                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHAT CONSTITUTES AN UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY; PUNISHMENT (§ 18.2-406)

Whenever three or more persons assembled share the common intent 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 order, 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
order, then such assembly is an unlawful assembly. Every person who participates
in any unlawful assembly shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. 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
felony.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 18.1-254.1, 18.1-254.3; 1968, c. 460; 1971, Ex. Sess.,
c. 251; 1975, cc. 14, 15.