---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 922a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "922a"
heading: "Art. 122a. Receiving stolen property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/922a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §922a. Art. 122a. Receiving stolen property


Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who wrongfully receives, buys, or conceals stolen property, knowing the property to be stolen property, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–328, div. E, title LX, § 5435, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2952.)

## 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.