Title 10, Health and Safety

Any person subject to this Code who, knowing that an offense punishable by this Code has been committed, receives, comforts, or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial, or punishment shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. SOURCE: UCMJ …

Any person subject to this Code who through neglect or design misses the movement of a ship, aircraft, or unit with which he is required in the course of duty to move shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. SOURCE: UCMJ Art. 87.

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Army, the Secretary of Air Force, the Governor or Legislature of Guam or any State, Territory, Commonwealth of the United States in…

Any person subject to this Code who behaves with disrespect toward his superior commissioned officer shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. SOURCE: UCMJ Art. 89.

Any person subject to this Code shall be punished as a court-martial may direct if that person: (a) strikes his superior commissioned officer or draws or lifts up any weapon or offers any violence against him while he is in the execution of his office; or (b) willfully disobeys a…

Any warrant officer or enlisted member shall be punished as a court-martial may direct if that person: (a) strikes or assaults a warrant or noncommissioned officer while that officer is in the execution of his office; (b) willfully disobeys the lawful order of a warrant officer o…

Any person subject to this Code shall be punished as a court-martial may direct if that person: (a) violates or fails to obey any lawful general order or regulation; (b) having knowledge of any other lawful order issued by a member of the Guam military forces, which it is his dut…

Any person subject to this Code who is guilty of cruelty toward, or oppression or maltreatment of, any person subject to his orders shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. SOURCE: UCMJ Art. 93.

(a) Any person subject to this Code is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition if that person: (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 …

Any person subject to this Code who resists apprehension or breaks arrest or who escapes from custody or confinement shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. SOURCE: UCMJ Art. 95.

Any person subject to this Code who, without proper authority, releases any prisoner committed to his charge, or who through neglect or design suffers any such prisoner to escape, shall be punished as a court- martial may direct, whether or not the prisoner was committed in stric…

An accused may be found guilty of an offense necessarily included in the offense charged or of an attempt to commit either the offense charged or an offense necessarily included therein. SOURCE: UCMJ Art. 79. 2026 NOTE: As reenacted by P.L. 23-012:1 (Apr. 28, 1995), the title of …

Any person subject to this Code who, except as provided by law, apprehends, arrests, or confines any person shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. SOURCE: UCMJ Art. 97.

Any person subject to this Code shall be punished as a court-martial may direct if that person: COL 2026-04-23 (a) is responsible for unnecessary delay in the disposition of any case of a person accused of an offense under this Code; or (b) knowingly and intentionally fails to en…

Any person subject to this Code shall be punished as a court-martial may direct if that person before or in the presence of the enemy, opposing forces or individuals: (a) runs away; (b) shamefully abandons, surrenders, or delivers up any command, unit, place, or military property…

Any person subject to this Code shall be punished as a court-martial may direct compels or attempts to compel the commander of any place, vessel, aircraft, or other military property, or of any body of members of the Guam military forces, to give it up to an enemy without proper …

Any person subject to the Code who in time of insurrection or civil disturbance 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…

Any person subject to this Code who forces a safeguard shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. SOURCE: UCMJ Art. 102.

(a) All persons subject to this Code shall secure all public property taken from the enemy or insurrectionist for the service of Guam and/or the United States, and shall give notice and turn over to the proper authority without delay all captured or abandoned property in their po…

Any person subject to this Code shall be punished as a court-martial may direct if that person: (a) aids, attempts to aid, the enemy or insurrectionist with arms, ammunition, supplies, money, or other things; or (b) without proper authority, knowingly harbors or protects or gives…

Any person subject to this Code shall be punished as a court-martial may direct if that person, while in the hands of the enemy or an insurgent in time of insurrection: (a) for the purpose of securing favorable treatment by his captors acts without proper authority in a manner co…

(a) An act, done with specific intent to commit an offense under this Code, amounting to more than mere preparation and tending, even though failing, to effect its commission, is an attempt to commit that offense. (b) Any person subject to this Code who attempts to commit any off…

Any person subject to this Code who, with intent to deceive, signs any false record, return, regulation, order, or other official document, knowing it to be false, or makes any other false official statement knowing it to be false, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.…

Wrongful Disposition. Any person subject to this Code shall be punished as a court-martial may direct if that person, without proper authority: (a) sells or otherwise disposes of; (b) willfully or through neglect damages, destroys, or loses; or (c) willfully or through neglect su…

Spoilage, or Destruction. Any person subject to this Code who willfully or recklessly wastes, spoils, or otherwise willfully and wrongfully destroys or damages any property other than military property of the United States and/or the Guam shall be punished as a court-martial may …

(a) Any person subject to this Code who willfully and wrongfully hazards or suffers to be hazard by any vessel of the Guam military forces and/or the Armed Forces of the United States shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. (b) Any person subject to this Code who neglige…

Any person subject to this Code other than a sentinel or look-out who is found drunk on duty, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. SOURCE: UCMJ Art. 112.

