§ 750.526Riots and unlawful assemblies; armed force in dispersing to execute order of

certain officials.
 Sec. 526.



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    Control of armed force—Whenever an armed force shall be called out in the manner
 provided by law for the purpose of suppressing any tumult or riot, or to disperse any body of
 men acting together by force, and with intent to commit any felony, or to offer violence to
 persons or property, or with intent, by force or violence, to resist or oppose the execution of
 the laws of this state, such armed force, when they shall arrive at the place of such unlawful,
 riotous or tumultuous assembly, shall obey such orders for suppressing the riot or tumult, and
 for dispersing and arresting all persons who are committing any of the said offenses, as they
 may have received from the governor, or from any judge of a court of record, or the sheriff of
 the county, any chief of police or his duly authorized representative, or any member of the
 Michigan state police, and also such further orders as they shall there receive from any 2 of the
 magistrates or officers mentioned in the first section of this chapter.