[§124B-157]  Misbehavior before the enemy.  Any member of the state military forces who before the presence of the enemy:

     (1)  Runs away;

     (2)  Shamefully abandons, surrenders, or delivers up any command, unit, place, or military property that it is that person's duty to defend;

     (3)  Through disobedience, neglect, or intentional misconduct endangers the safety of any command, unit, place, or military property;

     (4)  Casts away the person's arms or ammunition;

     (5)  Is guilty of cowardly conduct;

     (6)  Quits the person's place of duty to plunder or pillage;

     (7)  Causes false alarms in any command, unit, or place under control of the state military forces;

     (8)  Wilfully fails to do the person's utmost to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy any enemy troops, combatants, vessels, aircraft, or any other thing that it is the person's duty so to encounter, engage, capture, or destroy; or

     (9)  Does not afford all practicable relief and assistance to any troops, combatants, vessels, or aircraft of the state military forces or the armed forces belonging to the State, the United States or their allies, or any other state, commonwealth, or territory when engaged in battle,

shall be punished as directed by a court-martial. [L 2022, c 286, pt of §2]