Any warrant officer or enlisted member who:
A. strikes or assaults a warrant officer, noncommissioned officer or petty officer while that officer is in the execution of his office;
B. willfully disobeys the lawful order of a warrant officer, noncommissioned officer or petty officer; or
C. treats with contempt or is disrespectful in language or deportment toward a warrant officer, noncommissioned officer or petty officer while that officer is in the execution of his office;
shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
History: 1978 Comp., § 20-12-26, enacted by Laws 1989, ch. 337, § 25.
Effective dates. — Laws 1989, ch. 337 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 16, 1989.
Structure 2021 New Mexico Statutes
Article 12 - Code of Military Justice
Section 20-12-1 - Short title.
Section 20-12-3 - Persons subject to the code; applicability of the code.
Section 20-12-4 - Convening authorities; nonjudicial punishment authorities.
Section 20-12-5 - Judge advocates.
Section 20-12-6 - Limitation on punishments.
Section 20-12-7 - Advice; reviews and appeals; extraordinary writs.
Section 20-12-8 - Confinement.
Section 20-12-9 - Reductions in grade.
Section 20-12-10 - Forfeitures or fines.
Section 20-12-11 - Nonjudicial punishment.
Section 20-12-12 - Absence without leave; confinement during period of duty.
Section 20-12-13 - Accessory after the fact.
Section 20-12-14 - Conviction of lesser included offense.
Section 20-12-16 - Conspiracy.
Section 20-12-17 - Solicitation.
Section 20-12-18 - Fraudulent enlistment, appointment or separation.
Section 20-12-19 - Unlawful enlistment, appointment or separation.
Section 20-12-21 - Absence without leave.
Section 20-12-22 - Missing movement.
Section 20-12-23 - Contempt toward officials.
Section 20-12-24 - Disrespect toward superior commissioned officer.
Section 20-12-25 - Assaulting or willfully disobeying superior commissioned officer.
Section 20-12-27 - Failure to obey order or regulation.
Section 20-12-28 - Cruelty and maltreatment.
Section 20-12-29 - Mutiny or sedition.
Section 20-12-30 - Resistance, breach of arrest and escape.
Section 20-12-31 - Releasing prisoner without proper authority.
Section 20-12-32 - Unlawful detention.
Section 20-12-33 - Noncompliance with procedural rules.
Section 20-12-34 - Misbehavior before the enemy.
Section 20-12-35 - Subordinate compelling surrender.
Section 20-12-36 - Improper use of countersign.
Section 20-12-37 - Forcing a safeguard.
Section 20-12-38 - Captured or abandoned property.
Section 20-12-39 - Aiding the enemy.
Section 20-12-40 - Misconduct as prisoner.
Section 20-12-43 - False official statements.
Section 20-12-46 - Improper hazarding of vessel.
Section 20-12-47 - Drunken or reckless driving.
Section 20-12-48 - Drunk on duty.
Section 20-12-50 - Manslaughter.
Section 20-12-51 - Rape and other sex crimes.
Section 20-12-52 - Larceny and wrongful appropriation.
Section 20-12-55 - Making, drawing or uttering check, draft or order without sufficient funds.
Section 20-12-62 - Housebreaking.
Section 20-12-64 - Frauds against the United States.
Section 20-12-65 - Conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.
Section 20-12-66 - Wrongful use and possession of controlled substances.
Section 20-12-67 - Misbehavior of sentinel.
Section 20-12-69 - Malingering.
Section 20-12-70 - Riot or breach of peace.
Section 20-12-71 - Provoking speeches or gestures.
Section 20-12-72 - Principals.
Section 20-12-73 - General article.
Section 20-12-75 - Wearing unauthorized insignia, decoration, badge, ribbon, device or lapel button.