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AR Code § 12-61-120 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 1 - State Militia Generally|§ 12-61-120. Credit for war service

 For all purposes under this code, officers and enlisted personnel of the National Guard who entered the active service of the United States in time of war or under a call or draft by the President or who enters such service under like conditions shall be entitled to credit for time so served as if such service had been rendered in the National Guard.
AR Code § 12-61-121 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 1 - State Militia Generally|§ 12-61-121. Awards, medals, etc

 (a)  (1) The Governor is authorized to award in the name of the State of Arkansas any medal, ribbon, or decoration for any exceptional or meritorious service rendered by any member of the organized militia.  (2) These include, but are not limited to, the “Arkansas Commendation Medal”, the “Arkansas Distinguished Service Medal”, and the “Arkansas Star of Honor”.  (3) The Department of the Military is authorized to promulgate necessary rules to establish the criteria under which any medal, ribbon, or decoration may be awarded.    (b) Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Adjutant General that any service medal duly issued by the State of Arkansas, in accordance with the military rules, to a member of the organized militia, has been lost or stolen, he or she may, in his or her discretion, and upon such terms as he or she may impose upon written application of the person originally entitled to such medal, issue a duplicate thereof.
AR Code § 12-61-122 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 1 - State Militia Generally|§ 12-61-122. National Guard associations

 (a) The officers or noncommissioned officers or members of any unit or units of the organized militia may organize themselves into an association or associations.  (b) The association or associations may adopt bylaws not inconsistent with the statutes of the state and alter and amend the bylaws and may take and hold such real and personal property as may be necessary for the purposes of the association.
AR Code § 12-61-123 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 1 - State Militia Generally|§ 12-61-123. Bureau of War Records

 (a) The Adjutant General may, at his or her discretion and with such funds as may be appropriated by the General Assembly, establish a Bureau of War Records.  (b) The bureau shall function in close connection with the Arkansas State Archives and shall gather items of military history of the Arkansas Militia for exhibition.  (c) The Adjutant General may adopt such reasonable and necessary rules as may be necessary to accomplish this purpose.
AR Code § 12-61-124 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 1 - State Militia Generally|§ 12-61-124. National Guard Youth Challenge Program

 (a) The Adjutant General may, at his or her discretion and with such funds as may be appropriated by the General Assembly, or with such funds as may be provided by the United States, develop and implement a National Guard Youth Challenge Program for the purpose of providing training, education, health, welfare, rehabilitative, and other services to juveniles.  (b) The Adjutant General is authorized to enter into agreements, contracts, and memoranda of understanding with other state, federal, and local agencies, other persons, firms, and corporations for the purposes of providing training, education, health, welfare, rehabilitative, and other services to juveniles participating in the program.  (c) The Adjutant General may promulgate and issue such rules and other guidelines as may be necessary and proper to carry out the purposes and provisions of this section.  (d) [Repealed.]
AR Code § 12-61-125 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 1 - State Militia Generally|§ 12-61-125. National Guard Youth Challenge Program — Stipend

 (a) Juvenile participants in the Arkansas National Guard Youth Challenge Program at Camp Joseph T. Robinson receiving services from the Arkansas National Guard are authorized to receive a monetary stipend, not to exceed fifteen dollars ($15.00) per week to defray personal hygiene and other personal necessities, and a monetary stipend not to exceed two thousand two hundred dollars ($2,200) upon graduation from the program to defray costs for additional job training or education.  (b) Juvenile participants are authorized to receive uniforms and clothing items as determined by the staff to be appropriate for effective participation in outdoor activities.
AR Code § 12-61-126 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 1 - State Militia Generally|§ 12-61-126. National Guard Youth Challenge Program — Transportation

 Transportation to support Arkansas National Guard Youth Challenge Program activities for juvenile participants and staff may be provided by commercial lease or purchase of motor vehicles not to exceed six (6) vehicles.
AR Code § 12-61-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 2 - National Guard Generally|§ 12-61-201. Commanding general of the organized militia

