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RI Gen L § 30-2-16 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-2 - Organization and Command of Military and Naval Forces|Section 30-2-16 - Assistant adjutants general.

§ 30-2-16. Assistant adjutants general.There shall be two (2) assistant adjutants general with rank not to exceed that of brigadier general, one of whom shall be detailed by the adjutant general, with the approval of the governor, from the federally recognized officers, or from the retired officers, of the Rhode Island army national guard, and one of whom shall be detailed by the adjutant general, with the approval of the governor, from the federally recognized officers, or from the retired officers, of the Rhode Island air national guard; provided, however, that, when the Rhode Island national guard is in the active military service of the United States, there shall be only one assistant adjutant general, who shall be detailed by the adjutant general, with the approval of the governor, from the officers of the Rhode Island state guard. These assistant adjutants general shall hold office at the pleasure of the adjutant general and shall serve as commanding officers for Rhode Island code of military justice purposes. They shall perform such duties as may be assigned to them by the adjutant general in addition to their other duties in the national guard, if any. In the absence from the state of the adjutant general, the assistant adjutant general detailed from the army national guard shall be authorized to perform all duties provided by law or regulation for the adjutant general.History of Section.P.L. 1939, ch. 660, § 14; P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 31; G.L. 1956, § 30-2-16; P.L. 1973, ch. 272, § 1; P.L. 2013, ch. 51, § 1; P.L. 2013, ch. 63, § 1.
RI Gen L § 30-2-17 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-2 - Organization and Command of Military and Naval Forces|Section 30-2-17 - Quartermaster.

§ 30-2-17. Quartermaster.(a) The governor shall appoint, designate, or detail, upon recommendation of the adjutant general, subject to the approval of the secretary of defense, an officer of the national guard who shall be regarded as property and fiscal officer of the United States, and state property officer. He or she shall receipt and account for all funds and property belonging to the United States in possession of the national guard and shall make such returns and reports concerning the funds and property as may be required by the Secretary of Defense.(b) The United States property and fiscal officer shall be designated as the state quartermaster and shall issue and be held accountable for, under the adjutant general, all state military property and shall make such property returns and reports of the military property as the adjutant general may direct.(c) The governor shall require the state quartermaster to give bond to the state in such sum as the governor may require and with good and sufficient surety, to be approved by the governor to faithfully discharge the duties of the office of the state quartermaster. The costs of the bond is to be paid for by state funds.(d) The general assembly shall annually appropriate such a sum as it may deem necessary to compensate the property and fiscal officer, provided that no person receiving annual compensation from the state for other service shall be paid as property and fiscal officer.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 35; G.L. 1956, § 30-2-17.
RI Gen L § 30-2-18 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-2 - Organization and Command of Military and Naval Forces|Section 30-2-18 - Annual report of adjutant general.

§ 30-2-18. Annual report of adjutant general.The adjutant general shall annually make a report of the militia to the general assembly at its January session, and also present a copy of the report to the governor on or before the first day of January or at such other time as he or she shall direct. The report shall contain a detailed account of all moneys appropriated by the state and expended for the militia, and also, as far as such details are available to him or her, of all other money expended for the militia from whatever sources these moneys may be derived, and showing all these sources.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 32; G.L. 1956, § 30-2-18.
RI Gen L § 30-2-19 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-2 - Organization and Command of Military and Naval Forces|Section 30-2-19 - Care of military property - Annual inventory - Rental of armories.

§ 30-2-19. Care of military property — Annual inventory — Rental of armories.The adjutant general shall attend to the care, preservation, and repairing of the arms, ammunition, equipment, clothing, and all other military property belonging to the state, except insofar as this duty has been reposed in the department of administration. He or she shall annually make an inventory of the military property of the state and present a copy of the inventory to the governor on or before the first day of January, or at such other times as the governor shall direct. The inventory shall show, in detail, the disposition of all arms, ammunition, equipment, clothing, and other military property on hand or issued. The adjutant general is hereby empowered to rent armories in this state for periods not exceeding two (2) weeks rent free or for whatever rental and conditions and for whatever purpose the adjutant general, in his or her sole discretion, shall deem proper.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 33; G.L. 1956, § 30-2-19; P.L. 1970, ch. 151, § 1.
RI Gen L § 30-2-20 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-2 - Organization and Command of Military and Naval Forces|Section 30-2-20 - Annual inspection of armories and property.

