                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                           CHAPTER 102--RIOTS
 
Sec. 2102. Definitions

    (a) As used in this chapter, the term ``riot'' means a public 
disturbance involving (1) an act or acts of violence by one or more 
persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons, which act or 
acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or shall result in, 
damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of 
any other individual or (2) a threat or threats of the commission of an 
act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of 
three or more persons having, individually or collectively, the ability 
of immediate execution of such threat or threats, where the performance 
of the threatened act or acts of violence would constitute a clear and 
present danger of, or would result in, damage or injury to the property 
of any other person or to the person of any other individual.
    (b) As used in this chapter, the term ``to incite a riot'', or ``to 
organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot'', 
includes, but is not limited to, urging or instigating other persons to 
riot, but shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or written (1) 
advocacy of ideas or (2) expression of belief, not involving advocacy of 
any act or acts of violence or assertion of the rightness of, or the 
right to commit, any such act or acts.

(Added Pub. L. 90-284, title I, Sec. 104(a), Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 
76.)
