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HRS §124B-151

Mutiny or sedition

This law covers mutiny (refusing orders with others to override military authority) and sedition (revolt against civil authority). It also makes it a crime to fail to stop or report these acts. Punishment is decided by a military court.

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The statute, as written — Mutiny or sedition

(a) Any person subject to this chapter who: (1) With intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do that person's duty or creates any violence or disturbance shall be guilty of mutiny; (2) 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 shall be guilty of sedition; or (3) Fails to do that 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 that the person knows or has reason to believe is taking place shall be guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition. (b) 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 directed by a court-martial.
Read the official text at capitol.hawaii.gov ↗as published Jan 6, 2026our copy taken Aug 20, 2026

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