§887b — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

Summary

It makes it a crime for someone under military law who is being held or restricted by an authorized person to escape or go past set limits. That includes: if you are put in custody and physically restrained and you break free before the person in charge lets you go; if you are under a non‑physical restraint and you go beyond its limits before you are released or relieved; and if you are ordered to stay inside certain limits and, knowing those limits, you go outside them before an authorized person ends the restriction. In every case the custody or restriction must be imposed by someone with authority and the person must leave before being officially released.

Title 10, §887b

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Any person subject to this chapter—

(1)who is placed in correctional custody by a person authorized to do so;

(2)who, while in correctional custody, is under physical restraint; and

(3)who escapes from the physical restraint before being released from the physical restraint by proper authority;

(b)Any person subject to this chapter—

(1)who is placed in correctional custody by a person authorized to do so;

(2)who, while in correctional custody, is under restraint other than physical restraint; and

(3)who goes beyond the limits of the restraint before being released from the correctional custody or relieved of the restraint by proper authority;

(c)Any person subject to this chapter—

(1)who is ordered to be restricted to certain limits by a person authorized to do so; and

(2)who, with knowledge of the limits of the restriction, goes beyond those limits before being released by proper authority;

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on Jan. 1, 2019, as designated by the President, with implementing

Regulations

and provisions relating to applicability to various situations, see section 5542 of Pub. L. 114–328 and Ex. Ord. No. 13825, set out as notes under section 801 of this title.

§887b Art. 87b. Offenses against correctional custody and restriction