723.3  Failure to disperse.

A peace officer may order the participants in a riot or unlawful assembly or persons in the immediate vicinity of a riot or unlawful assembly to disperse. Any person within hearing distance of such command, who refuses to obey, commits a simple misdemeanor.

Section History: Early form

  [C51, § 2797, 2798, 2801; R60, § 4493, 4494, 4497; C73, § 4149, 4150, 4153; C97, § 5147, 5148, 5151; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 13342, 13343, 13346; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 743.4, 743.5, 743.8; C79, 81, § 723.3]


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