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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="13A-1032" title_number="13A" title_name="Maryland Code of Military Justice" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Punitive Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A person subject to this title shall be punished as a court–martial may direct if the person, with intent to deceive:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>signs a false record, return, regulation, order, or other official document, knowing it to be false; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>makes any other false official statement knowing it to be false.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person subject to this title shall be punished as a court–martial may direct if the person:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>takes an oath that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is administered in a matter in which such oath is required or authorized by law; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is administered by a person with authority to do so; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>on such oath, makes or subscribes to a statement that is false and at the time of taking the oath, the person does not believe the statement to be true.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
