Minor Misdemeanor Offenses
Not an all inclusive list, but it should help you figure out how your charges may effect your enlistment, and who the waiver authority may be when you use the conduct waiver guide.
Examples of Non-Traffic Offenses
- Altered driver's license or identification.
- Assault (simple assault with fine or restitution of $500 or less and no confinement).
- Carrying concealed weapon (other than firearm); possession of brass knuckles.
- Check, worthless, making or uttering, with intent to defraud or deceive (less than $500).
- Committing a nuisance.
- Conspiring to commit a misdemeanor.
- Curfew violation.
- Damaging road signs.
- Discharging firearm through carelessness or within municipal limits.
- Disobeying summons, failure to appear other than traffic.
- Disorderly conduct; creating disturbance; boisterous conduct.
- Disturbing peace.
- Drinking in public.
- Drunk in public; drunk and disorderly.
- Dumping refuse near highway.
- Failure to appear, contempt of court. (all offenses except felony proceedings)
- Failure to appear, contempt of court. (felony proceedings)
- Failure to stop and render aid after accident.
- Fare/toll evasion.
- Harassment, menacing or stalking.
- Illegal betting or gambling; operating illegal handbook, raffle, lottery, punch board; cockfight.
- Indecent exposure.
- Indecent, insulting, or obscene language communicated by telephone to another person.
- Jumping turnstile (to include those States that adjudicate jumping a turnstile as petty larceny)
- Juvenile adjudications; such as beyond parental control; incorrigible; runaway; truant; or wayward.
- Killing a domestic animal.
- Littering.
- Loitering.
- Malicious mischief. (Fine or restitution of $500 or less and no confinement)
- Pandering.
- Poaching.
- Purchase, possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages or tobacco products by minor.
- Removing property from public grounds.
- Removing property under lien.
- Robbing orchard.
- Shooting from highway.
- Throwing glass or other material in roadway.
- Trespass (non-criminal/simple).
- Unlawful assembly.
- Unlawful manufacture, sale, possession, or consumption of liquor in a public place.
- Unlawful use of long-distance calling card.
- Using or wearing unlawful emblem/identification.
- Vagrancy.
- Vandalism (Fine or restitution of $500 or less and no confinement).
- Violation of fireworks laws.
- Violation of fish and game laws.
- Violation of leash law.
- Violation of probation.
Offenses of comparable seriousness should be treated as non-traffic offenses. In doubtful cases, the following rule should be applied: “If the maximum confinement under local law is four months or less, the offense should be treated as a non-traffic offense.”
If you have any questions after reading the article, either contact your local recruiter, or you can ask me directly.
*** Once in the Navy, if you are arrested, you have an obligation to self-report the arrest immediately to your chain of command. Withholding that information would be a violation of a direct order and could be punishable under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
Page written and maintained by NCCM Thomas Goering, USN (Retired).
