48-3024. Misbehavior before a hostile force. - Kansas Statutes

48-3024

Chapter 48.--MILITIA, DEFENSE AND PUBLIC SAFETY Article 30.--CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE; PUNITIVE SECTIONS

      48-3024.   Misbehavior before a hostile force.Any person subject to this code who before or in the presence of ahostile force:

      (1)   Runs away;

      (2)   shamefully abandons, surrenders, or delivers up any command, unit,place or military property which it is the person's duty to defend;

      (3)   through disobedience, neglect, or intentional misconduct endangersthe safety of any such command, unit, place, or military property;

      (4)   casts away his or her arms or ammunition;

      (5)   is guilty of cowardly conduct;

      (6)   quits his or her place of duty to plunder or pillage;

      (7)   causes false alarms in any command, unit, or place under control ofthe armed forces of the United States or the state military forces;

      (8)   willfully fails to do his or her utmost to encounter, engage, capture,or destroy any hostile force, combatants, vessels, aircraft, or any otherthing, which it is the person's duty so to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy;or

      (9)   does not afford all practicable relief and assistance to any troops,combatants, vessels, or aircraft of the armed forces belonging to theUnited States or their allies, to the state, or to any other state, whenengaged in battle; shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

      History:   L. 1972, ch. 203, § 48-3024; July 1.