Title 33, Military Affairs

Any commissioned officer subject to this code who uses contemptuous words against the Governor of Mississippi shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Any person subject to this code who behaves with disrespect toward his superior commissioned officer shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

(a) Any person subject to this code who:(a) Strikes his superior commissioned officer or draws or lifts up any weapon or offers any violence against him while that officer is in the execution of his office; or(b) Willfully disobeys a lawful command of his commissioned officer; sh…

(a) Any person subject to this code who:(a) Strikes or assaults a warrant officer or noncommissioned officer while that officer is in the execution of his office; or(b) Willfully disobeys the lawful order of a warrant officer or noncommissioned officer; or(c) Treats with contempt…

(1) Any person subject to this code who:(1) violates or fails to obey any lawful general order or regulation;(2) having knowledge of any other lawful order issued by a member of the state military forces which it is his duty to obey, fails to obey the order; or(3) is derelict in …

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.

(a) Any person subject to this code who:(1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority refuses, in concert with any other person, or persons, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;(2) with intent to caus…

Any person subject to this code who resists apprehension or breaks arrest or who escapes from physical restraint lawfully imposed shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

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 strict…

Any person subject to this code who, except as provided by law or regulation, apprehends, arrests, or confines any person shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

(a) Any person subject to this code who:(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 enforce or comply with any provision of this code regulating the proceedin…

(a) Any person subject to this code who before or in the presence of the enemy:(a) Runs away;(b) Shamefully abandons, surrenders or delivers up any command, unit, place or military property which it is his duty to defend;(c) Through disobedience, neglect or intentional misconduct…

Any person subject to this code 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 of this state, or of any other state, to give it up to an enemy or to abandon it, or w…

Any person subject to this code 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 knowledg…

Any person subject to this code who forces a safeguard shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

(1) All persons subject to this code shall secure all public property taken from the enemy for the service of the State of Mississippi or the United States, and shall give notice and turn over to the proper authority without delay all captured or abandoned property in their posse…

(1) Any person subject to this code 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 or gives intelligence to, or communicates or corresponds with or holds any interc…

(1) Any person subject to this code who, while in the hands of the enemy in time of war:(1) for the purpose of securing favorable treatment by his captors acts without proper authority in a manner contrary to law, custom, or regulation, to the detriment of others of whatever nati…

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.

(1) Any person subject to this code 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 suffers to be lost, damaged, destroyed, sold, or wrongfully disposed of, any militar…

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 or of this state shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

(a) Any person subject to this code who wilfully and wrongfully hazards or suffers to be hazarded any vessel of the Armed Forces of the United States or of the state military forces shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. (b) Any person subject to this code who negligent…

Any person subject to this code who is found under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any controlled substance listed in the Uniform Controlled Substances Law while on duty or sleeping upon his post, or who leaves his post before he is regularly relieved, shall be punished a…

(1) Any person subject to this code who uses, while on duty, any controlled substance listed in the Uniform Controlled Substances Law, not legally prescribed, or is found, by a chemical analysis of such person’s blood or urine, to have in his blood, while on duty, any controlled …

(a) Any person subject to this code who for the purpose of avoiding work, duty or service in the state military forces:(a) Feigns illness, physical disablement, mental lapse or derangement; or(b) Intentionally inflicts self-injury; shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.…

Any person subject to this code who causes or participates in any riot or breach of the peace shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Any person subject to this code who uses provoking or reproachful words or gestures towards any other person subject to this code shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Any commissioned officer, officer candidate or warrant officer who is convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Though not specifically mentioned in this code, all disorders and neglect to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the state military forces and/or all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the state military forces, of which persons subject to this code may be guil…

(1) Courts of inquiry to investigate any matter may be convened by the Governor or by any other person designated by the Governor for that purpose, or any person authorized to convene a general court-martial by this code, whether or not the persons involved have requested such an…

(1) The following members of the state military forces may administer oaths for the purpose of legal assistance and military administration, including military justice, and they have the general powers of a notary public in the performance of all notarial acts to be executed by m…

(1) Any member of the state military forces who believes himself wronged by his commanding officer and who, upon due application to that commanding officer, is refused redress, may complain to any superior commissioned officer, who shall examine into the complaint and take proper…

(1) Whenever complaint is made to any commanding officer that willful damage has been done to the property of any person or that his property has been wrongfully taken by members of the state military forces, he may, subject to such regulations as the Governor may prescribe, conv…

No accused may bring an action or proceeding seeking damages against the convening authority, a member of a military court or board convened under this code, any military counsel taking part in such court or board action or appeal, or, any person acting under this code’s authorit…

The Governor may delegate any authority vested in him under this code, and may provide for the subdelegation of any such authority.

(1) In the state military forces not in federal service, the processes and sentences of its courts-martial shall be executed by the civil officers prescribed by the laws of the state. (2) When the sentence of a court-martial, as approved and ordered executed, adjudges confinement…

(1) Military courts may issue any process or mandate necessary to carry into effect their powers. Such a court may issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum and enforce by attachment attendance of witnesses and production of books and records, when it is sitting within the state …

(1) All fines and costs imposed by general court-martial shall be paid to the officer ordering such court, and/or to the officer commanding for the time being, and by said officer, within five (5) days from the receipt thereof, paid to the Adjutant General, who shall disburse the…

The jurisdiction of the military courts and boards established by this code shall be presumed and the burden of proof rests on any person seeking to oust those courts or boards of jurisdiction in any action or proceeding.

Persons subpoenaed or required to appear as witnesses before military courts shall be entitled to compensation and reimbursement for travel expenses to the same extent permitted such witnesses appearing in criminal proceedings before the circuit courts of this state.

(1) When charges against any person in the military service of this state 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 b…

The Adjutant General shall have authority to pay all expenses incurred in the administration of state military justice, including the expenses of courts-martial and expenses incurred under Sections 33-13-327, 33-13-417, 33-13-605 and 33-13-621, from any funds appropriated to the …

This chapter may be cited as the “Mississippi Code of Military Justice.”

This article may be cited as the “Mississippi Emergency Management Law.”

(a) The Governor shall have general direction and control of the activities of the Emergency Management Agency and Council and shall be responsible for the carrying out of the provisions of this article, and in the event of a man-made, technological or natural disaster or emergen…

(a) In the event of actual or impending enemy attack, as determined by the President, against the United States and the State of Mississippi, the Governor may proclaim that a state of war emergency exists, and thereafter the Governor shall have and may exercise for such period as…