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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="13A-1044" 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 who wrongfully communicates a threat to injure the person, property, or reputation of another shall be punished as a court–martial may direct.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person subject to this title who wrongfully communicates a threat to injure the person or property of another by use of an explosive, a weapon of mass destruction, a biological or chemical agent, substance, or weapon, or a hazardous material shall be punished as a court–martial may direct.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this subsection, “false threat” means a threat that, at the time the threat is communicated, is known to be false by the person communicating the threat.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person subject to this title who maliciously communicates a false threat concerning injury to the person or property of another by use of an explosive, a weapon of mass destruction, a biological or chemical agent, substance, or weapon, or a hazardous material, shall be punished as a court–martial may direct.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
