---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 883"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "883"
heading: "Art. 83. Malingering"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/883"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §883. Art. 83. Malingering


Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who, with the intent to avoid work, duty, or service—

- (1) feigns illness, physical disablement, mental lapse, or mental derangement; or
- (2) intentionally inflicts self-injury;

shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–328, div. E, title LX, § 5404, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2940.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 883 was renumbered section 904a of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on Jan. 1, 2019, as designated by the President, with implementing regulations and provisions relating to applicability to various situations, see section 5542 of Pub. L. 114–328 and Ex. Ord. No. 13825, set out as notes under section 801 of this title.