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2016 Delaware Code
Title 20 - Military and Civil Defense
CHAPTER 1. DELAWARE NATIONAL GUARD
Subchapter IV Courts-Martial and Sentences
§ 155. Confinement.

Universal Citation:
20 DE Code § 155 (2016)
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(a) When not in federal service, a general or special court-martial may, instead of imposing a fine or forfeiture, sentence to confinement for 1 day for each unit training assembly.

(b) Any sentence to incarceration by a general or special court-martial shall not be executed until approved by the Adjutant General.

(c) Any sentence to incarceration by a general or special court-martial shall be required to be served only when the service member is on regular duty on annual training or has already been activated for state service under subchapter V of this chapter.

(d) The Department of Correction shall receive and confine all military offenders committed to its custody by order of court-martial approved by the Adjutant General.

Code 1915, § 310D; 33 Del. Laws, c. 46, § 1; Code 1935, § 277; 20 Del. C. 1953, § 155; 64 Del. Laws, c. 258, § 1; 72 Del. Laws, c. 106, § 14.;

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