
      (a) As used in this chapter, the term "riot" means a public
    disturbance involving (1) an act or acts of violence by one or more
    persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons, which act
    or acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or shall
    result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or
    to the person of any other individual or (2) a threat or threats of
    the commission of an act or acts of violence by one or more persons
    part of an assemblage of three or more persons having, individually
    or collectively, the ability of immediate execution of such threat
    or threats, where the performance of the threatened act or acts of
    violence would constitute a clear and present danger of, or would
    result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or
    to the person of any other individual.
      (b) As used in this chapter, the term "to incite a riot", or "to
    organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot",
    includes, but is not limited to, urging or instigating other
    persons to riot, but shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or
    written (1) advocacy of ideas or (2) expression of belief, not
    involving advocacy of any act or acts of violence or assertion of
    the rightness of, or the right to commit, any such act or acts.

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