South Dakota § 33-10-262 - Mutiny--Sedition--Failure to suppress or report.
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§ 33-10-262. Mutiny--Sedition--Failure to suppress or report.
Any person subject to this code who:
(1) With intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do the person's duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;
(2) With intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition; or
(3) Fails to do the person's utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in the person's presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform the person's superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which the person knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
Source: SL 2012, ch 175, § 243.
Source: official South Dakota text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 33-10-262 ("Mutiny--Sedition--Failure to suppress or report.") is part of the South Dakota Codified Laws, the codified statutory law of South Dakota. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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