15.2-925 - Regulation, etc., of assemblies or movement of persons or vehicles under certain circumstances. - Virginia Statutes

§ 15.2-925. Regulation, etc., of assemblies or movement of persons orvehicles under certain circumstances.

Any locality may empower the chief law-enforcement officer to regulate,restrict or prohibit any assembly of persons or the movement of persons orvehicles if there exists an imminent threat of any civil commotion ordisturbance in the nature of a riot which constitutes a clear and presentdanger. In such circumstances the governing body may convene immediately in aspecial meeting and enact an emergency ordinance or ordinances for suchpurposes, notwithstanding any contrary provisions in any charter or under thegeneral law.

(1968, c. 459, § 15.1-514.1; 1997, c. 587.)