---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 931"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "931"
heading: "Art. 131. Perjury"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/931"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §931. Art. 131. Perjury


Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who in a judicial proceeding or in a course of justice willfully and corruptly—

- (1) upon a lawful oath or in any form allowed by law to be substituted for an oath, gives any false testimony material to the issue or matter of inquiry; or
- (2) in any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty of perjury as permitted under [section 1746 of title 28](/usc/28/1746.md), subscribes any false statement material to the issue or matter of inquiry;

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


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 75; Pub. L. 94–550, § 3, Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2535; Pub. L. 97–295, § 1(13), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1289.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 931 | 50:725. | May 5, 1950, ch. 169, § 1 (Art. 131), 64 Stat. 142. |

The words “in a” are inserted before the words “course of justice”.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1982—Par. (2). Pub. L. 97–295 struck out “United States Code,” after “title 28,”.

1976—Pub. L. 94–550 divided existing provisions into an introductory phrase, par. (1), and a closing phrase, and added par. (2).