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

Summary

It makes it illegal for anyone covered by this law who has been placed in correctional custody by an authorized person to escape or leave where they are supposed to be. That includes escaping from physical restraints before an authorized person frees them, going past the limits of a non‑physical restraint before being released or relieved by an authorized person, or knowingly going beyond set limits when they were ordered to stay inside them before an authorized person releases them.

Title 10, §887b

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(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