Sec. 99.
A person subject to this code who before or in the presence of the enemy or during the performance of duty in a peacetime emergency or civil disturbance operation commits 1 of the following acts shall be punished as a court-martial directs:
(a) Runs away.
(b) Abandons, surrenders, or delivers up a command, unit, place, or military property which it is the person's duty to defend.
(c) Through disobedience, neglect, or intentional misconduct endangers the safety of a command, unit, place, or military property.
(d) Casts away arms or ammunition.
(e) Is guilty of cowardly conduct.
(f) Quits a place of duty to plunder or pillage.
(g) Causes false alarms in a command, unit, or place under the control of the armed forces of the United States, the state military forces, or the military forces of any other state or territory.
(h) Willfully fails to do the person's utmost to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy enemy troops, combatants, vessels, aircraft, or any other thing which it is the person's duty to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy.
(i) Does not afford all practicable relief and assistance to troops, combatants, vessels, or aircraft of the armed forces belonging to the United States, to their allies, or to any other state or to the state military forces if engaged in battle.
(j) Willfully fails to do his or her utmost to suppress civil disturbance while engaged in an emergency response operation.
History: 1980, Act 523, Eff. Mar. 31, 1981 ;-- Am. 2005, Act 186, Imd. Eff. Oct. 27, 2005
Structure Michigan Compiled Laws
Chapter 32 - Military Establishment
Act 523 of 1980 - Michigan Code of Military Justice of 1980 (32.1001 - 32.1148)
Article 10 - (32.1077...32.1134)
Section 32.1077 - Person Subject to Code as Principal.
Section 32.1078 - Receiving, Comforting, or Assisting Offender; Punishment.
Section 32.1081 - Conspiracy; Punishment.
Section 32.1086 - Failure to Go To, or Going or Remaining Absent From, Place of Duty; Punishment.
Section 32.1088 - Use of Contemptuous Words; Prohibition; Violation.
Section 32.1089 - Disrespect Toward Superior Commissioned Officer; Punishment.
Section 32.1091 - Prohibited Acts by Warrant Officer or Enlisted Person; Punishment.
Section 32.1094 - Mutiny, Sedition, or Failure to Suppress or Report Mutiny or Sedition; Punishment.
Section 32.1096 - Releasing Prisoner or Permitting Prisoner to Escape; Punishment.
Section 32.1097 - Wrongful Apprehension, Arrest, or Confinement of Person; Punishment.
Section 32.1102 - Forcing a Safeguard; Punishment.
Section 32.1107 - Signing or Making False Document or False Official Statement; Punishment.
Section 32.1109 - Wasting, Spoiling, or Destroying Property; Punishment.
Section 32.1114 - Repealed. 2015, Act 210, Eff. Mar. 14, 2016.
Section 32.1116 - Causing or Participating in Riot or Breach of Peace; Punishment.
Section 32.1117 - Using Provoking or Reproachful Words or Gestures While in Duty Status; Punishment.
Section 32.1121 - Depriving Owner of Property or Money; Larceny; Punishment.
Section 32.1131 - Giving False Testimony in a Proceeding as Perjury; Punishment.
Section 32.1132 - Making False Claims; Prohibited Acts; Punishment.
Section 32.1133 - Conduct Unbecoming an Officer; Conviction; Punishment.