Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 38. MILITARY, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, AND VETERANS AFFAIRS · Chapter 2. MILITARY AFFAIRS · Article 5. CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE · Part 10. PUNITIVE PROVISIONS

38-2-1115. Malingering; feigning illness; self-infliction of injury.

Active

Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Any person subject to this article shall be punished as a court-martial may direct who for the purpose of avoiding work, duty, or service:
(1)
Feigns illness, physical disablement, mental lapse, or derangement; or#
(2)
Intentionally inflicts self-injury.#

Reading note: a word broken across two lines in the printed volume was joined by rule and could not be checked against the volume's own vocabulary. The official page linked below settles any doubt.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 38-2-1115, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 1/HB 98.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t37-t39-(v28)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V28, 2021 edition, page 515; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 4eed692485f5.