Kansas Statutes Annotated
K.S.A. § 8-1503 (2026)
Required obedience to lawful order of police officer or fireman; misdemeanor
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8-1503. Required obedience to lawful order of police officer or fireman; misdemeanor. No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer or fireman invested by law with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic. Violation of this section is a misdemeanor.
History: L. 1974, ch. 33, § 8-1503; L. 1984, ch. 39, § 2; January 1, 1985.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7
cases, 1980–2013 · leading case: State v. Miller, 308 P.3d 24 (Kan. Ct. App. 2013).
State v. Miller, 308 P.3d 24 (Kan. Ct. App. 2013). “He arrested her after she performed poorly on some field-sobriety tests, and her evidentiary breath test resulted in a .122 reading, well above the legal limit of .”
State v. Greene, 623 P.2d 933 (Kan. Ct. App. 1981). “21-3705, and failure to obey the lawful order of a police officer under K.S.A. 8-1503. They were each fined $50.00 and costs, and they have appealed.”
State v. Seabury, 985 P.2d 1162 (Kan. 1999). “We recognized in Hagen that the legislature had provided a specific statute for willfully failing to comply with a lawful traffic regulation, K.S.A. 8-1503. However, Hagen was not charged under K.”
State v. Hagen, 750 P.2d 403 (Kan. 1988). “It is K.S.A. 1987 Supp. 8-1503, which provides: “No person shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer or fireman invested by law with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic.”
United States v. Mendez-Lopez, 338 F.3d 1153 (10th Cir. 2003). “Kan. Stat. Ann. § 8-1503 (designating as a misdemeanor the “willful[ ] failfure] or refusal] to comply with any lawful order or direction of any police officer”); Kan.”
State v. Jackson, 613 P.2d 398 (Kan. Ct. App. 1980). “If so, the owner of the animal in this casé was guilty of refusing to comply with the lawful order of an officer directing traffic, in violation of K.S.A. 8-1503, and was properly fined $25.”
Robert Parry Hagen v. Steven E. Coon, Dan Affalter, Ronald Dalquest, Donald Dalquest & the City of Lawrence, Kansas, 947 F.2d 953 (10th Cir. 1991). “19 On March 8, 1988, Wells filed a third complaint against Hagen, charging him with violation of K.S.A. 8-1503, prohibiting the willful failure to obey the order of a police officer directing traffic.”
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