The Florida Senate

250.29  Duty of officer receiving order to aid civil authority; penalty for failure to comply.--Any officer receiving such orders shall immediately notify the officers and enlisted personnel under his or her command, and as soon as the officer's troops can be assembled, proceed to the place where such mob or body of riotous persons assembled to break the law may be, and the officer or the sheriff of the county or other peace officer accompanying the officer, shall warn all such persons to desist and disperse, and use such force as may be necessary to restore peace and overcome resistance. Any officer failing to comply with the provisions of this section and any officer or enlisted person so notified by his or her commanding officer, who shall fail to obey such order, unless prevented by physical disability, commits a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083, and may also be dismissed or dishonorably discharged by sentence of court-martial.

History.--s. 33, ch. 8502, 1921; CGL 2045, 8124; s. 1, ch. 25112, 1949; s. 145, ch. 71-136; s. 6, ch. 91-139; s. 106, ch. 95-148.

Note.--Former s. 250.39.