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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="13A-910" title_number="13A" title_name="Maryland Code of Military Justice" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Post–trial Procedure and Review of Courts–martial">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Before the vacation of the suspension of a special court–martial sentence, which as approved includes a bad–conduct discharge, or of any general court–martial sentence, the officer having special court–martial jurisdiction over the probationer shall hold a hearing on an alleged violation of probation.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Staff Judge Advocate may detail a judge advocate, who is certified under § 13A–506 of this title, to conduct the hearing.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The probationer shall be represented at the hearing by military counsel if the probationer so desires.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The record of the hearing and the recommendation of the officer having special court–martial jurisdiction shall be sent for action to the officer exercising general court–martial jurisdiction over the probationer.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the officer vacates the suspension, any unexecuted part of the sentence, except a dismissal, shall be executed, subject to applicable restrictions in this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The suspension of any other sentence may be vacated by any authority competent to convene, for the command in which the accused is serving or assigned, a court of the kind that imposed the sentence.</text>
  </level>
</section>
