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[CITE: 10USC890]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 47--UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE
 
                     SUBCHAPTER X--PUNITIVE ARTICLES
 
Sec. 890. Art. 90. Assaulting or willfully disobeying superior 
        commissioned officer
        
    Any person subject to this chapter who--
        (1) strikes his superior commissioned officer or draws or lifts 
    up any weapon or offers any violence against him while he is in the 
    execution of his office; or
        (2) willfully disobeys a lawful command of his superior 
    commissioned officer;

shall be punished, if the offense is committed in time of war, by death 
or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct, and if the 
offense is committed at any other time, by such punishment, other than 
death, as a court-martial may direct.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 68.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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890...................................  50:684.                              Ma
y 5, 1950, ch. 169, Sec.  1 (Art.
                                                                              9
0), 64 Stat. 135.
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    The word ``commissioned'' is inserted for clarity.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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