(a)  Any person subject to this code 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 or her 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 disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition; or

(3)  Fails to do his or her utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in that person’s 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 that person knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws 30-13-94

  • Commanding officer: includes only commissioned officers;
    (5) "Commissioned officer" includes a commissioned warrant officer;
    (6) "Convening authority" includes, in addition to the person who convened the court, a commissioned officer commanding for the time being, or a successor in command;
    (7) "Duty status other than active state duty" means any type of required duty other than that set forth in subdivision (2) of this section and includes travel to and from that duty;
    (8) "Enlisted member" means a person in an enlisted grade;
    (9) "Grade" means a step or degree, in a graduated scale of office or military rank, that is established and designed as a grade by law or regulation;
    (10) Law officer" means an official of a general court-martial detailed in accordance with § 30-13-28
    (11) "Law specialist" means a commissioned officer of the organized naval militia of the state designated for special duty (law);
    (12) "Legal officer" means any commissioned officer of the organized naval militia of the state designated to perform legal duties for a command;
    (13) "May" is used in a permissive sense. See Rhode Island General Laws 30-13-1
  • Military: refers to any or all of the armed forces;
    (15) "Military court" means a court-martial, a court of inquiry, or a provost court;
    (16) "Officer" means commissioned or warrant officer;
    (17) "Rank" means the order of precedence among members of the state military forces;
    (18) "Shall" is used in an imperative sense;
    (19) "State judge advocate" means the commissioned officer on the staff of the adjutant general responsible for supervising military justice in the state military forces;
    (20) "State military forces" means the national guard of the state, as defined in 32 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 30-13-1
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Superior commissioned officer: means a commissioned officer superior in rank or command. See Rhode Island General Laws 30-13-1

(b)  A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

History of Section.
G.L. 1956, § 30-13-94; P.L. 1962, ch. 82, § 1.