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[CITE: 10USC926]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 47--UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE
 
                     SUBCHAPTER X--PUNITIVE ARTICLES
 
Sec. 926. Art. 126. Arson

    (a) Any person subject to this chapter who willfully and maliciously 
burns or sets on fire an inhabited dwelling, or any other structure, 
movable or immovable, wherein to the knowledge of the offender there is 
at the time a human being, is guilty of aggravated arson and shall be 
punished as a court-martial may direct.
    (b) Any person subject to this chapter who willfully and maliciously 
burns or sets fire to the property of another, except as provided in 
subsection (a), is guilty of simple arson and shall be punished as a 
court-martial may direct.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 74.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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926(a)................................  50:720(a).                           Ma
y 5, 1950, ch. 169, Sec.  1 (Art.
926(b)................................  50:720(b).                            1
26), 64 Stat. 141.
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    In subsection (b), the words ``of this section'' are omitted as 
surplusage.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 929, 937 of this title.
