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Kentucky Revised Statutes · § 35.605 — Subordinate compelling surrender

35.605. Subordinate compelling surrender

Any person subject to this code who compels or attempts to compel the commander of the state military forces of the state, or of any other state, place, vessel, aircraft, or other military property, or of any body of members of the Armed Forces, to give it up to an enemy or to abandon it, or who strikes the colors or flag to an enemy without proper authority, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Source notes

Effective: June 25, 2013

History and annotations

Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 32, sec. 104, effective June 25, 2013. -- Created 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 56, sec. 77.

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