§ 30-3-1. Composition and organization. The national guard shall consist of such number of federally recognized general officers, officers, warrant officers, and enlisted persons, duly commissioned, warranted, or enlisted therein, including officers and enlisted persons of the staff corps and departments, and organized as to branch or arm of service into such federally recognized units, […]
§ 30-3-10. Appointment and assignment of officers. The governor shall appoint, commission, and assign commissioned officers and shall appoint, warrant, and assign warrant officers of the national guard, upon the recommendation of the adjutant general. History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 56; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-10.
§ 30-3-11. Classes from which commissioned officers selected. Persons hereafter commissioned as officers of the national guard shall be selected from the following classes: (1) Officers or enlisted persons of the national guard; (2) Officers, active or retired, reserve officers, and former officers of the United States army, air force, navy, marine corps, or coast […]
§ 30-3-12. Oath of officers. Commissioned and warrant officers of the national guard shall take and subscribe to the oath of office prescribed by the laws of the United States and any other oath prescribed by the laws of the United States, the governor, or the law of this state. History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. […]
§ 30-3-13. Previous military experience of officers — Retirement — Vacancies. All commissioned officers of the staff corps and departments, hereafter appointed, shall have had previous military experience, except chaplains, officers of the judge advocate general’s corps, and medical corps officers. They shall hold their positions until they shall have reached the age of sixty […]
§ 30-3-14. Qualifications of medical officers, judge advocates, and chaplains. In the national guard, all commissioned officers of the medical corps must be physicians or surgeons licensed to practice in any state or the District of Columbia in the United States of America; all commissioned officers of the judge advocate general’s department must comply with […]
§ 30-3-15. Qualifications of warrant officers. The governor will be the judge as to the character and professional qualifications of an applicant for appointment as warrant officer. The standards of physical examination will be the same as for officers. History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 61; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-15.
§ 30-3-16. Resignation of officers. Resignations of commissioned offices or warrant officers of the national guard shall be in writing and directed to the adjutant general and transmitted through and by all intermediate commanders, who shall indorse the resignations with their approval or disapproval, and shall not be effective until accepted by the governor. No […]
§ 30-3-17. Uniforms and equipment of officers. Every commissioned officer and every warrant officer of the national guard shall provide himself or herself with the arms, uniforms, and equipment prescribed and approved by the governor. History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 63; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-17; P.L. 2016, ch. 511, art. 2, § 28.
§ 30-3-18. Allowances for guard officers. Every commissioned officer and every warrant officer of the national guard, upon original appointment and upon receipt of federal recognition, may be allowed and paid the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) upon the actual procurement by him or her of the prescribed arms, uniforms, and equipment, and every commissioned […]
§ 30-3-19. Allowances for staff officers. Each member of the staff of the commander-in-chief provided for in § 30-2-2 shall be allowed and paid the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) upon the actual procurement by him or her of the arms, uniform, and equipment prescribed and every staff member who shall, in a twelve-month […]
§ 30-3-2. Emergency increase. The governor shall have power in case of war, insurrection, invasion, riot, public catastrophe or calamity, or imminent danger thereof, to increase the national guard beyond the maximum now established by law and to organize it with the proper officers, as the exigencies of the situation may require, if authorized by […]
§ 30-3-20. Relative rank of officers. The date of the appointment of a commissioned officer of the national guard shall be expressed in his or her commission and shall be considered as the date thereof. Commissioned officers shall rank according to the date of their commissions. Between officers of the same grade and date of […]
§ 30-3-21. Efficiency boards. The capacity and general fitness for service of any commissioned officer or warrant officer of the national guard, may be investigated by an efficiency board. The board shall be appointed by the governor and shall consist of three (3) commissioned officers of the national guard senior in rank, when possible, to […]
§ 30-3-22. Physical fitness boards. The physical fitness for service of commissioned officers or warrant officers of the national guard shall be determined by a board of five (5) medical persons, who shall be appointed by the governor for that purpose. Two (2) of the medical persons shall be selected by the governor and two […]
§ 30-3-23. Dismissal of officers. No commissioned officer of the national guard shall be dismissed from the service, except by reason of a sentence of dismissal of a general court-martial, which sentence is approved by the governor. No warrant officer of the national guard shall be dismissed from the service except by reason of a […]
§ 30-3-24. Discharge of officers. A commissioned officer or warrant officer of the national guard may be discharged and his or her commission or warrant terminated, by reason of death; by acceptance by proper authority of resignation; on account of inefficiency; on account of physical disability; absence without leave for three (3) months; dismissal pursuant […]
§ 30-3-25. Revocation of commission or warrant — Right to trial by court-martial. The governor may revoke and cancel the commission of any commissioned officer or the warrant of any warrant officers in his or her discretion. The revocation and cancellation shall not be effectual if, within ten (10) days after receiving notice thereof, the […]
§ 30-3-26. Unassigned list of officers. The adjutant general shall maintain a list to be known as the unassigned list. A commissioned officer or warrant officer of the national guard may be transferred to the unassigned list: (1) Pending the acceptance of his or her resignation; (2) If the officer shall have been absent without […]
§ 30-3-27. Qualifications of enlisted persons. Hereafter the qualifications for enlistment and reenlistment in the national guard; period or periods of enlistment; form of enlistment contract to be signed; and oath of enlistment to be subscribed to; shall be as provided by the laws of the United States and the regulations pertaining to the national […]
