Florida Statutes Title XLVI Chapter 876 - Criminal Anarchy, Treason, And Other Crimes Against Public Order

• 876.01 - Advocacy Of Specified Doctrines Relating To Overthrow Of Constitutional Government By Force Or Violence Prohibited.
  “Criminal anarchy,” “criminal Communism,” “criminal Naziism,” or “criminal Fascism” are doctrines that existing form of constitutional government should be overthrown by force or violence or...
• 876.02 - Criminal Anarchy, Communism, And Other Specified Doctrines; Prohibitions.
  Any person who:(1) By word of mouth or writing advocates, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, or propriety of overthrowing or overturning existing forms of constitutional...
• 876.03 - Unlawful Assembly For Purposes Of Anarchy, Communism, Or Other Specified Doctrines.
  Whenever two or more persons assemble for the purpose of promoting, advocating, or teaching the doctrine of criminal anarchy, criminal Communism, criminal Naziism or criminal...
• 876.04 - Allowing Unlawful Assembly In Building Prohibited.
  No owner, agent, superintendent, janitor, caretaker, or occupant of any place, building, or room, shall willfully and knowingly permit therein any assemblage of persons prohibited...
• 876.05 - Public Employees; Oath.
  (1) All persons who now or hereafter are employed by or who now or hereafter are on the payroll of the state, or any of its...
• 876.06 - Discharge For Refusal To Execute.
  If any person required by ss. 876.05-876.10 to take the oath herein provided for fails to execute the same, the governing authority under which such...
• 876.08 - Penalty For Not Discharging.
  Any governing authority or person, under whom any employee is serving or by whom employed who shall knowingly or carelessly permit any such employee to...
• 876.09 - Scope Of Law.
  (1) The provisions of ss. 876.05-876.10 shall apply to all employees and elected officers of the state, including the Governor and constitutional officers and all employees...
• 876.10 - False Oath; Penalty.
  If any person required by the provisions of ss. 876.05-876.10 to execute the oath herein required executes such oath, and it is subsequently proven that...
• 876.11 - Public Place Defined.
  For the purpose of ss. 876.11-876.21 the term “public place” includes all walks, alleys, streets, boulevards, avenues, lanes, roads, highways, or other ways or thoroughfares...
• 876.12 - Wearing Mask, Hood, Or Other Device On Public Way.
  No person or persons over 16 years of age shall, while wearing any mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so...
• 876.13 - Wearing Mask, Hood, Or Other Device On Public Property.
  No person or persons shall in this state, while wearing any mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed,...
• 876.14 - Wearing Mask, Hood, Or Other Device On Property Of Another.
  No person or persons over 16 years of age shall, while wearing a mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so...
• 876.15 - Wearing Mask, Hood, Or Other Device At Demonstration Or Meeting.
  No person or persons over 16 years of age, shall, while wearing a mask, hood, or device whereby any portion of the face is so...
• 876.155 - Applicability; Ss. 876.12-876.15.
  The provisions of ss. 876.12-876.15 apply only if the person was wearing the mask, hood, or other device:(1) With the intent to deprive any person or...
• 876.16 - Sections 876.11-876.15; Exemptions.
  The following persons are exempted from the provisions of ss. 876.11-876.15:(1) Any person or persons wearing traditional holiday costumes;(2) Any person or persons engaged in trades and...
• 876.17 - Placing Burning Or Flaming Cross In Public Place.
  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to place or cause to be placed in a public place in the state a burning...
• 876.18 - Placing Burning Or Flaming Cross On Property Of Another.
  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to place or cause to be placed on the property of another in the state a...
• 876.19 - Exhibits That Intimidate.
  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to place, or cause to be placed, anywhere in the state any exhibit of any kind...
• 876.20 - Wearing Mask And Placing Exhibit To Intimidate.
  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons while wearing a mask or any device whereby the face is so covered as to conceal...
• 876.21 - Sections 876.11-876.20; Penalty.
  Any person or persons violating ss. 876.11-876.20, except as provided in s. 876.18, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as...
• 876.22 - Subversive Activities Law; Definitions.
  As used in ss. 876.23-876.31:(1) “Organizations” means an organization, corporation, company, partnership, association, trust, foundation, fund, club, society, committee, political party, or any group of persons,...
• 876.23 - Subversive Activities Unlawful; Penalty.
  (1) It shall be a felony for any person knowingly and willfully to:(a) Commit, attempt to commit, or aid in the commission of any act intended to...
• 876.24 - Membership In Subversive Organization; Penalty.
  It shall be unlawful for any person after the effective date of this law to become or after July 1, 1953, to remain a member...
• 876.25 - Persons Convicted Under S. 876.23 Or S. 876.24 Not To Hold Office Or Vote.
