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The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 870
AFFRAYS; RIOTS; ROUTS; UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES
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F.S. 870.01
870.01 Affrays and riots.
(1) A person commits an affray if he or she engages, by mutual consent, in fighting with another person in a public place to the terror of the people. A person who commits an affray commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
(2) A person commits a riot if he or she willfully participates in a violent public disturbance involving an assembly of three or more persons, acting with a common intent to assist each other in violent and disorderly conduct, resulting in:
(a) Injury to another person;
(b) Damage to property; or
(c) Imminent danger of injury to another person or damage to property.

A person who commits a riot commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(3) A person commits aggravated rioting if, in the course of committing a riot, he or she:
(a) Participates with 25 or more other persons;
(b) Causes great bodily harm to a person not participating in the riot;
(c) Causes property damage in excess of $5,000;
(d) Displays, uses, threatens to use, or attempts to use a deadly weapon; or
(e) By force, or threat of force, endangers the safe movement of a vehicle traveling on a public street, highway, or road.

A person who commits aggravated rioting commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(4) A person commits inciting a riot if he or she willfully incites another person to participate in a riot, resulting in a riot or imminent danger of a riot. A person who commits inciting a riot commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
(5) A person commits aggravated inciting a riot if he or she:
(a) Incites a riot resulting in great bodily harm to another person not participating in the riot;
(b) Incites a riot resulting in property damage in excess of $5,000; or
(c) Supplies a deadly weapon to another person or teaches another person to prepare a deadly weapon with intent that the deadly weapon be used in a riot for an unlawful purpose.

A person who commits aggravated inciting a riot commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(6) Except for a violation of subsection (1), a person arrested for a violation of this section shall be held in custody until brought before the court for admittance to bail in accordance with chapter 903.
(7) This section does not prohibit constitutionally protected activity such as a peaceful protest.
History.s. 35, Feb. 10, 1832; RS 2406; GS 3239; RGS 5072; CGL 7174; s. 1, ch. 67-407; s. 1125, ch. 71-136; s. 15, ch. 2021-6; s. 67, ch. 2022-4.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 870.01
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S870.01 1 - DISORDERLY CONDUCT - AFFRAY - M: F
S870.01 2 - RIOT - RENUMBERED. SEE REC # 9431 - F: T
S870.01 2a - RIOT - RIOT INJURY TO PERSON - F: T
S870.01 2b - RIOT - RIOT DAMAGE TO PROPERTY - F: T
S870.01 2c - RIOT - RIOT W IMMINENT INJURY PERSON OR DAMAGE PROP - F: T
S870.01 3a - RIOT - AGG RIOT 25 OR MORE PERSONS - F: S
S870.01 3b - RIOT - AGG RIOT GREAT BODILY HARM - F: S
S870.01 3c - RIOT - AGG RIOT PROPERTY DAMAGE GREATER THAN 5K DOLS - F: S
S870.01 3d - RIOT - AGG RIOT WITH DEADLY WEAPON - F: S
S870.01 3e - RIOT - AGG RIOT ENDANGER VEHICLE TRAVEL - F: S
S870.01 4 - RIOT - INCITE OR ENCOURAGE RIOT - F: T
S870.01 5a - RIOT - AGG INCITE RIOT GREAT BODILY HARM - F: S
S870.01 5b - RIOT - AGG INCITE RIOT PROPERTY DAMAGE > 5K DOLS - F: S
S870.01 5c - RIOT - AGG INCITE RIOT PROVIDE PREP DEADLY WEAPON - F: S



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