26-123. Maintenance of private troops
prohibited; violation; classification


A. No person, partnership or corporation shall maintain troops under arms, but this
section shall not be deemed to prohibit a business, plant or firm from maintaining armed
guards for protection of their property from damage or loss, or formation of a state
police or highway patrol, or the existence of county and municipal police forces and
sheriff's posses.


B. Any person violating this section is guilty of a class 5 felony.