace officer who was enforcing Subtitle C, Title 7, Transportation Code. (d) It is a defense to prosecution under this section that the interruption, disruption, impediment, or interference alleged consisted of speech only. (e) In this section, “emergency” means a condition or circumstance in which an individual is or is reasonably believed by the person transmitting the communication to be in imminent danger of serious bodily injury or in which property is or is reasonably believed by the person transmitting the communication to be in imminent danger of damage or destruction.
Attorneys Andy Nolen and Associates, Texas Criminal Defense Attorneys
The Houston, Texas Criminal Defense Attorneys Andy Nolen and Associates have handled over 3000 cases defending adults and juveniles in criminal, juvenile, and family courts in Harris County and throughout the State of Texas.
Houston, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Andy Nolen and Associates represent clients charged with crimes in State and Federal courts in Houston, Galveston, Houston, Houston, Texas, Beaumont, Austin, San Antonio, Waco, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Tyler, Sherman, Del Rio, Corpus Christi, Brownsville, Mc Allen, El Paso, Hempstead, Houston, Texas and all counties in Texas. The law firm of Andy Nolen and Associates is located in Houston, Texas; however, Attorney Andy Nolen appears in all criminal, juvenile, and family courts in Texas.
Harris County Criminal Defense Attorney Andy Nolen has over 19 years experience representing persons accused of committing criminal violations of State and Federal law.
Houston, Texas Criminal Attorney Andy Nolen treats every person they represent as if they were a friend and neighbor. When you call, likely Andy Nolen will answer your call himself. You will be dealing with Attorneys, not secretaries, assistants, or answering machines.
If we can be of any assistance, or you just want to talk about your situation, please call Texas Criminal Defense Attorney Andy Nolen at 713-697-4373.
Related articles
- You May Need a Liberty County Criminal Lawyer if the Police Are Investigating a Crime, Order You to Stop and You Take off Running like Flash Gordon (attorneyandynolen.com)
- You May Need a Liberty County Criminal Lawyer if You Set Off a Large Bag Full of Stink Bombs in the Courtroom While Your Homeboy Is on Trial for Resisting Arrest and the Police Officer Is Testifying that Your Homeboy’s Many Facial Injuries Were Not Caused (attorneyandynolen.com)
- You May Need a Liberty County Criminal Lawyer if Your Neighbor Gives You His Car to Transfer it to a Distant Relative of His but Instead You Sell it to Your Own Relatives in Mexico Without Permission Because You Needed Some Cash Fast to Bond Your Homie ou (attorneyandynolen.com)
- You May Need a Liberty County Criminal Lawyer if You’re So Ignorant, Thoughtless or Downright Stupid that You Carry Your Concealed Glock into the Courthouse (attorneyandynolen.com)
- You May Need a Hempstead TX Criminal Defense Lawyer if You Are So Angry at Your Husband that You Call 911 and Say that He Hit and Choked You When He Did Not (houstoncriminaldefenseattorney.info)
- You May Need a Conroe/Montgomery County Criminal Defense Lawyer if You Parked Your Ride Across the Sidewalk Because it was the Last Place to Park so You Could Participate in the Go Texan Parade (houstondrugdefense.net)
- Call a Hempstead TX/Waller County Criminal Lawyer if You Are Being Investigated for a Kidnapping or any Other Felony or Misdemeanor Level Crime (attorneyandynolen.com)
- Waller County Criminal Lawyers Prepare to Impeach the State’s Witnesses in Texas Jury Trials (attorneyandynolen.com)
- Waller County Criminal Lawyers Can Represent You if You are Arrested for Domestic Assault Family Violence (attorneyandynolen.com)
- You May Need a Waller County Criminal Lawyer if You Just Couldn’t Resist the Impulse to Break into the Shiny New BMW Parked in the Krogers Parking Lot to Steal the Fancy Looking Laptop Computer Perched on the Console (attorneyandynolen.com)
- You May Need a Liberty TX Criminal Lawyer if You Celebrate Your Friend’s Birthday by Getting Hammered Sharing a Kegger of Cold Beer and then Drive Your Child to the Movies (houstonjuveniledefense.com)
- You May Need a Conroe/Montgomery County Criminal Defense Lawyer if You Drank so Much at La Bamba Nightclub that on the Way Home You Get Lost and Drive into Lake Conroe (houstondrugdefense.net)
- You May Need a Hempstead TX Criminal Defense Lawyer if the Lure of Riches Leading You to Steal, Embezzle and Defraud (houstoncriminaldefenseattorney.info)
- You May Need a Liberty County Criminal Lawyer If You Beat Up Your Old Lady ‘Cause She Don’t Show You No Respect, She Then Has the Nerve to Call 911 and You Then Bust Up Her Cell Phone (attorneyandynolen.com)
- You May Need a Hempstead Criminal Defense Lawyer if You Go to Frazier’s, See an old Hempstead High School Bully in the Next Aisle Over, Get Mad and Knock Him Down with a Giant Concrete Statuary (attorneyandynolen.com)
- Charged with a Crime in Hempstead, Waller County? (attorneyandynolen.com)
- Liberty County Criminal Attorneys (attorneyandynolen.com)
