Title 10, Public Safety And Internal Security

[§124B-143] Offenses against correctional custody and restriction. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who: (1) Is placed in correctional custody by a person authorized to do so; (2) While in correctional custody, is under physical restraint; and (3) Escapes from the physical …

[§124B-144] Contempt toward officials. Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President or Vice President of the United States, the United States Congress, the United States Secretary of Defense, the secretary of a military department, the United States …

[§124B-145] Disrespect toward superior commissioned officer; assault of superior commissioned officer. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who behaves with disrespect toward that person's superior commissioned officer shall be punished as directed by a court-martial. (b) Any p…

[§124B-146] Wilfully disobeying superior commissioned officer. Any person subject to this chapter who wilfully disobeys a lawful command of that person's superior commissioned officer shall be punished: (1) If the offense is committed in time of war, by confinement of no more tha…

[§124B-147] Insubordinate conduct toward warrant officer, noncommissioned officer, or petty officer. Any warrant officer or enlisted member who: (1) Strikes or assaults a warrant officer, noncommissioned officer, or petty officer, while that officer is in the execution of that of…

[§124B-148] Failure to obey order, regulation, or rule. Any person subject to this chapter who: (1) Violates or fails to obey any lawful general order, regulation, or rule; (2) Having knowledge of any other lawful order issued by a member of the state military forces, that it is …

[§124B-149] Cruelty and maltreatment. Any person subject to this chapter who is guilty of cruelty toward, or oppression or maltreatment of, any person subject to that person's orders shall be punished as directed by a court-martial. [L 2022, c 286, pt of §2]

[§124B-15] Place of confinement; reports and receiving of prisoners. (a) If a person subject to this chapter is confined before, during, or after trial, confinement shall be in a state correctional facility designated by the governor, or by a person authorized by the governor to …

[§124B-150] Prohibited activities with a military recruit or trainee by a person in a position of special trust. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who: (1) Is an officer, a noncommissioned officer, or a petty officer; (2) Is in a training leadership position with respect to …

[§124B-151] Mutiny or sedition. (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 that person's duty or creates any violence or disturbance shall be…

[§124B-152] Offenses by sentinel or lookout. (a) Any sentinel or lookout who is drunk on post, who sleeps on post, or who leaves post before being regularly relieved shall be punished: (1) If the offense is committed in time of war, by confinement of no more than ten years or oth…

[§124B-153] Disrespect toward sentinel or lookout. Any person subject to this chapter who, knowing that another person is a sentinel or lookout: (1) Uses wrongful and disrespectful language that is directed toward and within the hearing of the sentinel or lookout, who is in the e…

[§124B-154] Release of prisoner without authority; drinking with prisoner. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who: (1) Without authority to do so, releases a prisoner; or (2) Through neglect or designs, allows a prisoner to escape, shall be punished as directed by a court-mar…

[§124B-155] Unlawful detention. Any person subject to this chapter who, except as provided by law, apprehends, arrests, or confines any person shall be punished as directed by a court-martial. [L 2022, c 286, pt of §2]

[§124B-156] Misconduct as prisoner. Any person subject to this chapter who, while in the hands of the enemy in time of war: (1) For the purpose of securing favorable treatment by the person's captors acts without proper authority in a manner contrary to law, custom, regulation, o…

[§124B-157] Misbehavior before the enemy. Any member of the state military forces who before the presence of the enemy: (1) Runs away; (2) Shamefully abandons, surrenders, or delivers up any command, unit, place, or military property that it is that person's duty to defend; (3) T…

[§124B-158] Subordinate compelling surrender. Any person subject to this chapter who compels or attempts to compel the commander of any place, vessel, aircraft, or other military property, or of any body of members of the state military forces or the armed forces of the United St…

[§124B-159] Improper use of countersign. 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 c…

[§124B-16] Punishment prohibited before trial. Subject to section 124B-93, no person while being held for trial or awaiting a verdict shall be subjected to punishment or penalty other than arrest or confinement upon the charge pending against the person, nor shall the arrest or c…

[§124B-160] Forcing a safeguard. Any person subject to this chapter who forces a safeguard shall be punished as directed by a court-martial. [L 2022, c 286, pt of §2]

[§124B-161] Spies. Any person who in time of war is found lurking as a spy or acting as a spy in or about any place, vessel, or aircraft, within the control or jurisdiction of the state military forces or of the United States armed forces, or in or about any shipyard, any manufac…

[§124B-162] Espionage. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the State or the United States, or to another state, commonwealth, or territory of the United States, or to the advantage of a foreign nation…

[§124B-163] Aiding the enemy. Any person who: (1) Aids, or attempts to aid, the enemy with arms, ammunition, supplies, money, or other things; or (2) Without proper authority, knowingly harbors or protects, gives intelligence to, communicates or corresponds with, or holds any int…

[§124B-164] Public record offenses. Any person subject to this chapter who, wilfully and unlawfully: (1) Alters, conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys a public record; or (2) Takes a public record with the intent to alter, conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate, o…

