§22-101.

§22-101.
   
   Where any number of persons, whether armed or not, are unlawfully or
   riotously assembled, the sheriff and his deputies, the officials
   governing the city or town, or the justices of the peace and marshals
   and constables and police thereof, or any of them, must go among the
   persons assembled, or as near to them as possible, and command them in
   the name of the state, immediately to disperse.