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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>83452</law_id><section_number>18.2-406</section_number><catch_line>What constitutes an unlawful assembly; punishment</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>17.1-805</reference><reference>19.2-392.02</reference><reference>19.2-392.12</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="9">Crimes Against Peace and Order</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Riot and Unlawful Assembly</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Whenever three or more persons assembled share the common <span class="dictionary">intent</span> to advance some lawful or unlawful purpose by the commission of an act or acts of unlawful force or violence likely to jeopardize seriously public safety, peace or <span class="dictionary">order</span>, and the assembly actually tends to inspire persons of ordinary courage with well-grounded fear of serious and immediate breaches of public safety, peace or <span class="dictionary">order</span>, then such assembly is an unlawful assembly. Every person who participates in any unlawful assembly shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>. If any such person carried, at the time of his participation in an unlawful assembly, any firearm or other deadly or dangerous weapon, he shall be guilty of a Class 5 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 18.1-254.1, 18.1-254.3; 1968, c. 460; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 251; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
