Refusal to disperse

A.S.C.A. § 46.4506 — under Offenses Against Public Order.

A.S.C.A. § 46.4506

(a) A person commits the crime of refusal to disperse if, being present at the scene of an unlawful assembly, or at the scene of a riot, he knowingly fails or refuses to obey the lawful command of a law enforcement officer to depart from the scene of that unlawful assembly or riot.

(b) Refusal to disperse is a class C misdemeanor.

History: 1979, PL 16-43 § 2.