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La. Rev. Stat. § 14:103 (2026)

Disturbing the peace

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SUBPART C.  OFFENSES AFFECTING THE

GENERAL PEACE AND ORDER

§103.  Disturbing the peace

A.  Disturbing the peace is the doing of any of the following in such manner as would foreseeably disturb or alarm the public:

(1)  Engaging in a fistic encounter; or

(2)  Addressing any offensive, derisive, or annoying words to any other person who is lawfully in any street, or other public place; or call him by any offensive or derisive name, or make any noise or exclamation in his presence and hearing with the intent to deride, offend, or annoy him, or to prevent him from pursuing his lawful business, occupation, or duty; or

(3)  Appearing in an intoxicated condition; or

(4)  Engaging in any act in a violent and tumultuous manner by any three or more persons; or

(5)  Holding of an unlawful assembly; or

(6)  Interruption of any lawful assembly of people; or

(7)  Intentionally engaging in any act or any utterance, gesture, or display designed to disrupt a funeral, funeral route, or burial of a deceased person during the period beginning one hundred twenty minutes before and ending one hundred twenty minutes after the funeral or burial, within three hundred feet of the funeral or burial.

(8)(a)  Intentionally blocking, impeding, inhibiting, or in any other manner obstructing or interfering with a funeral route.

(b)  Intentionally blocking, impeding, inhibiting, or in any other manner obstructing or interfering, within five hundred feet, with access into or from any building or parking lot of a building in which a funeral or burial is being conducted, or any burial plot or the parking lot of the cemetery in which a funeral or burial is being conducted, during the period beginning one hundred twenty minutes before and ending one hundred twenty minutes after the funeral or burial.

B.(1)  Whoever commits the crime of disturbing the peace shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than ninety days, or both.

(2)  Whoever commits the crime of disturbing the peace as provided for in Paragraphs (A)(7) and (8) of this Section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

C.  For purposes of Paragraphs (A)(7) and (8) of this Section:

(1)  "Funeral" includes a funeral, funeral home viewing, wake, or memorial service.

(2)  "Funeral route" means the route of ingress or egress from the location of a funeral or burial, including thirty feet from the outer edge of the outside lane of the route.