  Any person convicted by a court of competent jurisdiction of violating any of the provisions of s. 876.23 or s. 876.24, in addition to all...
• 876.26 - Unlawful For Subversive Organizations To Exist Or Function.
  It shall be unlawful for any subversive organization or foreign subversive organization to exist or function in the state and any organization which by a...
• 876.27 - Enforcement Of Ss. 876.22-876.31.
  The Department of Legal Affairs, all state attorneys, the Department of State, and all law enforcement officers of this state shall each be charged with...
• 876.28 - Grand Jury To Investigate Violations Of Ss. 876.22-876.31.
  The judge of any court exercising general criminal jurisdiction when in his or her discretion it appears appropriate, or when informed by the Department of...
• 876.29 - Subversive Person Prohibited From Holding Office Or Employment.
  No subversive person, as defined in s. 876.22, shall, after conviction, be eligible for employment in, or appointment to, any office or any position of...
• 876.30 - Subversive Person Not To Be Candidate For Election.
  No person shall become a candidate nor shall be certified by any political party as a candidate for election to any public office created by...
• 876.31 - Short Title; Ss. 876.22-876.30.
  Sections 876.22-876.30 may be cited as the “Subversive Activities Law.”History.—s. 10, ch. 28221, 1953.
• 876.32 - Treason.
  Treason against the state shall consist only in levying war against the same, or in adhering to the enemies thereof, or giving them aid and...
• 876.33 - Misprision Of Treason.
  Whoever having knowledge of the commission of treason conceals the same and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known such treason...
• 876.34 - Combination To Usurp Government.
  If two or more persons shall combine by force to usurp the government of this state, or to overturn the same, or interfere forcibly in...
• 876.35 - Combination Against Part Of The People Of The State.
  If two or more persons shall combine to levy war against any part of the people of this state, or to remove them forcibly out...
• 876.36 - Inciting Insurrection.
  If any person shall incite an insurrection or sedition amongst any portion or class of the population of this state, or shall attempt by writing,...
• 876.37 - Sabotage Prevention Law; Definitions.
  As used in ss. 876.37-876.50:(1) “Highway” includes any private or public street, way, or other place used for travel to or from property.(2) “Highway commissioners” means any...
• 876.38 - Intentional Injury To Or Interference With Property.
  Whoever intentionally destroys, impairs, or injures, or interferes or tampers with, real or personal property and such act hinders, delays, or interferes with the preparation...
• 876.39 - Intentionally Defective Workmanship.
  Whoever intentionally makes or causes to be made or omits to note on inspection any defect in any article or thing with reasonable grounds to...
• 876.40 - Attempts.
  Whoever attempts to commit any of the crimes defined by this law shall be liable to one-half the punishment by imprisonment, or by fine, or...
• 876.41 - Conspirators.
  If two or more persons conspire to commit any crime defined by this law, each of such persons is guilty of conspiracy and subject to...
• 876.42 - Witnesses’ Privileges.
  No person shall be excused from attending and testifying, or producing any books, papers, or other documents before any court, referee, or grand jury upon...
• 876.43 - Unlawful Entry On Property.
  Any individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipal corporation or state or any political subdivision thereof engaged in, or preparing to engage in, the manufacture, transportation or...
• 876.44 - Questioning And Detaining Suspected Persons.
  Any peace officer or any other person employed as a person who watches or guards or in a supervisory capacity on premises posted as provided...
• 876.45 - Closing And Restricting Use Of Highway.
  (1) Any individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipal corporation or state or any political subdivision thereof engaged in or preparing to engage in the manufacture, transportation or...
• 876.46 - Penalty For Going Upon Closed Or Restricted Highway.
  Whoever violates any order made under s. 876.45 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or...
• 876.47 - Rights Of Labor.
  Nothing in this law shall be construed to impair, curtail, or destroy the rights of employees and their representatives to self-organization, to form, join, or...
• 876.48 - Relation To Other Statutes.
  All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with ss. 876.37-876.51 are hereby suspended in their application to any proceedings under said sections. If conduct prohibited...
• 876.49 - Construction.
  Sections 876.37-876.51 shall be construed to the end that the greatest force and effect may be given to its provisions for the promotion of national...
• 876.50 - Effective Period Of Law.
  All orders made under the provision of ss. 876.37-876.51 shall be in full force whenever the United States is at war; provided, any violation of...
• 876.51 - Short Title.
  Sections 876.37-876.51 may be cited as the “Florida Sabotage Prevention Law.”History.—s. 13, ch. 20252, 1941; s. 65, ch. 74-383; s. 246, ch. 77-104.Note.—Former s. 779.20.
• 876.52 - Public Mutilation Of Flag.
  Whoever publicly mutilates, defaces, or tramples upon or burns with intent to insult any flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States or of...

Last modified: September 23, 2016