---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 928a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "928a"
heading: "Art. 128a. Maiming"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/928a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §928a. Art. 128a. Maiming


Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who, with intent to injure, disfigure, or disable, inflicts upon the [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) of another an injury which—

- (1) seriously disfigures his [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) by any mutilation thereof;
- (2) destroys or disables any member or organ of his body; or
- (3) seriously diminishes his physical vigor by the injury of any member or organ;

is guilty of maiming and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 74, § 924; renumbered § 928a, Pub. L. 114–328, div. E, title LX, § 5401(13)(A), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2939.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 924 | 50:718. | May 5, 1950, ch. 169, § 1 (Art. 124), 64 Stat. 141. |

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2016—Pub. L. 114–328 renumbered section 924 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2016 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 114–328 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.