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

# §931b. Art. 131b. Obstructing justice


Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who engages in conduct in the case of a certain [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) against whom the accused had reason to believe there were or would be criminal or disciplinary proceedings pending, with intent to influence, impede, or otherwise obstruct the due administration of justice shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–328, div. E, title LX, § 5445, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2956.)

## 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.