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20 ILCS 1807/85

(20 ILCS 1807/85)

    Sec. 85. Article 85. Desertion.
    (a) 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 therefrom 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.

(b) Any commissioned officer of the State military forces who, after tender of his resignation and before notice of its acceptance, quits his post or proper duties without leave and with intent to remain away therefrom permanently is guilty of desertion.

(c)    Any person found guilty of desertion or attempt to desert shall be punished, if the offense is committed in time of war, by confinement of not more than 10 years or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct, but if the desertion or attempt to desert occurs at any other time, by such punishment as a court-martial may direct.

(Source: P.A. 99-796, eff. 1-1-17.)