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[CITE: 10USC894]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 47--UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE
 
                     SUBCHAPTER X--PUNITIVE ARTICLES
 
Sec. 894. Art. 94. Mutiny or sedition

    (a) Any person subject to this chapter who--
        (1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, 
    refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or 
    otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is 
    guilty of mutiny;
        (2) with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful 
    civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, 
    violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of 
    sedition;
        (3) fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or 
    sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all 
    reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or 
    commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which he knows or has 
    reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to 
    suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.

    (b) A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny, 
sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be 
punished by death or such other punishment 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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894(a)................................  50:688(a).                           Ma
y 5, 1950, ch. 169, Sec.  1 (Art.
894(b)................................  50:688(b).                            9
4), 64 Stat. 136.
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    In subsection (a)(1) and (2), the words ``or persons'' are omitted, 
since, under section 1 of title 1, words importing the singular may 
apply to several persons.
    In subsection (a)(3), the word ``a'' is substituted for the words 
``an offense of''. The words ``commissioned officer'' are inserted after 
the word ``superior'', for clarity.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 882, 937 of this title; 
title 38 section 6105.
