Oklahoma § 44-858A - Sentences - Reduction in enlisted grade
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§ 44-858A. Sentences - Reduction in enlisted grade
ARTICLE 58A. Sentences: reduction in enlisted grade.
A. A court-martial sentence of an enlisted member in a pay
grade above E-1, as set forth in the judgment of the court-martial
entered into the record under Section 860C of this title (Article
60C), that includes:
1. A dishonorable or bad-conduct discharge; or
2. Confinement,
reduces that member to pay grade E-1, if such a reduction is
authorized by regulation prescribed by the Governor or Adjutant
General. The reduction in pay grade shall take effect on the date
on which the judgment is so entered.
B. If the sentence of a member who is reduced in pay grade
under subsection A of this section is set aside or reduced, or, as
finally affirmed, does not include any punishment named in
paragraphs 1 or 2 of subsection A of this section, the rights and
privileges of which he or she was deprived because of that reduction
shall be restored to him or her and he or she is entitled to the pay
and allowances to which he or she would have been entitled, for the
period the reduction was in effect, had he or she not been so
reduced.
Added by Laws 2019, c. 408, § 68, eff. Oct. 1, 2019.
Source: official Oklahoma text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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