Every person guilty of participating in any riot is punishable as follows:

1. If any murder, maiming, robbery, rape or arson was committed in the course of such riot, such person is punishable in the same manner as a principal in such crime;

2. If the purpose of the riotous assembly was to resist the execution of any statute of this state or of the United States, or to obstruct any public officer of this state or of the United States, in the performance of any legal duty, or in serving or executing any legal process, such person shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding ten (10) years and not less than two (2) years;

3. If such person carried at the time of such riot any species of firearms, or other deadly or dangerous weapon, or was disguised, such person shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding ten (10) years and not less than two (2) years;

4. If such person directed, advised, encouraged or solicited other persons, who participated in the riot to acts of force or violence, such person shall be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding twenty (20) years and not less than two (2) years;

5. In all other cases such person is punishable as for a misdemeanor.

R.L. 1910, § 2559. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 339, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 233, eff. July 1, 1999.

NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 339 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.