Tenn. Code Ann. § 58-1-620
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Mutiny or sedition
Official statutory text
(a) Any member of the national guard who: (1) With intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise to do such guard member'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 disturbances against that authority is guilty of sedition; (3) Fails to do the utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in the guard member's presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform the superior commissioned officer or the commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which the guard member knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition. (b) Any member of the national guard who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition is guilty of a Class C felony. Acts 1970, ch. 596, § 64, T.C.A., § 7-320; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 68.
(a) Any member of the national guard who: (1) With intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise to do such guard member'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 disturbances against that authority is guilty of sedition; (3) Fails to do the utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in the guard member's presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform the superior commissioned officer or the commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which the guard member knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
(1) With intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise to do such guard member'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 disturbances against that authority is guilty of sedition;
(3) Fails to do the utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in the guard member's presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform the superior commissioned officer or the commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which the guard member knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
(b) Any member of the national guard who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition is guilty of a Class C felony.
Acts 1970, ch. 596, § 64, T.C.A., § 7-320; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 68.
(a) Any member of the national guard who: (1) With intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise to do such guard member'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 disturbances against that authority is guilty of sedition; (3) Fails to do the utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in the guard member's presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform the superior commissioned officer or the commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which the guard member knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
(1) With intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise to do such guard member'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 disturbances against that authority is guilty of sedition;
(3) Fails to do the utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in the guard member's presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform the superior commissioned officer or the commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which the guard member knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
(b) Any member of the national guard who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition is guilty of a Class C felony.
Acts 1970, ch. 596, § 64, T.C.A., § 7-320; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 68.
Status: in_force
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