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NH Rev Stat § 110-B:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:7 - Military Staff of the Governor.

    110-B:7 Military Staff of the Governor. –||I. The military staff of the governor shall consist of the adjutant general who shall be the chief of staff and 12 aides-de-camp. Four shall be detailed from the national guard and 4 others shall be appointed from the reserve components of the armed forces of the United States. The remaining 4 may be appointed from officers or former officers of the United States army, navy, marine corps, coast guard or air force, or of the national guard or of the various officers' reserves components or from civilian life.||II. Officers detailed from the national guard shall retain their existing rank and shall remain subject to duty except as their services may be required by the governor as staff members. Officers or enlisted persons or former officers or enlisted persons appointed from the army, navy, air force, marine corps, coast guard, or the various military reserve corps, shall be of the rank held or last held by them in these organizations; except that, if the rank last held by a former member of the army, marine corps or air force is lower than major, such former member shall be commissioned in the rank of major; and that, if the rank last held by a former member of the navy or coast guard is lower than lieutenant-commander, such former member shall be commissioned in the rank of lieutenant-commander. Except as provided above, civilians appointed to the military staff of the governor shall be commissioned in the rank of major or its naval equivalent but shall not thereby be exempted from military duties. The 12 aides-de-camp shall hold office during the pleasure and not exceeding the term of office of the governor appointing them.||III. As soon as may be after each state general election, the governor-elect shall submit to the governor and council the names of those persons not then officers of the militia whom the governor-elect shall wish to appoint to the military staff; and it shall thereupon be the duty of the governor and council to commission such nominees as officers of the militia in the appropriate rank as prescribed in this section. Such commission shall take effect on the day the governor-elect takes office.||IV. The military staff of the governor shall perform such ceremonial functions and duties as the governor may prescribe.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:8-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:8-a - Rulemaking.

    110-B:8-a Rulemaking. –||All military and departmental regulations adopted under this chapter shall be exempt from the requirements of RSA 541-A.|||Source. 1985, 1:1. 2002, 248:6, eff. May 17, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:8-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:8-b - Deputy Adjutant General.

    110-B:8-b Deputy Adjutant General. –||The deputy adjutant general shall be appointed as provided in the constitution and the tenure of office shall be for 4 years or until the officer has reached the age of 65 years. At the time of appointment, the deputy adjutant general shall have had at least 5 years of service as a member of the New Hampshire national guard or United States armed forces, preceding the appointment and shall have at least attained the rank of major. The deputy adjutant general's salary shall be prescribed by law. The deputy adjutant general shall:||I. Assume full responsibility for the department of military affairs and veterans services in the absence of the adjutant general.||II. Assist the adjutant general to implement the department's duties and responsibilities.||III. Serve as principal liaison to senior military officials, various state and federal officials, the legislature, local governments, and community groups.||IV. Provide overall guidance and direction for state operations including business administration, facilities management, division of veterans services, the division of community based military programs, and the state veterans cemetery.|||Source. 1998, 81:2, eff. July 1, 1998. 2019, 273:4, eff. Sept. 17, 2019.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:9 - Staff for the National Guard.

    110-B:9 Staff for the National Guard. –||There shall be under the adjutant general one assistant adjutant general who shall be director of the army national guard and one assistant adjutant general who shall be director of the air national guard, both of whom shall have at least the rank of brigadier general. Under the adjutant general, there shall also be a staff for the national guard. The staff shall consist of such officers as shall be designated in permanent orders and shall perform such functions and duties as the adjutant general may prescribe.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:10 - Emergency Purchases for the National Guard.

    110-B:10 Emergency Purchases for the National Guard. –||Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, in emergencies, the adjutant general may purchase such necessities as are required for the immediate use and care of any command of the national guard; and the governor shall draw his warrant for the necessary sums from any funds not otherwise appropriated.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:11 - State Retired List.

    110-B:11 State Retired List. –||I. Any commissioned officer or warrant officer of the national guard who is retired by reason of age or otherwise shall be transferred to the state retired list by the governor.||II. Upon the recommendation of the adjutant general, the governor may order any person on the state retired list to active duty for the purpose of serving on military courts or boards or performing staff duty in or with the national guard, and, in time of emergency, to perform any military duty. In any such case, the person so ordered shall rank in his grade from the date of such order.||III. Time spent on the state retired list shall not be credited in the computation of seniority, pay, length of service for promotion, or otherwise, or any of the privileges and exemptions pertaining thereto; except that, time served on active duty by order of the governor shall be so credited.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:12 - Service Without the State.

