Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110
§904 Art. 104. Public Records Offenses
Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART II — PERSONNEL › CHAPTER 47 — UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE › SUBCHAPTER X — PUNITIVE ARTICLES › § 904
Summary
Makes it a crime for anyone covered by this chapter to intentionally and illegally change, hide, remove, damage, or destroy a public record, or to take a public record intending to do any of those things. Such a person can be punished by a court-martial, which will decide the penalty.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §904
Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
Any person subject to this chapter who, willfully 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, or destroy the public record;
shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 904 was renumbered section 903b of this title.
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.
Reference
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 904
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110