[§124B-165] Fraudulent enlistment, appointment, or separation. Any person who: (1) Procures for that person's own enlistment or appointment in the state military forces by knowingly false representation or deliberate concealment as to that person's qualifications for that enlistm…

[§124B-166] Unlawful enlistment, appointment, or separation. Any person subject to this chapter who effects an enlistment or appointment in or a separation from the state military forces of any person who is known to that person to be ineligible for that enlistment, appointment, …

[§124B-167] Forgery. Any person subject to this chapter who, with intent to defraud: (1) Falsely makes or alters any signature to, or any part of, any writing that would, if genuine, impose a legal liability on another or change the person's legal right or liability to the person…

[§124B-168] False or unauthorized pass offenses. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who, wrongfully and falsely, makes, alters, counterfeits, or tampers with a military or official pass, permit, discharge certificate, or identification card shall be punished as directed by a …

[§124B-169] Impersonation of officer, noncommissioned or petty officer, or agent or official. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who, wrongfully and wilfully, impersonates: (1) An officer, a noncommissioned officer, or a petty officer; (2) An agent of superior authority of on…

[§124B-17] Delivery of alleged offenders to civil authorities. (a) A person subject to this chapter accused of an offense against civil authority may be delivered upon request to the civil authority for trial or confinement. (b) When delivery under this section is made to any civ…

[§124B-170] Wearing unauthorized insignia, decoration, badge, ribbon, device, or lapel button. Any person subject to this chapter who: (1) Is not authorized to wear an insignia, decoration, badge, ribbon, device, or lapel button; and (2) Wrongfully wears any insignia, decoration,…

§124B-171 False official statements; false swearing. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who, with intent to deceive: (1) Signs any false record, return, regulation, order, or other official document, knowing it to be false; or (2) Makes any other false official statement know…

[§124B-172] Military property; loss, damage, destruction, or wrongful disposition. Any person subject to this chapter who, without proper authority: (1) Sells or otherwise disposes of; (2) Wilfully or through neglect damages, destroys, or loses; or (3) Wilfully or through neglect…

[§124B-173] Captured or abandoned property. (a) All persons subject to this chapter shall secure all public property taken from the enemy for the service of the United States or the State and shall give notice and turn over to the proper authority without delay all captured or ab…

[§124B-174] Property other than military property; waste, spoilage, or destruction. Any person subject to this chapter who wilfully or recklessly wastes, spoils, or otherwise wilfully and wrongfully destroys or damages any property other than military property of the United State…

[§124B-175] Mail matter; wrongful taking; opening. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who, with the intent to obstruct the correspondence of, or to pry into the business or secrets of, any person or organization, wrongfully takes mail matter before the mail matter is delivere…

[§124B-176] Improper hazarding of vessel or aircraft. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who, wilfully and wrongfully, hazards or suffers to be hazarded any vessel or aircraft of the armed forces of the United States or any state military force shall be punished as directed b…

[§124B-177] Drunkenness and other incapacitation offenses. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who is drunk on duty shall be punished as directed by a court-martial. (b) Any person subject to this chapter who, as a result of indulgence in any alcoholic beverage or any drug, is…

[§124B-178] Wrongful use, possession, etc., of controlled substances. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who wrongfully uses, possesses, manufactures, distributes, imports into the customs territory of the United States, exports from the United States, or introduces into an i…

[§124B-179] Drunken or reckless operation of a vehicle, aircraft, or vessel. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who: (1) Operates or physically controls a vehicle, aircraft, or vessel in a reckless or wanton manner or while impaired by a substance described in section 124B-17…

[§124B-180] Endangerment offenses. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who engages in conduct that: (1) Is wrongful and reckless or is wanton; and (2) Is likely to produce death or grievous bodily harm to another person, shall be punished as directed by a court-martial. (b) An…

[§124B-181] Communicating threats. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who wrongfully communicates a threat to injure the person, property, or reputation of another shall be punished as directed by a court-martial. (b) Any person subject to this chapter who wrongfully communic…

[§124B-182] Riot or breach of peace. Any person subject to this chapter who causes or participates in any riot or breach of the peace shall be punished as directed by a court-martial. [L 2022, c 286, pt of §2]

[§124B-183] Provoking speeches or gestures. Any person subject to this chapter who uses provoking or reproachful words or gestures towards any other person subject to this chapter shall be punished as directed by a court-martial. [L 2022, c 286, pt of §2]

[§124B-184] Offenses concerning government computers. (a) Any person subject to this chapter who: (1) Knowingly accesses a government computer, with an unauthorized purpose, and by doing so obtains classified information, with reason to believe the information could be used to th…

[§124B-185] Fraud against the government. Any person subject to this chapter: (1) Who, knowing it to be false or fraudulent: (A) Makes any claim against the United States, the State, or any officer thereof; or (B) Presents to any person in the civil or military service thereof, f…