Title 51, MILITARY AFFAIRS

Any person subject to this part who conspires with any other person to commit an offense under this part 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.

(a) Desertion and mutiny.--Any person subject to this part who solicits or advises another or others to desert in violation of section 6009 (relating to desertion) or mutiny in violation of section 6018 (relating to mutiny or sedition) shall, if the offense solicited or advised i…

Any person who: (1) procures his own enlistment or appointment in the State military forces by knowingly false representation or deliberate concealment as to his qualifications for that enlistment or appointment and receives pay or allowances thereunder; or (2) procures his own s…

Any person subject to this part who effects an enlistment or appointment in or a separation from the State 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 …

(a) Offense defined.--Any member of the State military forces who: (1) without authority goes or remains absent from his unit, organization or place of duty with intent to remain away from there permanently; (2) quits his unit, organization or place of duty with intent to avoid h…

(a) Offense defined.--Any person subject to this part who, without authority: (1) fails to go to his appointed place of duty at the time prescribed; (2) goes from that place; or (3) absents himself or remains absent from his unit, organization or place of duty at which he is requ…

Any person subject to this part 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.

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President of the United States, Vice President of the United States, Congress, Secretary of Defense, secretary of a military department, Secretary of Homeland Security, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, …

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

Any person subject to this part who: (1) strikes, draws or lifts up any weapon or offers any violence against his superior commissioned officer while he is in the execution of his office; or (2) willfully disobeys a lawful command of his superior commissioned officer; shall be pu…

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 his office; (2) willfully disobeys the lawful order of a warrant officer, noncommissioned officer or petty off…

Any person subject to this part 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 part 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) Offense defined.--Any person subject to this part who: (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 violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny; (2) with intent…

Any person subject to this part who resists apprehension, flees from apprehension, breaks arrest or escapes from custody or confinement shall be punished as a court-marital may direct.

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

Any person subject to this part who: (1) is responsible for unnecessary delay in the disposition of any case of a person accused of an offense under this part; or (2) knowingly and intentionally fails to enforce or comply with any provision of this part regulating the proceedings…

Any person subject to this part who, before or in the presence of the enemy: (1) runs away; (2) shamefully abandons, surrenders or delivers up any command, unit, place or military property which it is his duty to defend; (3) through disobedience, neglect or intentional misconduct…

Any person subject to this part who compels or attempts to compel a commander of any place, vessel, aircraft or other military property, or of any body of members of the armed forces, to give it up to an enemy or to abandon it or who strikes the colors or flag to an enemy without…

Any person subject to this part who, in time of war or national emergency, 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…

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

(a) Duty to secure property.--All persons subject to this part shall secure all public property taken for the service of the United States or the Commonwealth and shall give notice and turn over to the proper authority without delay all captured or abandoned property in their pos…

Any person subject to this part 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 intercourse …

Any person subject to this part 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 nationa…

Any person subject to this part who, with intent to deceive, signs any false record, return, regulation, order or other official document made in the line of duty knowing the same to be false or makes any other false official statement made in the line of duty knowing the same to…

Any person subject to this part who, without proper authority: (1) sells or otherwise disposes of; (2) willfully or through neglect damages, destroys or loses; or (3) willfully or through neglect suffers to be lost, damaged, destroyed, sold or wrongfully disposed of; any military…

Any person subject to this part who willfully or recklessly wastes, spoils or otherwise willfully and wrongfully destroys or damages any property other than military property belonging to the United States, the Commonwealth or any other state shall be punished as a court-martial …

(a) Willful conduct.--Any person subject to this part who willfully and wrongfully hazards or suffers to be hazarded any vessel of the armed forces of the United States or the State military forces shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. (b) Negligent conduct.--Any perso…

Any person subject to this part who, while in a duty status or while on a military installation, operates any vehicle while drunk or in a reckless or wanton manner shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

(a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), any person subject to this part who is found drunk on duty, sleeping on his post or who leaves his post before being relieved shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. (b) Sentinel or look-out.--Any sentinel or look-…

Any person subject to this part who fights, promotes, is concerned in or connives at fighting a duel or who, having knowledge of a challenge sent or about to be sent, fails to report the fact promptly to the proper authority shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Any person subject to this part who, for the purpose of avoiding work, duty or service in the State military forces: (1) feigns illness, physical disablement, mental lapse or derangement; or (2) intentionally inflicts self-injury; shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.…

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

Any person subject to this part who, in a judicial proceeding, in a course of justice conducted under this part or in any administrative proceeding conducted by the State military forces under military regulations, willfully and corruptly gives, upon a lawful oath or in any form …

Any person subject to this part: (1) who, knowing it to be false or fraudulent: (i) makes any claim against the United States, the Commonwealth or any officer thereof; or (ii) presents to any person in the civil or military service thereof for approval or payment any claim agains…

(a) Offenses defined.--Any person subject to this part who, while in a duty status, wrongfully takes, obtains or withholds by any means whatever from the possession of the true owner or of any other person any money, personal property or article of value of any kind: (1) with int…

Any person subject to this part who, while in a duty status, attempts or offers with unlawful force or violence to do bodily harm to another person, whether or not the attempt or offer is consummated, is guilty of assault and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

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

Though not specifically described in this part, a person subject to this title who engages in any disorder and neglect to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the State military forces or who engages in any conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the State military f…

Any person subject to this part who shall, while in a duty status, embezzle, misapply or convert to his own use, without authority, any moneys received by or entrusted to him for disbursement or articles of military equipment shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Any person subject to this part who knowingly and willfully sells, purchases or receives in pawn or pledge any military property of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or of the United States in use by the Commonwealth shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

(a) General rule.--Any person subject to this title who wrongfully uses, possesses, manufactures, distributes, imports into the customs territory of the United States, exports from the United States or introduces into an installation, vessel, vehicle or aircraft used by or under …