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[CITE: 10USC820]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 47--UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER IV--COURT-MARTIAL JURISDICTION
 
Sec. 820. Art. 20. Jurisdiction of summary courts-martial

    Subject to section 817 of this title (article 17), summary courts-
martial have jurisdiction to try persons subject to this chapter, except 
officers, cadets, aviation cadets, and midshipmen, for any noncapital 
offense made punishable by this chapter. No person with respect to whom 
summary courts-martial have jurisdiction may be brought to trial before 
a summary court-martial if he objects thereto. If objection to trial by 
summary court-martial is made by an accused, trial may be ordered by 
special or general court-martial as may be appropriate. Summary courts-
martial may, under such limitations as the President may prescribe, 
adjudge any punishment not forbidden by this chapter except death, 
dismissal, dishonorable or bad-conduct discharge, confinement for more 
than one month, hard-labor without confinement for more than 45 days, 
restriction to specified limits for more than two months, or forfeiture 
of more than two-thirds of one month's pay.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 43; Pub. L. 90-632, Sec. 2(6), Oct. 
24, 1968, 82 Stat. 1336.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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820...................................  50:580.                              Ma
y 5, 1950, ch. 169, Sec.  1 (Art.
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0), 64 Stat. 114.
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    The word ``shall'' in the first sentence is omitted as surplusage. 
The word ``may'' is substituted for the word ``shall'' in the second 
sentence. The words ``the provisions of'' are omitted as surplusage. The 
word ``If'' is substituted for the word ``Where''. The words ``for more 
than'' are substituted for the words ``in excess of''. The words ``more 
than'' are substituted for the words ``pay in excess of''.


                               Amendments

    1968--Pub. L. 90-632 substituted provisions prohibiting trial by 
summary court-martial in all cases if the person objects thereto for 
provisions allowing such trial over the person's objection if he has 
previously been offered and has refused article 15 punishment.


                    Effective Date of 1968 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 90-632 effective first day of tenth month 
following October 1968, see section 4 of Pub. L. 90-632, set out as a 
note under section 801 of this title.