    110-B:12 Service Without the State. –||The governor may order the national guard or any part thereof to serve outside the borders of this state or of the United States in order to perform military duty of every description and to participate in parades, reviews, conferences, encampments, maneuvers or other training, and to participate in small arms and other military competitions and to attend service schools. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to members of the national guard while serving outside the state and while going to and returning from such service outside the state in like manner and to the same extent as while serving within the state.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:13 - Army National Guard.

    110-B:13 Army National Guard. –||The army national guard shall comprise the army units which are a part of the New Hampshire national guard at the time of the enactment of this chapter and such other army units as may be organized hereafter, including the personnel who are enlisted, appointed or commissioned therein. When authorized by the laws and regulations of the United States, such personnel may include females.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:14 - Air National Guard.

    110-B:14 Air National Guard. –||The air national guard shall comprise the air units which are a part of the New Hampshire national guard at the time of the enactment of this chapter and such other air units as may be organized hereafter, including the personnel who are enlisted, appointed or commissioned therein. Any aviation units of the army national guard shall not be considered air units within the meaning of this chapter. When authorized by the laws and regulations of the United States, such personnel may include females.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:15 - Organization and Training.

    110-B:15 Organization and Training. –||I. The national guard shall be organized, armed, disciplined, governed, administered and trained as prescribed by the laws of the United States and by this chapter and the regulations issued thereunder.||II. Unless the same shall be furnished by the United States, the state shall provide adequate armory accommodations, bases, camps, target ranges and other facilities and shall maintain the same for units of the army national guard and of the air national guard allotted to the state under the laws of the United States, accepted by the governor and organized under the authority of this chapter.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:16 - Assemblies, Annual Training and Other Duty.

    110-B:16 Assemblies, Annual Training and Other Duty. –||I. Members and units of the national guard shall assemble for drill or other equivalent training, instruction or duties during each year and shall participate in field training, encampments, maneuvers, schools, conferences or other similar duties as may be prescribed by the laws of the United States and of the state and the regulations issued thereunder.||II. Within the amount appropriated therefor, the adjutant general may prescribe and order the number of days, if any, for assemblies for drills or other equivalent training, instructions or duties to be performed annually by members of the national guard for which they may receive pay.||III. Within the amount appropriated therefor, the adjutant general may prescribe and order the number of days, if any, of field training, encampments, maneuvers, schools, conferences or other similar duties to be performed by members of the national guard for which they may receive pay and allowances.||IV. Members of the national guard may be ordered by the governor or under his authority to perform special duty, including duty in a judicial proceeding conducted pursuant to this chapter or as a member of or in any other capacity with any military board or as an investigating officer or as a medical examiner or as a judge advocate in the performance of legal services in any suit, action or proceeding. In all cases where a member of the national guard judge advocate staff serves as lead counsel in a New Hampshire state court, such counsel shall be a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association.|||Source. 1981, 434:1. 2012, 188:2, eff. June 11, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:17 - Organization of Units.

    110-B:17 Organization of Units. –||The governor shall conform the organization of the New Hampshire national guard, including the composition of all units thereof, to the organization of national guard units prescribed by the laws of the United States and the regulations issued thereunder. For that purpose, the governor is authorized to organize, reorganize or disband any unit, headquarters or staff therein, to increase or decrease the number of commissioned officers, warrant officers, and non-commissioned officers of any grade therein, and to increase or decrease the strength of the New Hampshire national guard.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:18 - Inactive National Guard.

    110-B:18 Inactive National Guard. –||The inactive national guard shall consist of the persons commissioned, appointed or enlisted therein at the time of the enactment of this chapter, such officers and enlisted persons as may be hereafter transferred thereto from the army national guard and the air national guard, and such persons as may be enlisted therein under the laws of the United States and the regulations issued thereunder.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:19 - Credit for Active Federal Service.

    110-B:19 Credit for Active Federal Service. –||For all purposes under this chapter, members of the national guard who entered the active military service of the United States in time of war or under a call, order or draft by the president or who hereafter enter such service under like conditions or who enter and serve on active duty in the military service of the United States in time of peace and who thereafter return to the military service of the state shall be entitled to credit for time so served as if such service had been rendered to the state.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:20 - Qualifications of Officers, Warrant Officers and Enlisted Personnel.

    110-B:20 Qualifications of Officers, Warrant Officers and Enlisted Personnel. –||I. No person shall be appointed or promoted as a commissioned officer or warrant officer of the national guard unless such person shall have passed such examination as to his physical, moral and professional qualifications as may be prescribed by this chapter and the regulations issued thereunder.||II. Any person who has been dismissed or dishonorably discharged from the organized militia of this or any other state or from the armed forces of the United States and has not been restored to duty, or any commissioned officer or warrant officer who was discharged from the national guard as a result of the findings of an efficiency examining board or whose resignation from the national guard was accepted by the governor at a time when such officer was under arrest or under charges for the commission of an offense involving moral turpitude or punishable by a court-martial, shall not be eligible for appointment as a commissioned officer or warrant officer in the national guard.||III. Every commissioned officer or warrant officer shall take and subscribe the oaths of office prescribed for officers of the national guard by the laws of this state.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:21 - Examining Boards.

