Any member of the state military forces who:

(1) Without authority goes or remains absent from the member’s unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to remain away there from permanently;

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(2) Quits the member’s unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service; or

(3) Without being regularly separated from one of the state military forces enlists or accepts an appointment in the same or another one of the state military forces, or in one of the armed forces of the United States, without fully disclosing the fact that the member has not been regularly separated, or enters any foreign armed service except when authorized by the United States;

is guilty of desertion.

Source: SL 2012, ch 175, § 232.