§ 58-1-410. Reserve Organization
During such time as the state guard is not activated, the adjutant general is authorized and empowered, on the approval of the governor, to set up and maintain a reserve organization of the state guard upon a voluntary basis under such system as to the adjutant general may seem most feasible in order to provide […]
§ 58-1-411. Compensation
Members of the state guard when assigned to state military duty by the commander in chief, or when ordered to active state service pursuant to § 58-1-106, shall be paid from the funds appropriated, or otherwise legally made available to the military department, at the rate of pay and allowances as prescribed by the adjutant […]
§ 58-1-412. Governor’s Authority and Power to Call Members of the State Guard to Active State Duty With the Member’s Consent
The governor is authorized and empowered to call members of the state guard to active state duty with the member’s consent, for the performance of any official duty in connection with state guard activities. Inactive reserve status may include voluntary unpaid state service for assistance to local authorities during times of disaster, or other times […]
§ 58-1-401. Governor Authorized to Enlist State Guard
Whenever the president of the United States shall call any part of the national guard of this state into active federal service, the governor is authorized to enlist, organize, maintain, equip and discipline a volunteer defense force, other than the national guard, to be known as the Tennessee state guard.
§ 58-1-402. Membership of State Guard — Distinct From National Guard — Service Outside State or Relating to Elections — Limitation on Consecutive Years of Advisory Service
The state guard shall be composed of such individuals between sixteen (16) and seventy-five (75) years of age as shall volunteer for service therein. The state guard shall be in addition to and distinct from the national guard organized under existing law. The organization shall not be required to serve outside the boundaries of this […]
§ 58-1-403. — 58-1-404 [reserved.]
The governor is authorized to appoint and commission necessary officers for the state guard; to prescribe rules and regulations governing the enlistment, organization, administration, pay, equipment, discipline and discharge of the personnel of the state guard; to obtain by grant, requisition, or purchase such necessary arms and equipment as may be secured from the department […]
§ 58-1-406. Liability to Federal Military Service Not Affected
No person shall solely by reason of enlistment or commission in any state forces be exempt from military service under the law of the United States.
§ 58-1-407. Oath of Members
Each and every member joining the state guard shall, in addition to the oath required by law to be taken by officers, take and subscribe to the following oath: “I do solemnly swear that I will well and faithfully perform my duties as a member of the Tennessee state guard to the best of my […]
§ 58-1-408. Organization, Composition and Strength
The governor may organize, activate, increase, change, divide, consolidate, disband, reactivate or reorganize any unit, headquarters, staff or cadre of the state guard, and may prescribe the composition and types of units, the type of organization and the system of drill or instruction to be used in training such units; and for such purposes the […]
§ 58-1-409. Duties, Privileges and Immunities
All duties imposed by the military law or other statutes of the state or by regulations issued hereunder, upon units, commissioned officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel respectively of the national guard are hereby imposed upon the units, commissioned officers, warrant officers and enlisted personnel respectively of the state guard, and all rights, privileges and […]