(a) Any person subject to this Code who wrongfully uses, possesses, manufactures, distributes, imports into Guam or the customs territory of the United States, or introduces into an installation, vessel, vehicle, or aircraft used by or under the control of the Armed Forces a subs…

Any sentinel or look-out who is found drunk or sleeping upon his post, or leaves it before he is regularly relieved, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. SOURCE: UCMJ Art. 113.

Any person subject to this Code who conspires with any other person to commit an offense under this Code shall, if one or more of the conspirators does an act to effect the object of the conspiracy, be punished as a court-martial may direct. SOURCE: UCMJ Art. 81.

Any person subject to this Code shall be punished as a court-martial may direct if that person, for the purpose of avoiding work, duty, or service: (a) feigns illness, physical disablement, mental lapse or derangement; or (b) intentionally inflicts self-injury. SOURCE: UCMJ Art. …

Any person subject to this Code who uses provoking or reproachful words or gestures toward any other person subject to this Code shall be punished as the court-martial may direct. SOURCE: UCMJ Art. 117.

Any person subject to this Code who wrongfully takes, obtains, or withholds, by any means, from the possession of the owner or of any other person any money, personal property, or article of value of any kind with intent temporarily to deprive or defraud another person of the use…

(a) Any person subject to this Code who solicits or advises another or others to desert in violation of § 63723.8 of this Code or mutiny in violation of § 63723.17 of this Code shall, if the offense solicited or advised is attempted or committed, be punished with the punishment p…

Any person subject to this Code shall, upon conviction, be punished as a court-martial may direct: (a) who, knowing it to be false or fraudulent, (1) makes any claim against the United States or officer thereof; (2) makes any claim against the Guam or officer thereof; (3) present…

Any commissioned officer or cadet who is convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. SOURCE: UCMJ Art. 133.

Any person who engages in the following shall be punished as a court-martial may direct: (a) procures his own enlistment or appointment in the Guam military forces by knowingly false representation or deliberate concealment as to his qualifications for the enlistment or appointme…

(a) Though not specifically mentioned in this Code, all violations of the criminal laws of Guam or the criminal laws of the federal government of the United States, of which persons subject to the Code may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special or summary c…

Inclusion of offenses within this Code does not preclude the prosecution of such criminal conduct under other Guam laws in the Superior Court of Guam unless prohibited by the United States Constitution; provided, however, that nothing in this Code shall be construed to give juris…

Any person subject to this Code who effects an enlistment or appointment in or separation from the Guam military forces of any person who is known to him to be ineligible for that enlistment, appointment, or separation because it is prohibited by law, regulation, or order shall b…

(a) Any member of the Guam military forces is guilty of desertion who: (1) without authority goes or remains absent from his unit; (2) quits his unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service; or (3) without being regularly …

Any member of the Guam military forces shall be punished as a court-martial may direct who, without authority: (a) fails to go to his appointed place of duty at the time prescribed; (b) goes from that place; or COL 2026-04-23 (c) absents himself or remains absent from his unit, o…

(a) Courts of inquiry to investigate any matter may be convened by any person authorized to convene a general court-martial or by any other person designated by the Adjutant General for that purpose, whether or not the persons involved have requested such inquiry. (b) A court of …

(a) The following persons on duty status with the Guam military forces may administer oaths for the purposes of military administration, including military justice, and have the general power of a notary public in the performance of all notarial acts to be executed by members of …

(a) Persons in the employ of Guam, not belonging to the Guam military forces, when traveling upon summons as witnesses before Guam Military Courts, Guam or defense, are entitled to the same reimbursements for costs as if testifying for any other Guam agency. (b) A person not in t…

(a) When charges against any person in the military forces of Guam are made or referred to a convening authority authorized to convene a court-martial for the trial of such person, and a convening authority, believing that such charges can be sustained, and has reason to believe …