---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2539"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2539"
heading: "Covered misconduct defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2539"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 25 — Personnel; General Provisions"
  - "Subchapter III — Covered Misconduct"
---

# §2539. Covered misconduct defined


In this title, the term “covered misconduct” means—

- (1) rape and sexual assault, as described in sections [920(a)](/usc/10/920.md?p=a) and [920(b)](/usc/10/920.md?p=b) of title 10 (articles 120(a) and 120(b) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice);
- (2) sexual harassment, as described in Executive Order 14062 dated January 26, 2022, and enumerated under [section 934 of title 10](/usc/10/934.md) (article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice);
- (3) abusive sexual contact and aggravated sexual contact, as described in sections [920(c)](/usc/10/920.md?p=c) and [920(d)](/usc/10/920.md?p=d) of title 10 (articles 120(c) and 120(d) of the Uniform Code of Military Justice);
- (4) wrongful broadcast, dissemination, or creation of content as described in sections 917[^1] and [920c](/usc/10/920c.md) of title 10 (articles 117a and 120c of the Uniform Code of Military Justice);
- (5) the child pornography offenses as described in [section 934 of title 10](/usc/10/934.md) (article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice);
- (6) rape and sexual assault of a child, other sexual misconduct, and stalking, as described in sections [920b](/usc/10/920b.md), [920c(a)](/usc/10/920c.md?p=a), and [930](/usc/10/930.md) of title 10 (articles 120b, 120c, and 130 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice); and
- (7) domestic violence, as described in [section 928b of title 10](/usc/10/928b.md) (article 128b of the Uniform Code of Military Justice).

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “917a”.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. G, title LXXV, § 7511(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1806.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Executive Order 14062, referred to in par. (2), is Ex. Ord. No. 14062, Jan. 26, 2022, 87 F.R. 4763, which is listed in a table under section 801 of Title 10, Armed Forces. For further details, see Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title V, § 539D, Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1699, set out as a note under section 934 of Title 10, Armed Forces.