The following provisions shall apply during a state of emergency.
A.A person is guilty of riot when he participates with two or more persons in a course of disorderly conduct: 1. With intent to commit or facilitate the commission of a felony or misdemeanor; 2. With intent to prevent or coerce official action; or 3. When the accused or any other participant to the knowledge of the accused uses or plans to use a firearm or other deadly weapon.
B.Any person upon any public way within the described area who is directed by the authorities to leave the public way but refuses to do so shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
C.Any person who violates the provisions of this section, except subsection B of this section, shall be guilty of a Class B4 felony offense, and upon conviction thereof shall be
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The following provisions shall apply during a state of emergency. A. A person is guilty of riot when he participates with two or more persons in a course of disorderly conduct: 1. With intent to commit or facilitate the commission of a felony or misdemeanor; 2. With intent to prevent or coerce official action; or 3. When the accused or any other participant to the knowledge of the accused uses or plans to use a firearm or other deadly weapon. B. Any person upon any public way within the described area who is directed by the authorities to leave the public way but refuses to do so shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. C. Any person who violates the provisions of this section, except subsection B of this section, shall be guilty of a Class B4 felony offense, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned for not less than two (2) years nor more than ten (10) years. D. Any person sixteen (16) years of age or over who violates the provisions of this section shall be prosecuted as an adult. E. A person is guilty of a Class B4 felony offense under this section committed by another person when: 1. Acting with the state of mind that is sufficient for commission of the offense, he causes an innocent or irresponsible person to engage in conduct constituting the offense; 2. Intending to promote or facilitate the commission of the offense he: a. solicits, requests, commands, importunes, or otherwise attempts to cause the other person to commit it, b. aids, counsels, or agrees or attempts to aid the other person in planning or committing it, or c. having a legal duty to prevent the commission of the offense, fails to make a proper effort to do so; or 3. The person's conduct is expressly declared by a statute of this state to establish the person's complicity. F. In any prosecution for an offense under this section in which the criminal liability of the accused is based upon the conduct of another person pursuant to this section, it is no defense that: 1. The other person is not guilty of the offense in question because of irresponsibility or other legal incapacity or exemption, or because of unawareness of the criminal nature of the conduct in question or of the accused's criminal purpose, or because of other factors precluding the mental state required for the commission of the offense; or 2. The other person has not been prosecuted for or convicted of any offense based on the conduct in question, or has previously been acquitted thereof, or has been convicted of a different offense or in a different degree, or has legal immunity from prosecution for the conduct in question. G. “Disorderly conduct” as used in this section means a course of conduct by a person who: 1. Causes public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, or recklessly creates a risk thereof, by: a. engaging in fighting or in violent, tumultuous, or threatening behavior, b. making an unreasonable noise or an offensively coarse utterance, gesture, or display, or addressing abusive language to any person present, c. dispersing any lawful procession or meeting of persons, not being a peace officer of this state and without lawful authority, or d. creating a hazardous or physically offensive condition which serves no legitimate purpose; or 2. Engages with at least one other person in a course of disorderly conduct as defined in paragraph 1 of this subsection which is likely to cause substantial harm or serious inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, and refuses or knowingly fails to obey an order to disperse, made by a peace officer to the participants.
Added by Laws 1968, c. 125, § 8, emerg. eff. April 4, 1968. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 344, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 237, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2025, c. 486, § 139, eff. Jan. 1, 2026. NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 344 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.