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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(1) Any person subject to this code who, with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his or her duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny.
(2) Any such person who, 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 such authority is guilty of sedition.
(3) Any such person who fails to do his or her utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his or her presence or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his or her superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which he or she knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
(4) Any person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished by confinement of not more than ten years or such other punishment as a court-martial directs.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Colorado Revised Statutes Title 28. Military and Veterans § 28-3.1-518. Mutiny and sedition - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-28-military-and-veterans/co-rev-st-sect-28-3-1-518/
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