Iowa Code § 29B.91
Mutiny or sedition
Iowa · Iowa Code Chapter 29B — Military Justice · Status: effective
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- Iowa Code § 29B.91, Mutiny or sedition, Iowa, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-03, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2219072
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1. Any person subject to this code who:
a. With intent to usurp or override lawful military authority refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do the person’s duty or creates any violence or disturbance against that authority is guilty of mutiny;
b. With intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition;
c. Fails to do the person’s utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in the person’s presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform the person’s superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which the person knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
2. A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.