Dealers, Tradesmen, and Agents

In general, dealers, tradesmen, or their agents should not be admitted within a command, except as authorized by the CO to do the following:

l Conduct public business

l Transact specific private business with individuals at the request of the latter

l Furnish services and supplies that are necessary and are not otherwise, or are insufficiently, available to the personnel of the command.

Observance of Sunday

Except by reason of necessity or in the interest of the welfare and morale of the command, the performance of work should not be required on Sunday. Except by reason of necessity, ships should not be sailed nor units of aircraft or troops be deployed on Sunday. The provisions of this paragraph need not apply to commands engaged in training Reserve components of the Navy and the Marine Corps.

Divine services should be conducted on Sunday if possible. All assistance and encouragement should be given to chaplains in the conduct of these services, and

music should be made available, if possible. The chaplain should be permitted to conduct public worship according to the manner and form of the church he or she represents. A suitable space should be designated and properly rigged for the occasion. Quiet should be maintained throughout the vicinity during divine services. The religious pReferences and the varying religious needs of individuals should be recognized, respected, encouraged, and ministered to, if possible. Daily routine in ships and activities should be modified on Sunday if possible to achieve this end.

Publishing and Posting Orders and Regulations

According to Article 137 of the UCMJ, the articles specifically counted therein should be carefully explained to each enlisted person as follows:

1. At the time of entrance on active duty or within 6 days thereafter

2. Again, after completion of 6 months' active duty

3. Again, upon the occasion of each reenlistment

A text of the articles specifically counted in Article 137 of the UCMJ should be posted in a conspicuous place or places, readily accessible to all personnel of the command.

Instructions concerning the UCMJ and appropriate articles of Navy Regulations should be included in the training and educational program of the command.

Such general orders, orders from higher authority, and other matters that the CO considers of interest to the personnel or profitable for them to know should be published to the command as soon as possible. Such matters should also be posted in whole or in part, in a conspicuous place or places readily accessible to personnel of the command.

Upon the request of any person on active duty in the armed services, the following publications should be made available for personal examination:

l A complete text of the UCMJ

l Manual for Courts-Martial

l Navy Regulations, 1990

l Manual of the Judge Advocate General

l Naval Military Personnel Manual.

Delivery of Personnel to Civil Authorities and Service of Subpoena or Other Process

COs or other persons in authority should not deliver any person in the naval service to civil authorities except as provided by the Manual of the Judge Advocate General.

COs are authorized to permit the service of a subpoena or other process as provided by the Manual of the Judge Advocate General.

Search by Foreign Authorities

The CO should not permit a ship under his or her command to be searched on any pretense whatsoever by any person representing a foreign state, nor permit any personnel within the confines of the command to be removed from the command by such person, so long as the CO has the capacity to repel such an act, If force should be exerted to compel submission, the CO is to resist that force to the utmost of his or her power.

Except as may be provided by international agreement, the CO of a shore activity will not permit his or her command to be searched by any person representing a foreign state, nor permit any of the personnel within the confines of that command to be removed from the command by such person, so long as the CO has the power to resist.

Prisoners of War

On taking or receiving prisoners of war, the CO must make sure such prisoners are treated with humanity; their personal property is preserved and protected; they are allowed the use of such of their effects as may be necessary for their health; they are supplied with proper rations; they are properly guarded and deprived of all means of escape and revolt, and the applicable provisions of the 1949 Geneva Conventions relative to the treatment of prisoners of war are followed.

Proper Use of Labor and Materials

No government materials should be diverted from their intended use, except for proper purposes, nor should any buildings or portions thereof be occupied or used by other than authorized persons.

Civilian employees who are paid from appropriated funds should not be permitted to perform, during the hours for which they are paid from such funds, any work other than that authorized to be done for the government, or as otherwise ^prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV).