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10 U.S.C. § 908a — Art. 108a. Captured or abandoned property

submitted 70 years ago by ch. 1041 to r/title-10-ARMED-FORCES · 118 words · no verdicts yet

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This article requires people subject to the chapter to secure and promptly turn over captured or abandoned public property. It punishes failing to do so, profiting from such property, or looting.

(a) People subject to this chapter must secure public property taken from an enemy for United States service. They must promptly notify the proper authority and turn over captured or abandoned property in their possession, custody, or control. (b) A person subject to this chapter who (1) fails to perform those duties; (2) buys, sells, trades, handles, or disposes of captured or abandoned property to obtain or expect a direct or indirect profit, benefit, or advantage for self or another connected to self; or (3) loots or pillages, must be punished as a court-martial directs.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain
(a)

All persons subject to this chapter shall secure all public property taken from the enemy for the service of the United States, and shall give notice and turn over to the proper authority without delay all captured or abandoned property in their possession, custody, or control.

(b)

Any person subject to this chapter who—

(1)

fails to carry out the duties prescribed in subsection (a);

(2)

buys, sells, trades, or in any way deals in or disposes of captured or abandoned property, whereby he receives or expects any profit, benefit, or advantage to himself or another directly or indirectly connected with himself; or

(3)

engages in looting or pillaging;

shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 70, § 903; renumbered § 908a, Pub. L. 114–328, div. E, title LX, § 5401(4), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2938.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041
  • 2016Amended · Pub. L. 114-328 · 130 Stat. 2938

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 1041 on 1956-08-10.

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