Any applicant for enlistment in the United States Army who has received four or more civil convictions or other adverse dispositions for minor nontraffic offenses. requires a waiver. The waiver approval authority is the recruiting battalion commander, acting commander, or executive officer.
The following are typical minor nontraffic offenses:
- Assault, fighting or battery (no confinement) (less than $500 fine or restitution).
- Carrying concealed weapon (other than firearm); possession of brass knuckles.
- Contempt of court for minor nontraffic offenses.
- Criminal or malicious mischief (less than $500 fine or restitution and no confinement).
- 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 the peace.
- Drinking alcoholic beverages on public transportation.
- Drunk in public. m. Dumping refuse near highway.
- Illegal betting or gambling; operating illegal handbook, raffle, lottery, or punchboard; cockfighting.
- 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.
- Unlawful manufacture, sale, possession, or consumption of liquor in public place.
- Littering. t. Loitering.
- Committing a nuisance. v. Poaching.
- Purchase, possession, or consumption of alcohol beverages or tobacco products by minor.
- Removing property from public grounds.
- Removing property under lien.
- Robbing an orchard. aa. Shooting from highway. ab. Solicitation (other than for commission of a serious criminal misconduct, prostitution or sexual offense).
- Throwing glass or other material in roadway.
- Trespass (noncriminal).
- Unlawful assembly. af. Using or wearing unlawful emblem/identification.
- Vagrancy. ah. Vandalism (less than $500 fine or restitution and no confinement).
- Violation of fireworks law.
- Violation of fish and game laws.
- Violation of leash laws.
