10 U.S.C. § 884
Section 884 · Art. 84. Unlawful enlistment, appointment, or separation
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 21 court decisions — leading case United States v. Russo (1975)
Most recently applied in United States v. Contreras (June 2010)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Any person subject to this chapter—
(1) who is ordered into medical quarantine by a person authorized to issue such order; and
(2) who, with knowledge of the quarantine and the limits of the quarantine, goes beyond those limits before being released from the quarantine by proper authority;
shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Prior Provisions
A prior section 884 was renumbered section 904b of this title.
Effective Date
Section effective on Jan. 1, 2019, as designated by the President, with implementing regulations and provisions relating to applicability to various situations, see section 5542 of Pub. L. 114–328 and Ex. Ord. No. 13825, set out as notes under section 801 of this title.