Article 247. Desertion
- a) Desertion; that is, absenting oneself from a military unit or place of service for the purpose of avoiding military service, and in like manner the failure, for the sane purpose, to report for duty at the specified time when assigned, transferred, returning from temporary detached duty, from leave, or from a medical institution, when committed by a person serving a regular period of enlistment in military service—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of from three to seven years;
- b) the same acts, when committed in time of war—
- shall be punishable by death, or by deprivation of freedom for a period of from five to ten years;
- c) desertion, when committed by an officer or a person serving beyond the regular period of enlistment—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of from five to seven years;
- d) the same act, when committed in time of war—
- shall be punishable by death, or by deprivation of freedom for a period of from seven to ten years.
Article 248. Absence without leave from a unit under combat conditions
Absence without leave from a unit or place of service under combat conditions, irrespective of the duration of absence—
- shall be punishable by death, or by deprivation of freedom for a period of from three to ten years.
Article 249. Evasion of military service by means of mutilation or other method
- a) The evasion, on the part of a person in military service, of performance of such military service by means of inflicting injury upon himself (mutilation), or by means of malingering, the forgery of documents, or other fraud, and in like manner the refusal to perform the obligations of military service—
- shall be punishable by deprivation of freedom for a period of from three to seven years;
- b) the same acts, if committed in time of war or under combat conditions—
- shall be punishable by death, or by deprivation of freedom for a period of from five to ten years.
