Criminal Code of the Republic of China Article 149

This English translation was last updated on 2025-08-01, but the Chinese text was amended on 2026-07-22. Later amendments may not be reflected in the translation — please refer to the Chinese text.

Participants of a group of three or more people gathering at a public place, or place where the public may enter and exit, with the intention to employ violence or threats and who does not disperse after having been ordered three times or more to do so by a competent public official, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for less than six months, short-term detention, or a fine of no more than eighty thousand New Taiwan Dollars may be imposed. The ringleader shall be sentenced to imprisonment for less than three years.
中文原文 中華民國刑法第149條
在公共場所或公眾得出入之場所聚集三人以上,意圖為強暴脅迫,已受該管公務員解散命令三次以上而不解散者,在場助勢之人處六月以下有期徒刑、拘役或八萬元以下罰金;首謀者,處三年以下有期徒刑。

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