(1) Any person subject to this code who willfully and wrongfully hazards or suffers to be hazarded any vessel of the Armed Forces of the United States or any state military forces shall suffer such punishment as a court-martial may direct.
(2) Any person subject to this code who negligently hazards or suffers to be hazarded any vessel of the Armed Forces of the United States or any state military forces shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 35.642

  • Code: means this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 35.010
  • Military: refers to any or all of the Armed Forces. See Kentucky Statutes 35.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • State military forces: means the Kentucky National Guard as defined in Title 32 of the United States Code and as organized under the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 35.010
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.

Effective: June 25, 2013
History: Created 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 32, sec. 113, effective June 25, 2013.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/25/2013). 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 32, sec. 113, prescribed that this statute be created as a new section of KRS Chapter 110. Since there currently is not a KRS Chapter 110 to be utilized, the Reviser of Statutes has created this statute as a new section of KRS Chapter 35 to correct this manifest clerical or typographical error under the authority of KRS § 7.136.