# Public Safety (GPS)

## Title 13A. Maryland Code of Military Justice

### Subtitle 10. Punitive Provisions

#### Section 13A-1030

(a) A person subject to this title shall be punished as a court-martial may direct if the person wrongfully and willfully impersonates:

  (1) an officer or a noncommissioned officer;

  (2) an agent of superior authority of one of the armed forces; or

  (3) an official of a government.

(b) A person subject to this title who, wrongfully, willfully, and with intent to defraud, impersonates a person referred to in subsection (a)(1), (2), or (3) of this section shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

(c) A person subject to this title who, wrongfully, willfully, and without intent to defraud, impersonates an official of a government by committing an act that exercises or asserts the authority of the office that the person claims to have shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

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Md. Code Ann., Pub. Safety (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)