1. If seven or more individuals gathered with the intent to commit a crime or achieve a common goal or they acted in such a way as to make people around them believe that – within the boundaries of logic - they will violate public security and that by them gathering they incite other persons to violate public security, such gathering shall be considered an unlawful one. 2. If the unlawfully gathered persons started to achieve the purpose and aim of their gathering in violating public security in a manner that frightens the public, such gathering shall be called a riot). Article (165) 1. Whoever participated in an unlawful gathering shall be punished by imprisonment for no more than a year or a fine not to exceed twenty five dinars (JD25) or by both penalties. 2. Whoever participated in a riot shall be punished by imprisonment for no more than a year or a fine not to exceed fifty dinars (JD50) or by both fines. Article (166) Whoever leaves the gathering before ordered to do so by the representatives of the authority or the security forces or obey such order immediately without using a weapon or committing a felony or a misdemeanor shall be exempted from the punishment stipulated in article (165). Article (167) 1. If people gathered according to the way described in article (164) they shall be warned to disperse by one of the administrative authority representatives or the police chief or the region’s commander or any police officer through using a horn or a whistle or any other similar mean or through the use of flair gun. 2. If they continued to crowd with the intent to riot after being notified to disperse using the means described in the pervious paragraph; or after being ordered to disperse; or if they used force to resist dispersion, then any of the offices mentioned in the previous paragraph in addition to the police and or any person who helps them, has the power to take any needed measures to disperse the crowd or to arrest anyone of them. If any of the gathered persons showed any resistance, then any of the officials previously mentioned has the right to use necessary force within the limits of logic to subdue them. Article (168) 1. If the assembled persons only dispersed by force, the penalty would be imprisonment from three months to two years. 2. Any person who used weapons shall be punished by imprisonment from six months to three years in addition to any stricter punishment he/she might deserve. TITLE THREE Of Crimes against Public Administration General Provisions Article (169)