---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 949t"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "949t"
heading: "Maximum limits"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/949t"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47A — Military Commissions"
  - "Subchapter VI — Sentences"
---

# §949t. Maximum limits


The punishment which a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) commission under this chapter may direct for an offense may not exceed such limits as the President or [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may prescribe for that offense.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title XVIII, § 1802, Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2598.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 949t, added Pub. L. 109–366, § 3(a)(1), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2617, related to maximum limits of punishment, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 111–84.