48-201. Composition and organization; term “Kansas state guard” defined; tax exemptions to instrumentalities of armed forces. The Kansas army and air national guard shall consist of such units as the governor of Kansas may from time to time authorize to be formed, all to be formed and organized in accordance with the laws governing the […]
48-202. Staff officers; qualifications; vacancies. All staff officers of the Kansas national guard, including officers of the pay, inspection, subsistence, and medical departments, hereafter appointed shall have had previous military experience, and shall hold their positions until they shall have reached the age of sixty-four years, unless retired prior to that time by reason of […]
48-203. Commander in chief; chief of staff; rank; qualifications; compensation; aides-de-camp. The governor shall be commander in chief of the militia and shall have supreme command of the military forces of the state while in the service of the state or until they are ordered or accepted into the services of the United States. While […]
48-204. Adjutant general; powers and duties; appointment of security and law enforcement officers. (a) The adjutant general shall: (1) Be in control of the military department of the state and subordinate only to the governor in matters pertaining to the department; (2) have general supervision over all the subordinate military departments, to include the department […]
48-205. Adjutant general; special assistants; judge advocate general; compensation; finance and disbursing officer; employees. The adjutant general shall have immediate charge of the state arsenal under the supervision of the governor. The adjutant general shall have charge and care of all state and United States military property for which the state is responsible and shall […]
48-206. Duties of finance and disbursing officer; vouchers and warrants. The finance and disbursing officer, shall perform such duties in connection with the Kansas national guard as usage and the regulations of the army of the United States assign to the finance and disbursing departments. He or she will, pursuant to the orders of the […]
48-208. Appointments and commissions. Officers shall be appointed and commissioned by the governor alone, except that appointment of general officers shall be subject to confirmation by the senate as provided in K.S.A. 75-4315b, and amendments thereto. Except as provided by K.S.A. 46-2601, and amendments thereto, no person appointed as a general officer shall exercise any […]
48-209. Terms of officers; order to active service by governor, when; rank; compensation. All officers of the Kansas army and air national guard in the line and in all of the departments and corps, shall hold their positions until they have reached the age of sixty-four (64) years unless the same shall have been terminated […]
48-210. Enlistments; standard physical examinations; medical fee. All enlistments in the Kansas army and air national guard shall be in the form and for such period as is now or may hereafter be prescribed by federal law and regulations. Every recruit, before he or she shall be enlisted or re-enlisted in the Kansas army or […]
48-211. Discharge or retirement for disability; retired list; exemption from jury duty, when. Enlisted personnel of the Kansas army and air national guard who are unable, on account of permanent physical disability, to perform the duties required of them shall be discharged from the military service of the state under such regulations as shall be […]
48-212. Oath of officers and enlisted persons. Each commissioned officer, before entering upon the duties of his or her office, and each enlisted person, shall be required to take and subscribe to such oath as is now or may hereafter be required by federal law and regulation. History: L. 1901, ch. 255, § 16; L. […]
48-213. Federal requirements applicable to officers; minimum age; vacancies in commissioned grades. The commissioned and noncommissioned officers throughout all of the departments, corps, regiments and lesser organizations shall conform to those of similar organizations in the army of the United States: Provided, however, That the minimum age for commissioning of officers is reduced to the […]
48-214. Military advisory board; duties. There shall be a Kansas military board consisting of the adjutant general, who shall be recorder, the judge advocate general, the three senior commanders of the Kansas army national guard and the senior commander of the Kansas air national guard; there may be three additional members appointed at the discretion […]
48-215. Meetings of the state military board; compensation and allowances. The state military board shall meet as the adjutant general deems necessary, for the transaction of military business. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Members of the state military board attending meetings of such board, or attending […]
48-216. Uniforms, arms and equipment. Every commissioned officer of the Kansas national guard shall provide himself or herself with a suitable uniform, arms and equipments within sixty days from date of the commission; but every noncommissioned officer, musician and private shall be furnished with a uniform, arms and equipments free of expense, as hereinafter provided. […]
48-217. Use of ordnance or supplies issued by the United States; ammunition for salutes. No ordnance or quartermaster’s supplies or other public property belonging to the United States for which the state of Kansas is responsible, issued to the state and charged against its quota for providing arms and equipments for the militia, shall be […]
48-218. Use and storage of property. No officer or member of the Kansas national guard having property in charge shall loan for private use, or permit to be used for any other than the legitimate purpose intended, any public property that the officer may be responsible for to the state. All property issued to a […]
48-219. Penalty for unlawful acts affecting property. Whoever shall secrete, sell, dispose of, or offer for sale, or in any manner pawn or pledge, or retain or refuse to deliver to an officer entitled to take possession thereof, any uniform, arms or equipment, the property of the United States, which shall have been secured under […]
48-220. Payment of state allowance to finance and disbursing officer of national guard, state guard or armory board. The state shall pay annually in monthly payments to the finance and disbursing officer in the adjutant general’s department, or such officer as may be detailed by the adjutant general as finance and disbursing officer of the […]
48-221. Unit training assemblies; application of federal rules and regulations; record of attendance; trial of personnel absent without leave. Each and every organization of the Kansas national guard or the Kansas air national guard authorized by and organized under this act shall assemble for a minimum of forty-eight (48) unit training assemblies annually, for training […]
