                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROTECTION OF THE UNIFORM (§ 44-120)

It shall be unlawful for any person, not an officer, warrant officer or enlisted
person in the armed forces of the United States, to wear the duly prescribed
uniform thereof, or any distinctive part of such uniform, or a uniform any part
of which is similar to a distinctive part of the duly prescribed uniform of the
armed forces of the United States.
		The foregoing provision shall not be construed so as to prevent officers,
warrant officers or enlisted persons of the National Guard, nor to prevent
members of the organization known as the Boy Scouts of America, or such other
organizations as the Secretary of Defense may designate, from wearing their
prescribed uniforms; nor to prevent persons who in time of war have served
honorably as officers of the armed forces of the United States and whose most
recent service was terminated by an honorable discharge, muster out, or
resignation, from wearing, upon occasions of ceremony, the uniform of the
highest grade they have held in such service; nor to prevent any person who has
been honorably discharged from the armed forces of the United States from
wearing his uniform from the place of his discharge to his home, within three
months after his discharge; nor to prevent the members of military societies
composed entirely of honorably discharged officers and enlisted persons, or
both, of the armed forces of the United States from wearing, upon occasions of
ceremony, the uniform duly prescribed by such societies to be worn by members
thereof; nor to prevent the instructors and members of the duly organized cadet
corps of any educational institution offering a regular course in military
instruction from wearing the uniform duly prescribed by appropriate respective
authority to be worn by instructors and members of such cadet corps; nor to
prevent the instructors and members of such duly organized cadet corps of such
institution of learning offering a regular course in military instruction and at
which an officer, warrant officer or enlisted person of the armed forces of the
United States is lawfully detailed for duty as instructor in military science
and tactics, from wearing the uniform duly prescribed by appropriate authority
to be worn by instructors and members of such cadet corps; nor to prevent
civilians attending a course of military instruction authorized and conducted by
the military authorities of the United States from wearing while attending such
a course the uniform authorized and prescribed by such military authorities to
be worn during such course of instruction; nor to prevent any person from
wearing the uniform of the armed forces of the United States, in any playhouse
or theater or in motion picture films or television while actually engaged in
representing therein a military character not tending to bring discredit or
reproach upon the armed forces of the United States.
		The uniform worn by members of military societies, or the instructors and
members of the cadet corps referred to in the preceding paragraph, shall include
some distinctive mark or insignia approved by the Secretary of Defense, to
distinguish such uniforms from the uniform of the armed forces of the United
States. The members of the military societies and the instructors and members of
the cadet corps hereinbefore mentioned shall not wear the insignia of rank
prescribed to be worn by the officers of the armed forces of the United States,
or any insignia of rank similar thereto, unless otherwise authorized.
		Any person who offends against the provisions of this section shall, on
conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding $100, or by imprisonment not
exceeding 30 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

HISTORY: 1930, p. 971; Michie Code 1942, § 2673(105); 1958, c. 393; 2011, cc.
572, 586.