 (a) The organized militia shall be commanded by a general officer who shall be federally recognized or qualified for federal recognition in a rank not higher than lieutenant general.  (b) He or she shall be responsible for the military efficiency of the Arkansas organized militia.
AR Code § 12-61-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 2 - National Guard Generally|§ 12-61-202. Army National Guard

 The land force of the organized militia shall be the Army National Guard as contemplated under the laws of the United States and shall comprise the army units which are a part of the Arkansas National Guard on February 12, 1969, and such other army units as may be allocated, accepted, and organized thereafter, including the personnel who are enlisted, appointed, or commissioned therein, provided that all persons who are members of the Army National Guard shall be federally recognized as such.
AR Code § 12-61-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 2 - National Guard Generally|§ 12-61-203. Air National Guard

 The air force of the organized militia shall be the Air National Guard as contemplated under the laws of the United States and shall comprise the air units which are a part of the Arkansas National Guard on February 12, 1969, and such other air units as may be allocated, accepted, and organized thereafter, including the personnel who are enlisted, appointed, or commissioned therein, provided that all persons who are members of the Air National Guard shall be federally recognized as such. The aviation units of the Army National Guard shall not be considered air units within the meaning of this code.
AR Code § 12-61-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 2 - National Guard Generally|§ 12-61-204. Inactive National Guard

 The inactive National Guard shall consist of the persons commissioned, appointed, or enlisted therein on February 12, 1969, such officers and enlisted persons as may be thereafter transferred thereto from the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard, and such persons as may be commissioned or enlisted therein under the laws of the United States and the regulations thereunder.
AR Code § 12-61-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 2 - National Guard Generally|§ 12-61-205. Discipline, organization, and training

 (a) The system of discipline and training of the National Guard shall conform generally to that of the United States Armed Forces as it is now or may hereafter be prescribed by the President of the United States and conform to the provisions of the laws of the United States, except as otherwise provided in this code or by the rules issued by the Governor.  (b) The forces of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard shall be organized, equipped, armed, disciplined, governed, administered, and trained as prescribed by the laws of the United States and by this code and the regulations and rules issued thereunder.  (c) Pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, 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 noncommissioned officers of any grade therein, and to increase or decrease the strength of the organized militia. However, no organization of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard, the members of which shall be entitled to and shall have received compensation under the provisions of the National Defense Act of 1916, as amended, shall be disbanded without the consent of the President of the United States, nor without such consent shall the commissioned or enlisted strength of any organization be reduced below the minimum that shall be prescribed therefor by the President of the United States.
AR Code § 12-61-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 2 - National Guard Generally|§ 12-61-206. Assemblies, annual training, and other duties

 (a) 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 each year as may be prescribed by the laws of the United States and of the state and the regulations and rules issued thereunder. However, no assembly of any such unit of the organized militia shall be ordered in time of peace for any day during which a general election shall be held, except in case of riot, invasion, or insurrection or imminent danger thereof.  (b) Within the amount appropriated therefor, the Adjutant General may prescribe and order the number of days, if any, for assemblies or drills or other equivalent training, instruction, or duties to be performed annually by members of the National Guard for which they may receive pay and allowances.  (c) 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.  (d) Members of the National Guard may be ordered by the Governor or under his or her authority to perform special duty, including duty in a judicial proceeding or course of justice conducted pursuant to § 12-64-101 et seq., 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 pertaining to the military.
AR Code § 12-61-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 2 - National Guard Generally|§ 12-61-207. Female members

 The Governor may appoint, commission, and enlist female citizens of the state into the National Guard where the laws and regulations of the United States permit. While so serving, they will have the same status as male members of the military forces.
AR Code § 12-61-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 3 - State Defense Force|§ 12-61-301. Authority for calling

