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[CITE: 10USC848]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 47--UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE
 
                     SUBCHAPTER VII--TRIAL PROCEDURE
 
Sec. 848. Art. 48. Contempts

    A court-martial, provost court, or military commission may punish 
for contempt any person who uses any menacing word, sign, or gesture in 
its presence, or who disturbs its proceedings by any riot or disorder. 
The punishment may not exceed confinement for 30 days or a fine of $100, 
or both.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 53.)

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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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848...................................  50:623.                              Ma
y 5, 1950, ch. 169, Sec.  1 (Art.
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8), 64 Stat. 123.
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    The word ``may'' is substituted for the word ``shall''.
