S.C. Code Ann. § 25-1-2550
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SECTION 25-1-2550. Jurisdiction of general courts-martial.
Official statutory text
Subject to Section 25-1-2540, general courts-martial have jurisdiction to try persons subject to this code for an offense made punishable by the code. Under limitations the Governor may prescribe, or further limitations the Adjutant General may prescribe, a general court-martial may order any of the following: (1) dismissal, or dishonorable or bad-conduct discharge; (2) confinement of not more than ten years; (3) a fine of not more than forty days' pay; (4) reduction of enlisted personnel to the lowest pay grade; (5) a reprimand; (6) any combination of these punishments. Effect of Amendment The 2011 amendment rewrote the section. 2024 Act No. 145, SECTION 7, in (2), substituted "ten years" for "twelve months", deleted (5), which related to forfeiture of pay and allowances not to exceed forty days' pay, and redesignated former (6) and (7) as (5) and (6).
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