§ 30-2-20. Annual inspection of armories and property.The adjutant general shall annually cause to be made an inspection of the armories of the militia, and of the arms, equipments, uniforms, and other property in the possession of the militia.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 34; G.L. 1956, § 30-2-20.
RI Gen L § 30-2-21 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-2 - Organization and Command of Military and Naval Forces|Section 30-2-21 - Seniority list of officers.

§ 30-2-21. Seniority list of officers.The adjutant general shall, as part of his or her annual report, annually publish a list showing the seniority of officers, with the dates of their commissions or warrants.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 36; G.L. 1956, § 30-2-21.
RI Gen L § 30-2-22 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-2 - Organization and Command of Military and Naval Forces|Section 30-2-22 - Publication of laws and regulations - Forms, stationery, and postage.

§ 30-2-22. Publication of laws and regulations — Forms, stationery, and postage.The adjutant general may, when necessary, cause the militia laws and regulations of the state, together with such parts of the Constitution, laws, and regulations of the United States, as relate thereto, as he or she deems necessary, to be prepared, procured, printed, and distributed to the officers of the militia and shall also prepare, procure, and issue all printing, stationery, blank books, blanks, forms, notices, and postage, required to carry into effect the provisions of chapters 1 — 14 of this title and the proper administration of the militia. All books, blanks, stationery, and postage issued by the adjutant general shall be receipted for by the officer receiving them, to be held or accounted for by him or her as public property. In the event of the removal from office of the receipting officer, this property, when required by the adjutant general, shall be delivered to his or her successor, returned to the adjutant general, or otherwise satisfactorily accounted for.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 37; G.L. 1956, § 30-2-22.
RI Gen L § 30-3-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-1 - Composition and organization.

§ 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, organizations, corps, departments, or otherwise as shall be authorized by the laws of the United States and the regulations issued thereunder.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 45; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-1.
RI Gen L § 30-3-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-2 - Emergency increase.

§ 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 the laws of the United States.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 46; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-2.
RI Gen L § 30-3-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-3 - Protection of designations.

§ 30-3-3. Protection of designations.During the absence of organizations of the national guard in the service of the United States, their designation shall not be given to, or used by, any other organization.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 47; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-3.
RI Gen L § 30-3-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-4 - Personnel of disbanded organizations.

§ 30-3-4. Personnel of disbanded organizations.Whenever any organization of the national guard is disbanded, the personnel thereof shall be disposed of in accordance with regulations.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 48; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-4.
RI Gen L § 30-3-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-5 - Minimum strength of organizations.

§ 30-3-5. Minimum strength of organizations.The commissioned or enlisted strength of any organization of the national guard shall not, without the consent of the President, be reduced below the minimum that shall be prescribed therefor by the President.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 49; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-5.
RI Gen L § 30-3-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-6 - Unit funds.

§ 30-3-6. Unit funds.Each unit of the Rhode Island national guard will be allowed the sum of one dollar ($1.00) per enlisted person per year to enable purchase of various supplies for use of each unit; provided, however, that no part of this fund shall be used to pay dues or assessments in any club or association. The sums so allowed shall be based upon the average membership in the units for the year ending June 30th in each year. The amount shall be paid to the commanding officer of the respective unit on July 1 of each year and placed in the unit fund. Expenditures from this fund shall be audited by the next higher headquarters every three (3) months.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 164; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-6.
RI Gen L § 30-3-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-7 - Appropriation for unit funds.

§ 30-3-7. Appropriation for unit funds.A sum to provide for § 30-3-6 is hereby annually appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the purpose of § 30-3-6; and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of this sum upon his or her receipt of properly authenticated vouchers.History of Section.P.L. 1949, ch. 2213, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-7.
RI Gen L § 30-3-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-8 - Inactive national guard.

§ 30-3-8. Inactive national guard.The inactive national guard shall consist of such headquarters, units, officers, and enlisted persons as are authorized and prescribed, administered, and governed pursuant to the laws of the United States and the regulations issued thereunder.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 50; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-8.
RI Gen L § 30-3-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-9 - Qualifications of officers.

§ 30-3-9. Qualifications of officers.Commissioned officers and warrant officers of the national guard hereafter appointed shall be citizens of the United States, between the ages of eighteen (18) and sixty (60) years, who shall have successfully passed such tests as to their moral, physical, and professional fitness as shall be prescribed by the laws of the United States and the regulations issued thereunder and as may be prescribed by the governor.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 55; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-9; P.L. 1976, ch. 23, § 1; P.L. 2006, ch. 559, § 1.
RI Gen L § 30-3-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-10 - Appointment and assignment of officers.