    110-B:21 Examining Boards. –||I. The efficiency, moral character and general fitness for retention in the national guard of any commissioned officer or warrant officer may be investigated and determined by an efficiency examining board. Such board shall, whenever practicable, be composed of officers senior in rank to the officer under investigation.||II. The physical fitness for further service of any commissioned officer or warrant officer in the national guard may be investigated and determined by a medical examining board of officers.||III. Efficiency and medical examining boards shall be appointed by the governor upon the recommendation of the adjutant general.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:22 - Powers and Procedure.

    110-B:22 Powers and Procedure. –||Efficiency and medical examining boards appointed by the governor are hereby vested with the powers of courts of inquiry and courts-martial. Such boards shall follow the practice and procedure prescribed by applicable laws of the United States and the state and the regulations issued thereunder. Any officer ordered to appear before such board shall be allowed to appear in person or represented by counsel, to cross-examine witnesses and to call witnesses in his or her behalf. The individual shall be allowed full access to records pertinent to the case and shall be furnished with copies of the same. Failure to obey an order to appear before such examining board shall be sufficient ground for a finding by the board that the officer or warrant officer be discharged. If the findings of such board are unfavorable to an officer and are approved under the applicable statutes and regulations of the United States, if approval be thereby required, the governor, if he approves the findings of the board, shall relieve the officer from duty and shall give the individual a discharge in such form as may be appropriate; provided that, if the discharge of an officer is recommended solely because of physical inability to perform active service, such officer may be transferred to the state retired list in accordance with this chapter.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:23 - Loss of Commission, Dismissal.

    110-B:23 Loss of Commission, Dismissal. –||The commission of any officer or warrant officer absent without leave for 3 months may be vacated by the governor upon the recommendation of the adjutant general. An officer who shall have been absent without leave for a period of 6 months or more shall be dismissed by the governor.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:24 - Resignation.

    110-B:24 Resignation. –||An officer or warrant officer of the national guard may tender a resignation of office at any time. If the resignation is accepted, the officer shall receive an honorable discharge; but, if the officer tendering the resignation shall be under arrest or if charges have been preferred for the commission of an offense involving moral turpitude or punishable by court-martial, the individual may be given a discharge in such form as may be prescribed by regulations.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:25 - Enlistment in the National Guard.

    110-B:25 Enlistment in the National Guard. –||The qualifications for enlistment and re-enlistment, the periods of enlistment, re-enlistment and voluntary extension of enlistment, the period of service, the form of contract to be executed, the oath to be taken, and the manner and form of transfer and discharge of enlisted personnel of the national guard shall be those prescribed by the applicable laws of the United States and of this state and by the regulations issued thereunder.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:26 - Non-Commissioned Officer.

    110-B:26 Non-Commissioned Officer. –||All non-commissioned officers of the national guard shall be appointed in the discretion of the appointing officer upon the nomination of the officer under whose immediate command they are to serve. Appointing officers shall be designated in regulations issued pursuant to this chapter. The appointment of a non-commissioned officer may be terminated as prescribed by regulations issued pursuant to this chapter.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:27 - Discharge of Enlisted Persons.

    110-B:27 Discharge of Enlisted Persons. –||I. An enlisted person may be discharged from the national guard prior to the expiration of his term of enlistment under such conditions as may be prescribed by applicable laws of the United States and of this state and by regulations issued thereunder.||II. An enlisted person discharged from the national guard shall receive a discharge in writing in such form and of such type or classification as may be prescribed by applicable laws of the United States and of this state and by regulations issued thereunder.|||Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 110-B:28-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title VIII - Public Defense and Veterans' Affairs|Title 110-B - Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services|Section 110-B:28-a - Rules for the Use of Force.

    110-B:28-a Rules for the Use of Force. –||Use of force by personnel, to include state employees and contractor personnel while conducting security functions at National Guard facilities; and any employee and member of the New Hampshire National Guard, in a duty status, shall be in accordance with adjutant general issued guidance and procedures, which, except for mission specific rules for the use of force, shall be consistent with applicable United States Department of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States Army, or United States Air Force unclassified directives and instructions on the standing rules for use of force.|||Source. 2021, 18:2, eff. July 5, 2021.|