2010 Georgia Code
TITLE 38 - MILITARY, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, AND VETERANS AFFAIRS
CHAPTER 2 - MILITARY AFFAIRS
ARTICLE 5 - CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE
PART 10 - PUNITIVE PROVISIONS
§ 38-2-527 - Mutiny or sedition

O.C.G.A. 38-2-527 (2010)
38-2-527. Mutiny or 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 or persons, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance commits the offense of mutiny;

(2) With intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person or persons, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against such authority commits the offense of sedition;

(3) Fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress an offense of mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior or commanding officer of an offense of mutiny or sedition which he knows or has reason to believe is taking place, commits the offense of 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.