(a) A person commits the offense of failure to disperse if, during a riot or an unlawful assembly, he or she refuses or knowingly fails to disperse when ordered to disperse by a law enforcement officer or other person engaged in enforcing or executing the law.
(b) It is a defense to a prosecution under this section that the actor was a news reporter or other person observing or recording the events on behalf of the news media not knowingly obstructing efforts by a law enforcement officer or other person engaged in enforcing or executing the law to control or abate the riot or unlawful assembly.
(c) Failure to disperse is a Class C misdemeanor.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 6 - Offenses Against Public Health, Safety, or Welfare
Chapter 71 - Riots, Disorderly Conduct, Etc.
Subchapter 2 - Offenses Generally
§ 5-71-206. Failure to disperse
§ 5-71-207. Disorderly conduct
§ 5-71-209. Harassing communications
§ 5-71-210. Communicating a false alarm
§ 5-71-211. Threatening a fire or bombing
§ 5-71-212. Public intoxication — Drinking in public
§ 5-71-214. Obstructing a highway or other public passage
§ 5-71-215. Defacing objects of public respect
§ 5-71-218. Possession of open container containing alcohol in a motor vehicle
§ 5-71-226. Disruption of campus activities
§ 5-71-228. Obstruction of shooting, hunting, fishing, or trapping activities
§ 5-71-230. Violation of the protection of peace for mourning at a funeral