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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="13A-203" title_number="13A" title_name="Maryland Code of Military Justice" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Apprehension and Restraint">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An enlisted member may be ordered into arrest or confinement by a commissioned officer by an order, oral or written, delivered in person or through other persons subject to this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A commanding officer may authorize warrant officers or noncommissioned officers to order enlisted members of the commanding officer’s command or subject to the commanding officer’s authority into arrest or confinement.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A commissioned officer, a warrant officer, or a civilian subject to this title or to trial thereunder may be ordered into arrest or confinement only by a commanding officer to whose authority the person is subject, by an order, oral or written, delivered in person or by another commissioned officer.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The authority to order such persons into arrest or confinement may not be delegated.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>No person may be ordered into arrest or confinement except for probable cause.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>This section does not limit the authority of persons authorized to apprehend offenders to secure the custody of an alleged offender until proper authority may be notified.</text>
  </level>
</section>
