10 U.S.C. § 901 — Art. 101. Improper use of countersign
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This section punishes improper disclosure or substitution of a parole or countersign during wartime. The punishment may be death or another punishment ordered by a court-martial.
A person subject to this chapter who, during wartime, gives the parole or countersign to someone not entitled to receive it, or gives an entitled person a different parole or countersign from the one the giver knew they were authorized and required to give, shall be punished by death or by another punishment that a court-martial directs.
Any person subject to this chapter who in time of war discloses the parole or countersign to any person not entitled to receive it or who gives to another who is entitled to receive and use the parole or countersign a different parole or countersign from that which, to his knowledge, he was authorized and required to give, shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.
Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 70.)
- 1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041
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