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[CITE: 10USC807]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 47--UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--APPREHENSION AND RESTRAINT
 
Sec. 807. Art. 7. Apprehension

    (a) Apprehension is the taking of a person into custody.
    (b) Any person authorized under regulations governing the armed 
forces to apprehend persons subject to this chapter or to trial 
thereunder may do so upon reasonable belief that an offense has been 
committed and that the person apprehended committed it.
    (c) Commissioned officers, warrant officers, petty officers, and 
noncommissioned officers have authority to quell quarrels, frays, and 
disorders among persons subject to this chapter and to apprehend persons 
subject to this chapter who take part therein.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 39.)

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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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807(a)................................  50:561(a).                           Ma
y 5, 1950, ch. 169, Sec.  1 (Art.
807(b)................................  50:561(b).                            7
), 64 Stat. 111.
807(c)................................  50:561(c).
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    In subsection (a), the words ``into custody'' and ``of a person'' 
are transposed.
    In subsection (c), the words ``All'' and ``shall'' are omitted as 
surplusage. The word ``Commissioned'' is inserted before the word 
``officers'' for clarity. The word ``therein'' is substituted for the 
words ``in the same''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 937 of this title.
