---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 811"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "811"
heading: "Art. 11. Reports and receiving of prisoners"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/811"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter II — Apprehension and Restraint"
---

# §811. Art. 11. Reports and receiving of prisoners

- (a) No provost marshal, commander of a guard, or master at arms may refuse to receive or keep any prisoner committed to his charge by a [commissioned officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-2) of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4), when the committing [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) furnishes a statement, signed by him, of the offense charged against the prisoner.
- (b) Every commander of a guard or master at arms to whose charge a prisoner is committed shall, within twenty-four hours after that commitment or as soon as he is relieved from guard, report to the [commanding officer](/usc/10/801.md?p=3) the name of the prisoner, the offense charged against him, and the name of the [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) who ordered or authorized the commitment.

## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 40.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 811(a)<br>811(b) | 50:565(a).<br>50:565(b). | May 5, 1950, ch. 169, § 1 (Art. 11), 64 Stat. 112. |

In subsection (a), the word “may” is substituted for the word “shall”. The words “a commissioned” are substituted for the word “an” for clarity.