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Section 5924.01 | Code of Military Justice Definitions.

Effective: January 24, 2020 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 52 – 133rd General Assembly As used in Chapter 5924. of the Revised Code unless the context otherwise requires: (A) “Organized militia” means the Ohio national guard, the Ohio naval militia, the Ohio military reserve, and the Ohio cyber reserve. (B) “Officer” means commissioned or warrant officer. […]

Section 5924.02 | Persons Subject to Code.

Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 129th General Assembly The following persons who are not in federal service are subject to this code: (A) Members of the organized militia, including Ohio national guard dual-status technicians during their normal duty hours; (B) Persons who have been placed on the state retired list […]

Section 5924.03 | Jurisdiction to Court-Martial Discharged Personnel.

Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 129th General Assembly (A) Each person discharged from the organized militia who is later charged with having fraudulently obtained the discharge is, subject to section 5924.43 of the Revised Code, subject to trial by court-martial on that charge and is, after apprehension, subject to this […]

Section 5924.05 | Territorial Applicability.

Effective: October 10, 1961 Latest Legislation: House Bill 154 – 104th General Assembly (A) This code applies throughout the state. It also applies to all persons otherwise subject to this code while they are serving outside the state, and while they are going to and returning from such service outside the state, in the same […]

Section 5924.07 | Apprehension.

Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 129th General Assembly (A) Apprehension is the taking of a person into custody. (B) Any person authorized by this code, or by regulations issued pursuant to this code, to apprehend persons subject to this code, any marshal of a court-martial appointed pursuant to the provisions […]

Section 5924.08 | Authority to Apprehend Deserters.

Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 129th General Assembly A peace officer having authority to apprehend offenders under the laws of the United States, or of a state, territory, commonwealth, or possession, or the District of Columbia may summarily apprehend a deserter from the organized militia and deliver the deserter into […]

Section 5924.09 | Arrest or Confinement.

Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 129th General Assembly (A) Arrest is the restraint of a person by an oral or written order, not imposed as a punishment for an offense, directing the person to remain within certain specified limits. Confinement is the physical restraint of a person that is imposed […]

Section 5924.10 | Confinement.

Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 129th General Assembly (A) Any person subject to this code charged with an offense under this code shall be ordered into arrest or confinement, as circumstances may require; but when charged only with an offense normally tried by a summary court-martial, such person shall not […]

Section 5924.103 | Captured or Abandoned Property.

Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 129th General Assembly (A) All persons subject to this code shall secure all property taken from the enemy for the service of the United States and this state and shall give notice and turn over to the proper authority without delay all captured or abandoned […]

Section 5924.107 | False Official Statements.

Effective: October 10, 1961 Latest Legislation: House Bill 154 – 104th General Assembly Any person subject to this code who, with intent to deceive, signs any false record, return, regulation, order, or other official document, knowing it to be false, or makes any other false official statement knowing it to be false, shall be punished […]

Section 5924.109 | Waste or Destruction of Nonmilitary Property.

Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 129th General Assembly Any person subject to this code who willfully or recklessly wastes, spoils, or otherwise willfully and wrongfully destroys or damages any property other than military property of the United States or of the state shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Section 5924.11 | Prisoners.

Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 129th General Assembly (A) No sheriff, keeper, or officer of a detention facility may refuse to receive or keep any prisoner committed to the sheriff’s, keeper’s, or officer’s charge when the committing person furnishes a statement, signed by the committing person, of the offense charged […]

Section 5924.111 | Impaired or Reckless Operation of Vehicles, Aircraft or Vessels.

Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 129th General Assembly (A) Subject to division (B) of this section, any person subject to this code who does any of the following shall be punished as a court-martial may direct: (1) Operates or physically controls any vehicle, aircraft, or vessel in a reckless or […]

Section 5924.112 | Drunk on Duty.

Effective: October 10, 1961 Latest Legislation: House Bill 154 – 104th General Assembly Any person subject to this code, other than a sentinel or lookout, who is found drunk on duty shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Section 5924.1121 | Wrongful Use, Possession, etc., of Controlled Substances.

Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, “prohibited substance” means any of the following: (1) Opium, heroin, cocaine, amphetamine, lysergic acid diethylamide, methamphetamine, phencyclidine, barbituric acid, or marihuana or any compound or derivative of any of those substances; (2) Any substance not specified […]

Section 5924.113 | Misbehavior of Sentinel.

Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 129th General Assembly Any sentinel or lookout who is found drunk or sleeping on the sentinel’s or lookout’s post, or leaves it before the sentinel or lookout is regularly relieved, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Section 5924.115 | Malingering.

Effective: September 28, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 490 – 129th General Assembly Any person subject to this code who for the purpose of avoiding work, duty, or service in the organized militia does either of the following shall be punished as a court-martial may direct: (A) Feigns illness, physical disablement, mental lapse, or derangement; […]

Section 5924.116 | Riot – Breach of Peace.

Effective: October 10, 1961 Latest Legislation: House Bill 154 – 104th General Assembly Any person subject to this code who causes or participates in any riot or breach of the peace shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.