{"data":{"id":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-27-165","jurisdiction":"us-ct","citation":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 27-165","heading":"Commanding officer may convene summary courts-martial.","body":"(a) In the state military forces not in federal service, the commanding officer of a garrison, fort, post, camp, air base, auxiliary air base, or other place where troops are on duty, or of a regiment, wing, group, detached battalion, detached squadron, detached company, or other detachment, may convene a summary court-martial consisting of one commissioned officer. The proceedings shall be informal.\n(b) When only one commissioned officer is present with a command or detachment he shall be the summary court-martial of that command or detachment and shall hear and determine all summary court-martial cases brought before him. Summary courts-martial may, however, be convened in any case by superior competent authority, when considered desirable by him.","path":["TITLE 27. ARMED FORCES AND VETERANS","CHAPTER 507. CONNECTICUT CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE"],"source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_507.htm#sec_27-165","current_through":"Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T19:07:08Z","sha256":"143d5b5128324f89b935c03cf98542a65adc9c7b4ac4d6b2add82d45a0d4df9d","source_id":"us-ct","stale":false,"prev":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-27-164","next":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-27-166"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}