South Dakota Codified Laws 33-10-262. Mutiny–Sedition–Failure to suppress or report
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 the person’s duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 33-10-262
- Commanding officer: includes only commissioned officers of the state military forces and shall include officers in charge only when administering nonjudicial punishment pursuant to this code. See South Dakota Codified Laws 33-10-20
- Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
(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 the person’s utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in the person’s presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform the person’s superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which the person knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
Source: SL 2012, ch 175, § 243.