Improper Use of Countersign

Any person subject to the Code who in time of insurrection or civil disturbance discloses the parole or countersign to any person not entitled to receive it or who gives to another who is entitled to receive and use the parole or countersign a different parole or countersign from that which, to his knowledge, he was authorized to give, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.