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Miss. Code Ann. § 33-13-159

Jurisdiction of summary courts-martial

Known as the Mississippi Code

The act spans §§ 33–33 (136 sections).

Codes, 1942, § 8529-20; Laws, 1966, ch. 538, § 20; Laws, 1981, ch. 362, § 22; Laws, 2016, ch. 404, § 3; Laws, 2017, ch. 354, § 2, eff from and after July 1, 2017; Laws, 2019, ch…

(1) Subject to Section 33-13-153 of this code, summary courts-martial have jurisdiction to try persons subject to this code, except officers, for any offense made punishable by this code.

(2) Any person given notice of trial by a summary courts-martial may request trial before a special or general courts-martial. The decision to grant this request is reserved to the special or general court-martial convening authority, respectively.

(3) The maximum sentence a summary courts-martial may impose for a single offense is: A fine of not more than Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00);

(4) Reduction to the lowest or any intermediate pay grade, but an enlisted member in a pay grade above E-4 may not be reduced more than four (4) pay grades;

(5) Confinement for not more than thirty (30) days;

(6) Forfeiture of all pay and allowances for any period of confinement;

(7) If found to have willfully or maliciously caused any injury to any person or property, restitution in an amount of Three Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($3,500.00) or less; and

(8) Any punishment authorized in Section 33-13-31.

(9) Any person given notice of a trial by a summary courts-martial who fails to appear at trial may be tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.