Notification of potential violation of military protection order - definitions

(1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Armed forces" means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard of the United States. (b) "Commanding officer" means a commissioned officer or warrant officer in a position of command in the armed forces or National Guard. (c) "Military protection order" means a protection order issued against a current member of the armed forces or National Guard by the member's commanding officer that prohibits the member from: (I) Contacting, harassing, injuring, intimidating, molesting, threatening, touching, or stalking a protected person; (II) Committing sexual violence by sexually assaulting or abusing a protected person; (III) Entering or remaining on premises or coming within a specified distance of a protected person or premises; (IV) Taking, transferring, concealing, harming, disposing of, or threatening harm to an animal owned, possessed, leased, kept, or held by a protected person; or (V) Posing any other risk or threat of physical harm to the protected person or threat of psychological or emotional harm to the protected person. (d) "National Guard" means the federally recognized Army National Guard and Air National Guard. (e) "Protected person" means the person identified in a military protection order as the person for whose benefit the protection order was issued. (2) When a peace officer has reasonable suspicion that a crime of domestic violence has occurred, the peace officer shall search the national crime information center database to determine whether a military protection order has been issued against one of the parties. If a military protection order has been issued against a party, the peace officer shall notify the military law enforcement agency that entered the protection order into the national crime information center database.