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10 U.S.C. § 894Art. 94. Mutiny or sedition

submitted 70 years ago by ch. 1041 to r/title-10-ARMED-FORCES · 175 words · no verdicts yet

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Mutiny, sedition, or failing to stop or report either is an offense under this chapter. A conviction for attempting or committing these offenses may result in death or another court-martial punishment.

(a) A person subject to this chapter commits mutiny by joining with another, intending to take over lawful military authority, and refusing orders, failing in duty, or creating violence or disturbance. The person commits sedition by joining with another, intending to overthrow or destroy lawful civil authority, and creating revolt, violence, or another disturbance against it. The person commits failure to suppress or report mutiny or sedition by not doing the utmost to prevent and suppress it when present, or by not taking all reasonable steps to tell a superior commissioned or commanding officer about it when the person knows or reasonably believes it is happening. (b) A person convicted of attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report it may be punished by death or another punishment a court-martial directs.
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(a)

Any person subject to this chapter who—

(1)

with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;

(2)

with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition;

(3)

fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which he knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.

(b)

A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.

Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 68.)

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  • 1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041

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