Texas § GV.432.139 - MUTINY, SEDITION, FAILURE TO SUPPRESS MUTINY OR SEDITION

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§ GV.432.139. MUTINY, SEDITION, FAILURE TO SUPPRESS MUTINY OR SEDITION

MUTINY, SEDITION, FAILURE TO SUPPRESS MUTINY OR SEDITION. A person subject to this chapter who: (1) with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates a 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; (3) fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition that he knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition. Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.

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