(a) Any member of the national guard who:

Attorney's Note

Under the Tennessee Code, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
class C felony3 to 15 yearsup to $10,000
For details, see Tenn. Code § 40-35-111
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 58-1-620

(1) With intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise to do such guard member’s duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;
(2) With intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence or other disturbances against that authority is guilty of sedition;
(3) Fails to do the utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in the guard member’s presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform the superior commissioned officer or the commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which the guard member knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
(b) Any member of the national guard who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition is guilty of a Class C felony.
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