Georgia Commons

Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 11. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER AND SAFETY · Article 2. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER

16-11-31. Inciting to riot.

Active

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    A person who with intent to riot does an act or engages in conduct which urges, counsels, or advises others to riot, at a time and place and under circumstances which produce a clear and present danger of a riot, commits the offense of inciting to riot.#

  2. (b)

    Any person who violates subsection (a) of this Code section is guilty of a misdemeanor.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1933, § 26-2602, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1; Ga. L. 1969, p. 857, § 20.

Cross references

Constitutional guarantee of free speech and press, Ga. Const. 1983, Art. I, Sec. I, Para. V.

Read the official page (the state's PDF, opened at the page this text was read from).

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t16-ch7-11-(v14a)-2018-pdf.pdf, Volume V14A, 2018 edition, page 752; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 5985d65f23ef.

Ask about this section

The answer is drawn from this section and, when they fit, the other sections of its chapter. It quotes the text and names the section for each claim. Not legal advice.

Answers come from this document. Not legal advice.