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192A.475 MUTINY OR SEDITION.
Subdivision 1. Crimes defined. Any person subject to this code who:
(1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority refuses, in concert with any
other person, to obey orders or otherwise do that person's 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 the utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in
that person's presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform a superior commissioned
officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which that person knows or has reason to
believe is taking place is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
Subd. 2. Punishment. A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition, or
failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
History: 1963 c 661 s 192A.475; 1986 c 444
Subdivision 1. Crimes defined. Any person subject to this code who:
(1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority refuses, in concert with any
other person, to obey orders or otherwise do that person's 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 the utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in
that person's presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform a superior commissioned
officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which that person knows or has reason to
believe is taking place is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
Subd. 2. Punishment. A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition, or
failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
History: 1963 c 661 s 192A.475; 1986 c 444
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