---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 901"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "901"
heading: "Art. 101. Improper use of countersign"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/901"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §901. Art. 101. Improper use of countersign


Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who in time of war discloses the parole or countersign to any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) not entitled to receive it or who gives to another who is entitled to receive and use the parole or countersign a different parole or countersign from that which, to his knowledge, he was authorized and required to give, shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.


## Source credit

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

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 901 | 50:695. | May 5, 1950, ch. 169, § 1 (Art. 101), 64 Stat. 137. |