§ 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.
RI Gen L § 30-3-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-11 - Classes from which commissioned officers selected.

§ 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 guard, enlisted men and former enlisted persons of the United States army, air force, navy, marine corps, or coast guard who have received an honorable discharge therefrom;(3) Graduates of any of the United States military and naval academies;(4) Graduates of schools, colleges, universities, and officers' training camps, where they have received military instruction under the supervision of an officer of the armed forces on active duty who certified their fitness for appointment as commissioned officers;(5) For the technical branches or staff corps and departments, such other civilians as may be specially qualified for duty therein; and(6) Or otherwise, as the above classes shall be changed or altered by the laws of the United States and the regulations issued thereunder.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 57; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-11.
RI Gen L § 30-3-12 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-12 - Oath of officers.

§ 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. 3742, par. 58; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-12.
RI Gen L § 30-3-13 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-13 - Previous military experience of officers - Retirement - Vacancies.

§ 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 (60) years, unless retired prior to that time by reason of resignation or disability, or for cause to be determined by an efficiency board or a court-martial legally convened for that purpose. Vacancies among these officers shall be filled by appointment from the commissioned officers of the national guard or from such other civilians as may be specifically qualified for duty therein.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 59; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-13.
RI Gen L § 30-3-14 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-14 - Qualifications of medical officers, judge advocates, and chaplains.

§ 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 the provisions of Article II, Rule 2(d) of the Rhode Island Supreme Court Rules; all chaplains must be regularly ordained ministers of the gospel, and any provision as to prior military service shall not apply to these officers.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 60; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-14; P.L. 1989, ch. 206, § 1; P.L. 1991, ch. 90, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 92, § 1; P.L. 2011, ch. 111, § 1.
RI Gen L § 30-3-15 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-15 - Qualifications of warrant officers.

§ 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.
RI Gen L § 30-3-16 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-16 - Resignation of officers.

§ 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 officer shall be permitted to resign his or her commission who shall be under arrest, or against whom charges have been preferred; and no resignation shall be accepted until the officer tendering the resignation shall have furnished to the adjutant general satisfactory evidence that he or she has delivered all moneys in his or her hands as an officer, and all books and other property of the state or of the United States in his or her possession, to his or her next superior or inferior officer, authorized by law to receive them, and that his accounts for money or public property are correct, and that he or she is not indebted to the state.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 62; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-16.
RI Gen L § 30-3-17 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-17 - Uniforms and equipment of officers.

§ 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.
RI Gen L § 30-3-18 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-18 - Allowances for guard officers.

§ 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 officer and every warrant officer of the national guard who shall, in a twelve-month (12) period immediately preceding the first day of May in each year, have maintained and kept his or her prescribed arms, uniforms, and equipment in proper order, may annually, on the first day of May, be allowed and paid the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) or a proportionately less sum for any less period of time. The above sums shall be paid out of the appropriation for the support of the national guard upon the approval of the adjutant general, and upon his or her certification and certification by the intermediate commanders of the organizations that these officers have complied with the requirements of this section; provided, however, that when the national guard is in the active military service of the United States the provisions hereof, where applicable, shall apply to the commissioned officers and warrant officers of the Rhode Island state guard.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 63; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-18; P.L. 1993, ch. 138, art. 28, § 1.
RI Gen L § 30-3-19 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-19 - Allowances for staff officers.

§ 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 (12) period immediately preceding the first day of May in each year, have maintained and kept his or her prescribed arms, uniform, and equipment in proper order, shall annually, on the first day of May, be allowed and paid in addition to the sum set forth in § 30-3-18, the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) or a proportionately less sum for any less period of time. The above sum shall be paid out of the appropriation for the support of the national guard upon the approval of the adjutant general and upon his or her certification that these members have complied with the requirements of this section.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 63; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-19.
RI Gen L § 30-3-20 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense|Chapter 30-3 - National Guard|Section 30-3-20 - Relative rank of officers.

§ 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 appointment, where there has been no previous military service, the relative rank shall be determined by age, the elder taking precedence. When two (2) officers of the same grade are commissioned as of the same date, their rank shall be determined first, by the length of previous service as a commissioned officer, second, by age, the elder taking precedence.History of Section.P.L. 1956, ch. 3742, par. 64; G.L. 1956, § 30-3-20.