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RS 29:120 - Article 20. Summary courts-martial

LA Rev Stat § 29:120 (2018) (N/A)
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§120. Article 20. Summary courts-martial

A. In the national guard not in federal service, the commanding officer of a garrison, fort, post, camp, air base, auxiliary air base, or other place where troops are on duty, or of a brigade, regiment, wing, group, detached battalion, detached squadron, detached company or other detachment, may convene a summary court-martial consisting of one commissioned officer. The proceedings shall be informal.

B. Summary courts-martial shall not have jurisdiction over officers.

C. A summary court-martial may sentence to:

(1) Confinement of not more than thirty days;

(2) Reduction of enlisted personnel to the lowest grade;

(3) A fine of not more than one hundred dollars;

(4) Forfeiture of up to one month pay and allowances;

(5) A reprimand; or

(6) Any combination of these punishments.

Acts 1974, No. 621, §1. Amended by Acts 1978, No. 166, §3; Acts 1992, No. 530, §1, eff. July 1, 1992; Acts 2007, No. 309, §1, eff. July 1, 2007; Acts 2017, No. 75, §1, eff. June 8, 2017.

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