District of Columbia § 22-1307 Crowding, obstructing, or incommoding.

District of Columbia Statutes

§ 22-1307 — Crowding, obstructing, or incommoding.

District of Columbia § 22-1307

Title 22Criminal Offenses and Penalties.

Ch. 13Disturbances of the Public Peace.

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D.C. Code § 22-1307 (2026).

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(a)It is unlawful for a person, alone or in concert with others:

(1)To crowd, obstruct, or incommode:

(A)The use of any street, avenue, alley, road, highway, or sidewalk;

(B)The entrance of any public or private building or enclosure;

(C)The use of or passage through any public building or public conveyance; or

(D)The passage through or within any park or reservation; and

(2)To continue or resume the crowding, obstructing, or incommoding after being instructed by a law enforcement officer to cease the crowding, obstructing, or incommoding.

(1)It is unlawful for a person, alone or in concert with others, to engage in a demonstration in an area where it is otherwise unlawful to demonstrate and to continue or resume engaging in a demonstration after being

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(a) It is unlawful for a person, alone or in concert with others:

(1) To crowd, obstruct, or incommode:

(A) The use of any street, avenue, alley, road, highway, or sidewalk;

(B) The entrance of any public or private building or enclosure;

(C) The use of or passage through any public building or public conveyance; or

(D) The passage through or within any park or reservation; and

(2) To continue or resume the crowding, obstructing, or incommoding after being instructed by a law enforcement officer to cease the crowding, obstructing, or incommoding.

(1) It is unlawful for a person, alone or in concert with others, to engage in a demonstration in an area where it is otherwise unlawful to demonstrate and to continue or resume engaging in a demonstration after being instructed by a law enforcement officer to cease engaging in a demonstration.

(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term “demonstration” means marching, congregating, standing, sitting, lying down, parading, demonstrating, or patrolling by one or more persons, with or without signs, for the purpose of persuading one or more individuals, or the public, or to protest some action, attitude, or belief.

(c) A person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 , imprisoned for not more than 90 days, or both.

Legislative History

July 29, 1892, 27 Stat. 323, ch. 320, § 6; July 8, 1898, 30 Stat. 723, ch. 638; June 29, 1953, 67 Stat. 97, ch. 159, § 210; May 26, 2011, D.C. Law 18-375, § 2(a), 58 DCR 731; June 11, 2013, D.C. Law 19-317, § 214(a), 60 DCR 2064; June 19, 2013, D.C. Law 19-320, § 102, 60 DCR 3390