---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 884"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "884"
heading: "Art. 84. Breach of medical quarantine"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/884"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §884. Art. 84. Breach of medical quarantine


Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter—

- (1) who is ordered into medical quarantine by a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) authorized to issue such order; and
- (2) who, with knowledge of the quarantine and the limits of the quarantine, goes beyond those limits before being released from the quarantine by proper authority;

shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–328, div. E, title LX, § 5405, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2940.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 884 was renumbered section 904b 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.