---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1058"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1058"
heading: "Responsibilities of military law enforcement officials at scenes of domestic violence"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1058"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 53 — Miscellaneous Rights and Benefits"
---

# §1058. Responsibilities of military law enforcement officials at scenes of domestic violence

- (a) **Immediate Actions Required.—** Under regulations prescribed pursuant to [subsection (c)](#c), the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) shall ensure, in any case of domestic violence in which a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) law enforcement official at the scene determines that physical injury has been inflicted or a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument has been used, that [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) law enforcement officials—
  - (1) take immediate measures to reduce the potential for further violence at the scene; and
  - (2) within 24 hours of the incident, provide a report of the domestic violence to the appropriate commander and to a local [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) family advocacy representative exercising responsibility over the area in which the incident took place.
- (b) **Family Advocacy Committee.—** Under regulations prescribed pursuant to [subsection (c)](#c), the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) shall ensure that, whenever a report is provided to a commander under [subsection (a)(2)](#a-2), a multidisciplinary family advocacy committee meets, with all due practicable speed, to review the situation and to make recommendations to the commander for appropriate action.
- (c) **Regulations.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense, and the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, shall prescribe by regulation the definition of “domestic violence” for purposes of this section and such other regulations as may be necessary for purposes of this section.
- (d) **Military Law Enforcement Official.—** In this section, the term “[military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) law enforcement official” means a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) authorized under regulations governing the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) to apprehend [persons](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to the Uniform Code of [Military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) Justice ([chapter 47](/usc/10/chstA/ptII/ch47.md) of this title) or to trial thereunder.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–160, div. A, title V, § 551(a)(1), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1661; amended Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title X, § 1070(a)(4), (b)(3), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2855, 2856; Pub. L. 107–296, title XVII, § 1704(b)(1), Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2314.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Other sections 1058 were renumbered sections 1059 and 1060 of this title.

### Amendments

2002—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 107–296 substituted “of Homeland Security” for “of Transportation”.

1994—Pub. L. 103–337, § 1070(b)(3), made technical correction to directory language of Pub. L. 103–160, § 551(a)(1), which enacted this section.

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103–337, § 1070(a)(4), substituted “subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (chapter 47 of this title)” for “subject to this chapter”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2002 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 107–296 effective on the date of transfer of the Coast Guard to the Department of Homeland Security, see section 1704(g) of Pub. L. 107–296, set out as a note under section 101 of this title.

### Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title X, § 1070(b), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2856, provided that the amendment made by that section is effective as of Nov. 30, 1993, and as if included in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994, Pub. L. 103–160, as enacted.

### Deadline for Prescribing Procedures

Pub. L. 103–160, div. A, title V, § 551(b), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1662, provided that: “The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe procedures to carry out section 1058 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), not later than six months after the date of the enactment of this Act [Nov. 30, 1993].”