Amended by Acts 1960, No. 70, §1; Acts 1963, No. 93, §1; Acts 1968, No. 647, §1; Acts 1979, No. 222, §1; Acts 2006, No. 805, §1; Acts 2013, No. 30, §1, eff. May 29, 2013.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 111 cases (13 in the last 5 years), 1962–2025 · leading case: State v. Trepagnier, 982 So. 2d 185 (La. Ct. App. 2008).
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State v. Trepagnier, 982 So. 2d 185 (La. Ct. App. 2008). · cites it 9× “R.S. 14:103; resisting an officer, in violation of La.”
State v. Chauvin, 945 So. 2d 752 (La. Ct. App. 2006). · cites it 6× “LSA-R.S. 14:103 defines disturbing the peace as: A.”
State v. Encalade, 505 So. 2d 87 (La. Ct. App. 1987). · cites it 14× “The bills of information brought against the defendants charged them with disturbing the peace in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:103, in that defendants “... did interrupt any lawful assembly of people namely: Plaquemines Parish Commission Council, in such a manner as to disturb or…”
State v. Stowe, 635 So. 2d 168 (La. 1994). · cites it 3× “, his actions had not "foreseeably disturb[ed] or alarm[ed] the public" within the meaning of LSA-R.S. 14:103. Rather, defendant's "crime" was bleeding in public and not accepting the additionally offered aide.”
State in Interest of Lewis, 386 So. 2d 1079 (La. Ct. App. 1980). · cites it 7× “Said petition charged Merlin with violating LSA-R.S. 14:103(A)(2), disturbing the peace; and LSA-R.”
State v. McCoy, 546 So. 2d 240 (La. Ct. App. 1989). · cites it 7× “On July 13, 1988 Lorenza McCoy was charged by separate bills of information with disturbing the peace, LSA-R.S. 14:103 A(2) and (3), and resisting an officer, LSA-R.”
State v. Armant, 839 So. 2d 271 (La. Ct. App. 2003). · cites it 3× “R.S. 14:103. In No. 66349 she was charged with resisting an officer, a violation of La.”
State v. Champagne, 520 So. 2d 447 (La. Ct. App. 1988). · cites it 8× “-R.S. 14:103 A(3). [1] Thereafter, defendant was sentenced to pay a fine of $50.”
State v. Wells, 45 So. 3d 577 (La. 2010). “LSA-R.S. 14:103, the disturbing the peace statute, provides in part: “Disturbing the peace is the doing of any of the following in such a manner as would foreseeably disturb or alarm the public: .”
State in Interest of JG, 641 So. 2d 633 (La. Ct. App. 1994). · cites it 3× “14:63, and one count of disturbing the peace, LSA-R.S. 14:103. After an adjudication hearing, the trial judge issued a judgment adjudicating J.”
State v. Woolverton, 474 So. 2d 1003 (La. Ct. App. 1985). · cites it 5× “Defendant, Leon Woolverton [1] , was charged by Bill of Information filed September 20, 1984 with breach of peace in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:103. We reverse. The arraignment of defendant was set for November 5, 1984, and the defendant at that time filed several pleadings on his…”
State v. Lindsay, 388 So. 2d 781 (La. 1980). · cites it 2× “" R.S. 14:103. In State v. Jordan, 369 So.2d 1347 (La.”
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— La. Rev. Stat. § 14:103(2) — 1 case
Craig v. Carter, 718 So. 2d 1068 (La. Ct. App. 1998).
— La. Rev. Stat. § 14:103(A) — 9 cases
State v. Trepagnier, 982 So. 2d 185 (La. Ct. App. 2008). “R.S. 14:103; resisting an officer, in violation of La.”
Murray v. Town of Mansura, 940 So. 2d 832 (La. Ct. App. 2006).
State v. Quest, 772 So. 2d 772 (La. Ct. App. 2000).
State v. Armant, 839 So. 2d 271 (La. Ct. App. 2003). “R.S. 14:103. In No. 66349 she was charged with resisting an officer, a violation of La.”
City of Baton Rouge v. Williams, 661 So. 2d 445 (La. 1995).
— La. Rev. Stat. § 14:103(A)(1) — 4 cases
Gray v. City of Denham Springs (M.D. La. 2021).
Tyson v. Daspit (W.D. La. 2020).
State ex rel. D.J., 149 So. 3d 923 (La. Ct. App. 2014).
State v. Mackey, 519 So. 2d 162 (La. Ct. App. 1987).
— La. Rev. Stat. § 14:103(A)(2) — 13 cases
State in Interest of Lewis, 386 So. 2d 1079 (La. Ct. App. 1980). “Said petition charged Merlin with violating LSA-R.S. 14:103(A)(2), disturbing the peace; and LSA-R.”
State v. Chauvin, 945 So. 2d 752 (La. Ct. App. 2006). “LSA-R.S. 14:103 defines disturbing the peace as: A.”
State v. Armant, 839 So. 2d 271 (La. Ct. App. 2003). “R.S. 14:103. In No. 66349 she was charged with resisting an officer, a violation of La.”
State v. Barr, 806 So. 2d 137 (La. Ct. App. 2001).
State v. Adams, 268 So. 2d 228 (La. 1972).
— La. Rev. Stat. § 14:103(A)(3) — 6 cases
State v. Trepagnier, 982 So. 2d 185 (La. Ct. App. 2008). “R.S. 14:103; resisting an officer, in violation of La.”
State v. Chauvin, 945 So. 2d 752 (La. Ct. App. 2006). “LSA-R.S. 14:103 defines disturbing the peace as: A.”
Persilver v. Louisiana Dep't of Transp., 592 So. 2d 1344 (La. Ct. App. 1991).
Terrell v. Allgrunn, 114 F.4th 428 (5th Cir. 2024).
State ex rel. of R.R., 503 So. 2d 87 (La. Ct. App. 1987).
— La. Rev. Stat. § 14:103(A)(6) — 1 case
State v. Encalade, 505 So. 2d 87 (La. Ct. App. 1987). “The bills of information brought against the defendants charged them with disturbing the peace in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:103, in that defendants “... did interrupt any lawful assembly of people namely: Plaquemines Parish Commission Council, in such a manner as to disturb or…”
— La. Rev. Stat. § 14:103(A)(7) — 1 case
City of Bossier v. Gray, 483 So. 2d 1090 (La. Ct. App. 1986).
— La. Rev. Stat. § 14:103(B) — 1 case
State v. Brown, 282 So. 2d 707 (La. 1973).
— La. Rev. Stat. § 14:103(B)(2) — 2 cases
State v. Encalade, 505 So. 2d 87 (La. Ct. App. 1987). “The bills of information brought against the defendants charged them with disturbing the peace in violation of LSA-R.S. 14:103, in that defendants “... did interrupt any lawful assembly of people namely: Plaquemines Parish Commission Council, in such a manner as to disturb or…”
State v. Brown, 282 So. 2d 707 (La. 1973).
— La. Rev. Stat. § 14:103(B)(2)(e) — 1 case
State v. Brown, 282 So. 2d 707 (La. 1973).
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