§ 6-5-201 — Definitions

Wyoming § 6-5-201

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 06: Crimes and Offenses
• Ch. 5: OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• Art. 2: HINDERING GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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(a) As used in this article:
(i) "Emergency" means a crime or a situation which
could result in a public official responding in an authorized
emergency vehicle or which could jeopardize public safety and
could result in the evacuation of any area, building, structure,
vehicle or other place people may enter;
(ii) "Official detention" means arrest, detention in
a facility for custody of persons under charge or conviction of
crime or alleged or found to be delinquent, detention for
extradition or deportation, or detention in any manner and in
any place for law enforcement purposes. "Official detention"
does not include supervision on probation or parole or
constraint incidental to release on bail;
(iii) "Relative" means a grandparent, grandchild,
mother, father, husband, wife, sister, brother or child; and
(iv) "Render assistance" means to:
(A) Harbor or conceal the person;
(B) Warn the person of impending discovery or
apprehension, excluding an official warning given in an effort
to bring the person into compliance with the law;
(C) Provide the person with money,
transportation, weapon, disguise or other thing to be used in
avoiding discovery or apprehension;
(D) By force, intimidation or deception,
obstruct anyone in the performance of any act which might aid in
the discovery, detection, apprehension, prosecution, conviction
or punishment of the person; or
(E) Conceal, destroy or alter any physical
evidence that might aid in the discovery, detection,
apprehension, prosecution, conviction or punishment of the
person.