---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 11.442"
title: "25"
number: "11.442"
heading: "Riot; failure to disperse."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/11.442"
---

# §11.442. Riot; failure to disperse.

- (a) A person is guilty of riot, a misdemeanor, if he or she participates with two or more others in a course of disorderly conduct:
  - (1) With purpose to commit or facilitate the commission of a felony or misdemeanor; or
  - (2) With purpose to prevent or coerce official action; or
  - (3) When the actor or any other participant to the knowledge of the actor uses or plans to use a firearm or other deadly weapon.
- (b) Where three or more persons are participating in a course of disorderly conduct likely to cause substantial harm or serious inconvenience, a law enforcement officer may order the participants and others in the immediate vicinity to disperse. A person who refuses or knowingly fails to obey such an order commits a misdemeanor.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; R.S. 463, 25 U.S.C. 2; R.S. 465, 25 U.S.C. 9; 42 Stat. 208, 25 U.S.C. 13; 38 Stat. 586, 25 U.S.C. 200.

### Source

Source: 58 FR 54411, Oct. 21, 1993, unless otherwise noted.