51 Pa.C.S. § 6009 Desertion

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-66
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 51 Pa.C.S. § 6009

(a) Offense defined.-- Any member of the State military forces who:

(1) without authority goes or remains absent from his unit, organization or place of duty with intent to remain away from there permanently;

(2) quits his unit, organization or place of duty with intent to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service; or

(3) without being regularly separated from one of the State military forces enlists or accepts an appointment in the same or another one of the State military forces, or in one of the armed forces of the United States, without fully disclosing the fact that he has not been regularly separated or enters any foreign armed service, except when authorized by the United States; is guilty of desertion.