(a) A person commits the crime of resisting or interfering with arrest if, knowing that a peace officer is making an arrest, with the intent of preventing the officer from making the arrest, the person resists personal arrest or interferes with the arrest of another by
(1) force;
(2) committing any degree of criminal mischief; or
(3) any means that creates a substantial risk of physical injury to any person.
(b) Resisting or interfering with arrest is a class A misdemeanor.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Chapter 56. Offenses Against Public Administration
Article 5. Obstruction of Public Administration.
Sec. 11.56.700. Resisting or interfering with arrest.
Sec. 11.56.705. Harming a police dog in the first degree.
Sec. 11.56.710. Harming a police dog in the second degree.
Sec. 11.56.715. Defense to harming a police dog.
Sec. 11.56.720. Refusing to assist a peace officer or judicial officer.
Sec. 11.56.730. Failure to appear.
Sec. 11.56.740. Violating a protective order.
Sec. 11.56.745. Interfering with a report of a crime involving domestic violence.
Sec. 11.56.750. Unlawful contact in the first degree.
Sec. 11.56.755. Unlawful contact in the second degree.
Sec. 11.56.757. Violation of condition of release.
Sec. 11.56.758. Violation of custodian's duty.
Sec. 11.56.759. Violation by sex offender of condition of probation.
Sec. 11.56.760. Violating an order to submit to DNA testing.
Sec. 11.56.762. Unlawful use of DNA samples.
Sec. 11.56.765. Failure to report a violent crime committed against a child.
Sec. 11.56.767. Failure to report a violent crime committed against an adult.
Sec. 11.56.770. Hindering prosecution in the first degree.
Sec. 11.56.780. Hindering prosecution in the second degree.
Sec. 11.56.800. False information or report.
Sec. 11.56.805. False accusation.
Sec. 11.56.807. Terroristic threatening in the first degree.
Sec. 11.56.810. Terroristic threatening in the second degree.
Sec. 11.56.815. Tampering with public records in the first degree.
Sec. 11.56.820. Tampering with public records in the second degree.
Sec. 11.56.825. Unlawful possession or use of traffic preemption device.
Sec. 11.56.827. Impersonating a public servant in the first degree.
Sec. 11.56.830. Impersonating a public servant in the second degree.
Sec. 11.56.835. Failure to register as a sex offender or child kidnapper in the first degree.
Sec. 11.56.840. Failure to register as a sex offender or child kidnapper in the second degree.
Sec. 11.56.845. Hindering the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee.