CODE OF VIRGINIA

REGULATION, ETC., OF ASSEMBLIES OR MOVEMENT OF PERSONS OR VEHICLES UNDER CERTAIN
CIRCUMSTANCES (§ 15.2-925)

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

HISTORY: 1968, c. 459, § 15.1-514.1; 1997, c. 587.