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title: O.C.G.A. § 38-2-1113. Drunk or sleeping while standing post.
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# O.C.G.A. § 38-2-1113. Drunk or sleeping while standing post.

Any sentinel or lookout who is found under the influence of alcohol sufficient to impair the rational and full exercise of his or her mental or physical faculties or sleeping upon his or her post or leaves it before being regularly relieved shall be punished, if the offense is committed in time of war, by confinement of not more than ten years or other punishment as a court-martial may direct, but if the offense is committed at any time other than in time of war, by such punishment as a court-martial may direct.

## History

Code 1981, § 38-2-1113, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 1/HB 98.

## U.s. Code.

For similar provision in Uniform Code of Military Justice, see 10 U.S.C. § 914.