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title: O.C.G.A. § 38-2-1094. Mutiny and sedition.
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# O.C.G.A. § 38-2-1094. Mutiny and sedition.

(a) Any person subject to this article 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 or her duty or creates any violence or disturbance shall be 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 shall be guilty of sedition; or

(3) Fails to do his or her utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his or her presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his or her superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which the person knows or has reason to believe is taking place, shall be 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 as a court-martial may direct.

## History

Code 1981, § 38-2-1094, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 1/HB 98.

## Cross References

Treason and other subversive activities, § 16-11-1 et seq. Statute of limitations, § 38-2-437.

## U.s. Code.

For similar provision in Uniform Code of Military Justice, see 10 U.S.C. § 894.