KRS § 38.030 — KY Code / Title V / Chapter 38 / Section 38.030
38.030 Ordering troops into state active duty -- Nontactical direction by local civil officers -- Disability compensation for injury or disease arising from state active duty
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38.030 Ordering troops into state active duty -- Nontactical direction by local civil

officers -- Disability compensation for injury or disease arising from state

active duty.

(1) Only the Governor shall have the authority to order units and members of the

Kentucky National Guard into state active duty.

(a) The Governor may order units and individual members of the Kentucky

National Guard into state active duty for any of the following purposes:

1. Protecting lives and property;

2. Assisting in disaster relief or other humanitarian efforts;

3. Preventing or suppressing riot or civil disorder;

4. Enforcing the laws of the Commonwealth; or

5. Other similar purpose.

(b) In addition to ordering personnel and units to state active duty, the Governor

may order other members of the Kentucky National Guard to participate in or

perform duty in support of state active duty missions notwithstanding the fact

that they are then entitled to receive federal pay and allowances pursuant to

Title 32 of the United States Code. The personnel may be ordered to perform

state active duty support missions either prior to, during, or after the time that

state active duty missions are planned or performed.

(c) Members of the National Guard who are ordered to perform duty as provided

in subsection (1)(b) of this section while they are entitled to receive federal

pay under Title 32 of the United States Code shall have all of the powers,

immunities, and benefits conferred by law upon persons ordered to state active

duty except that they shall receive no additional pay for the duty and the

provisions of KRS 38.235 shall not apply to them. The powers, immunities,

and benefits conferred upon those persons shall be in addition to, and not in

place of, those powers, immunities, and benefits provided under federal law.

(d) Any member of the National Guard may, with his consent, be ordered to state

active duty without pay.

(2) The Governor may direct the commanding officer of the military forces ordered to

state active duty to report to any civil officer, including, but not limited to, judge,

county judge/executive, mayor, sheriff, or head of law enforcement or other public

agency in whose jurisdiction the state active duty mission is to be performed. The

civil officer may advise the commanding officer regarding the specific objectives to

be accomplished by the military force, but the tactical direction and disposition of

the troops and the particular means to be employed to accomplish the mission shall

be left solely to the commanding officer of the National Guard.

(3) Troops shall not be relieved from active field service except by order of the

Governor.

(4) National Guard officers, enlisted soldiers, and airmen who are temporarily or

permanently disabled as a direct result of an injury or disease arising out of the

performance of an act in the line of duty while on state active duty shall, at the

discretion of the Governor, remain on paid state active duty status until a competent

medical authority releases them to return to their normal activities or the Governor

deems it appropriate to relieve the individual from state active duty status.

Compensation paid to the soldier or airman by the department shall be adjusted and

maintained at the soldier's or airman's regular rate of active duty pay; however,

compensation paid by the department shall be reduced by the amount of payments

received from workers' compensation insurance, Social Security benefits, and other

federal or state-financed disability programs designed to supplement the soldier's or

airman's income. Final compensation shall not be reduced by payments for medical

care.