---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 905a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "905a"
heading: "Art. 105a. False or unauthorized pass offenses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/905a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §905a. Art. 105a. False or unauthorized pass offenses

- (a) **Wrongful Making, Altering, etc.—** Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who, wrongfully and falsely, makes, alters, counterfeits, or tampers with a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) or official pass, permit, discharge certificate, or identification card shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
- (b) **Wrongful Sale, etc.—** Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who wrongfully sells, gives, lends, or disposes of a false or unauthorized [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) or official pass, permit, discharge certificate, or identification card, knowing that the pass, permit, discharge certificate, or identification card is false or unauthorized, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
- (c) **Wrongful Use or Possession.—** Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who wrongfully uses or possesses a false or unauthorized [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) or official pass, permit, discharge certificate, or identification card, knowing that the pass, permit, discharge certificate, or identification card is false or unauthorized, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–328, div. E, title LX, § 5416, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2944.)

## Notes

### 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.