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Bill Text

A737 

ASSEMBLY, No. 737 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman GREGORY P. MCGUCKIN

District 10 (Monmouth and Ocean)

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Sauickie

SYNOPSIS

���� Broadens offenses of riot and disorderly conduct; 
enhances penalties for public monument destruction; addresses riot victim 
assaults; creates crime of promotion of violent, disorderly assembly.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative 
Counsel.

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An Act concerning riot and related offenses and revising 
various parts of the statutory law and supplementing Title 2C of the New Jersey 
Statutes.� 

���� Be It 
Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.��� N.J.S.2C:33-1 is amended 
to read as follows:

���� 2C:33-1.���� Riot; Failure to 
Disburse.� a.� Riot.� A person is guilty of riot if he participates with four 
or more others in a course of disorderly conduct as defined in section 
2C:33-2a:

���� (1)�� With purpose to commit 
or facilitate the commission of a crime;

���� (2)�� With purpose to prevent 
or coerce official action; [or]

���� (3)�� When he or any other 
participant, known to him, uses or plans to use a firearm or other deadly 
weapon; or

���� (4)�� When he, with six or 
more others, causes damage to property or injury to another person.

���� Riot if committed under 
circumstances set forth in paragraph (3) or paragraph (4) is a crime� of 
the third degree.� Otherwise riot is a crime of the fourth degree.� 

���� b.��� Failure of disorderly 
persons to disperse upon official order. Where five or more persons are 
participating in a course of disorderly conduct� as defined in section 2C:33-2 
a. likely to cause substantial harm, a peace officer or other public servant 
engaged in executing or enforcing the law may order the participants and others 
in the immediate vicinity to disperse.� A person who refuses or knowingly fails 
to obey such an order commits a disorderly persons offense.

(cf: P.L.1981, c.290, s.35)

���� 2.��� N.J.S.2C:33-2 is amended 
to read as follows:

���� 2C:33-2.���� Disorderly 
Conduct.� a.� Improper behavior.� A person is guilty of a petty disorderly 
persons offense, if with purpose to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or 
alarm, or� recklessly creating a risk thereof he

���� (1)�� Engages in fighting or 
threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior;� or

���� (2)�� Creates a hazardous or 
physically dangerous condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of 
the actor.

���� b.��� Offensive language.� A 
person is guilty of a petty disorderly persons offense if, in a public place, 
and with purpose to offend the sensibilities of a hearer or in reckless 
disregard of the probability of so doing, he addresses unreasonably loud and 
offensively coarse or abusive language, given the circumstances of the person 
present and the setting of the utterance, to any person present.

���� "Public"� means 
affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which the public or a 
substantial group has access;� among the places included are highways, 
transport facilities, schools, prisons, apartment houses, places of business or 
amusement, or any neighborhood.

���� c.���� A person is guilty 
of a crime of the fourth degree if during a riot he commits a violation of this 
section in a place of public accommodation, resort or amusement.� 

���� �Place of public 
accommodation, resort or amusement� shall have the same meaning as in 
R.S.10:1-5.

(cf: P.L.1978, c.95, s.2C:33-2)

���� 3.��� N.J.S.2C:33-7 is amended 
to read as follows:

���� 2C:33-7.���� Obstructing 
Highways and Other Public Passages.� a.� A person, who, having no legal 
privilege to do so, purposely or recklessly obstructs any highway or other 
public passage whether alone or with others, commits a petty disorderly persons 
offense.� A person who violates this section in a course of riot as defined 
in N.J.S.2C:33-1 or disorderly conduct as defined in subsection a. of 
N.J.S.2C:33-2, commits a crime of the fourth degree.� "Obstructs" 
means renders impassable without unreasonable inconvenience or hazard.� No 
person shall be deemed guilty of recklessly obstructing in violation of this 
subsection solely because of a gathering of persons to hear him speak or otherwise 
communicate, or solely because of being a member of such a gathering.

���� b.��� A person in a gathering 
commits a petty disorderly persons offense if he refuses to obey a reasonable 
official request or order to move:

���� (1)�� To prevent obstruction 
of a highway or other public passage; or

���� (2)�� To maintain public 
safety by dispersing those gathered in dangerous proximity to a fire or other 
hazard.

���� An order to move, addressed to 
a person whose speech or other lawful behavior attracts an obstructing 
audience, shall not be deemed reasonable if the obstruction can be readily