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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>79023</law_id><section_number>18.2-408</section_number><catch_line>Conspiracy; incitement, etc., to riot</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>19.2-305.1</reference><reference>19.2-392.02</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>Any person who conspires with others to cause or produce a riot, or directs, incites, or solicits other persons who participate in a riot to acts of force or violence, shall be guilty of a Class 5 <span class="dictionary">felony</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 18.1-254.5:1; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 251; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
