SAPD Penal Code Test 4
Failure to Identify - correct answer ✔✔A person commits an offense if he intentionally refuses to give his
name, residence address, or date of birth to a peace officer who has lawfully arrested the person and
requested the information
Fugitive from justice - correct answer ✔✔A person for whom a valid arrest warrant has been issued.
Impersonating Public Servant - correct answer ✔✔A person commits an offense if he impersonates a
public servant with intent to induce another to submit to his pretended official authority or to rely on his
pretended official acts; or knowingly purports to exercise, without legal authority, any function of a
public servant or of a public office, including that of a judge and court
False Identification as Peace Officer; Misrepresentation of Property - correct answer ✔✔A person
commits an offense if the person makes, provides to another person, or possesses a card, document,
badge, insignia, shoulder emblem, or other item, including a vehicle, bearing an insignia of a law
enforcement agency that identifies a person as a peace officer or a reserve law enforcement officer; and
the person who makes, provides, or possesses the item bearing the insignia knows that the person is
NOT commissioned as a peace officer or reserve law enforcement officer
Tampering with or Fabricating Physical Evidence - correct answer ✔✔A person commits an offense if,
knowing that an investigation or official proceeding is pending or in progress, he alters, destroys, or
conceals any record, document, or thing with intent to impair its verity, legibility, or availability as
evidence in the investigation or official proceeding or makes, presents, or uses any record, document, or
thing with knowledge of its falsity
Perjury - correct answer ✔✔A person commits an offense if, with intent to deceive and with knowledge
of the statement's meaning he makes a false statement under oath or swears to the truth of a false
statement previously made and the statement is required or authorized by law to be made under oath;
or he makes a false unsworn declaration
Aggravated Perjury - correct answer ✔✔A person commits an offense if he commits perjury and gives a
false statement that is made during or in connection with an official proceeding; and is material.
, False Report to Peace Officer - correct answer ✔✔A person commits an offense if, with intent to deceive,
he knowingly makes a false statement that is material to a criminal investigation and makes the
statement to a peace officer or federal special investigator conducting the investigation any employee of
a law enforcement agency that is authorized by the agency to conduct the investigation and that the
actor knows is conducting the investigation; or a corrections officer or jailer.
Acceptance of Honorarium - correct answer ✔✔A public servant commits an offense if the public servant
solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept an honorarium in consideration for services that the public servant
would not have been requested to provide but for the public servant's official position or duties
Obstruction or Retaliation - correct answer ✔✔A person commits an offense if the person intentionally
or knowingly harms or threatens to harm another by an unlawful act: in retaliation for or on account of
the service or status of another or to prevent or delay the service
Tampering with Witness - correct answer ✔✔A person commits this offense, if with intent to influence
the witness, he coerces the witness to:
testify falsely; withhold testimony; elude the legal process; be absent from official proceeding, or ; delay
prosecution
Coercion of Public Servant or Voter - correct answer ✔✔A person commits an offense if by means of
coercion he influences or attempts to influence a public servant in a specific exercise of his official power
or a specific performance of his official duty or influences or attempts to influence a public servant to
violate the public servant's known legal duty; or influences or attempts to influence a voter not to vote
or to vote in a particular manner
Bribery - correct answer ✔✔A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly offers, confers,
or agrees to confer on another, or solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept from another: Any benefit as
consideration for the recipients decision, opinion, recommendation, vote as a public servant, party, party
official, voter, or in a judicial/administrative proceeding
Offering Gift to Public Servant - correct answer ✔✔A person commits an offense if he offers, confers, or
agrees to confer any benefit on a public servant that he knows the public servant is prohibited by law
from accepting