(A) Where five or more persons are participating in a course of disorderly conduct in violation of Ohio R.C. 2917.11 or a substantially equivalent municipal ordinance, and there are other persons in the vicinity whose presence creates the likelihood of physical harm to persons or property or of serious public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm, a law enforcement officer or other public official may order the participants and the other persons to disperse. No person shall knowingly fail to obey the order.
(B) Nothing in this section requires persons to disperse who are peaceably assembled for a lawful purpose.
(C) Whoever violates this section is guilty of failure to disperse, a first degree misdemeanor. The penalty shall be as provided in § 202.99.
(ORC 2917.04)