 The Arkansas State Defense Force may be called to active duty at the discretion of the Governor, when any part of the Arkansas National Guard shall have been called or ordered into federal service, or in any other emergency when the Governor shall deem it necessary to supplement the Arkansas National Guard.
AR Code § 12-61-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 3 - State Defense Force|§ 12-61-302. Organization and government

 (a) The Arkansas State Defense Force shall be organized and governed by the terms of this code and by such rules as may be promulgated from time to time.  (b) Except when otherwise provided, all provisions of this code and rules in respect to the Arkansas National Guard shall apply to the Arkansas State Defense Force.
AR Code § 12-61-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 3 - State Defense Force|§ 12-61-303. Duties, privileges, etc

 All duties imposed and all provisions relating to the privileges, immunities, and prohibitions of the Arkansas National Guard shall likewise apply to the Arkansas State Defense Force.
AR Code § 12-61-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 3 - State Defense Force|§ 12-61-304. Commander

 When organized for active state duty, the Arkansas State Defense Force shall be commanded by any general officer holding an Arkansas state commission, in a rank not above brigadier general, who shall be appointed by the Governor.
AR Code § 12-61-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 3 - State Defense Force|§ 12-61-305. Assignments

 All officers and enlisted personnel of the organized militia not otherwise assigned may be assigned to the Arkansas State Defense Force for such time and in such manner as prescribed by rules promulgated by the Governor as he or she deems necessary.
AR Code § 12-61-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 61 - Military Forces|Subchapter 3 - State Defense Force|§ 12-61-306. Discharge and release

 Upon the release of officers and enlisted personnel from the Arkansas State Defense Force, they shall resume the status held by them prior to their activation.
AR Code § 12-62-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 62 - Military Personnel|Subchapter 1 - Officers|§ 12-62-101. Appointment

 (a) All commissioned officers of the National Guard shall be appointed and promoted by the Governor upon recommendation of the Adjutant General and must be citizens of the United States eighteen (18) years of age or older.  (b) General officers above the grade of brigadier general shall be appointed and promoted by the Governor with the consent of the Senate. During the time that the Senate is not in session, the Governor may make such appointments subject to subsequent confirmation by the Senate.
AR Code § 12-62-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 62 - Military Personnel|Subchapter 1 - Officers|§ 12-62-102. Prerequisites to appointment — Disqualifications

 (a) No person shall be appointed or promoted as a commissioned officer in the National Guard unless he or she shall have passed such examination as to his or her physical, moral, and professional qualifications as may be prescribed by the United States and by this code and the regulations and rules issued thereunder.  (b) No person shall be recognized as a commissioned officer of the National Guard and no appointment as such shall become effective until he or she shall have taken and subscribed an oath of office.  (c) Any person who has been dismissed or dishonorably discharged from the National Guard of this or any other state or from the United States Armed Forces and has not been restored to duty or any commissioned 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 punishable by a court-martial shall not be eligible for appointment as a commissioned officer in any force of the National Guard.
AR Code § 12-62-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 62 - Military Personnel|Subchapter 1 - Officers|§ 12-62-103. Assignment and transfer

 Commissioned officers and warrant officers may be assigned, reassigned, transferred, or detailed to and from units within the National Guard as prescribed by the laws of the United States and this code and the regulations and rules issued thereunder.
AR Code § 12-62-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 62 - Military Personnel|Subchapter 1 - Officers|§ 12-62-104. Removal — Definition

 (a) The Adjutant General of the State of Arkansas shall have the power to remove an officer from the ranks of the Arkansas National Guard if the officer:  (1) Is refused federal recognition in the grade and branch to which he or she has applied;  (2) Has had federal recognition withdrawn in the grade and branch in which he or she was formerly recognized; or  (3) Has had state recognition withdrawn in the grade and branch in which he or she was formerly recognized.    (b) The Adjutant General shall adopt reasonable and necessary rules to accomplish this purpose, including without limitation a rule outlining the process required to have an officer's state recognition withdrawn as provided under subdivision (a)(3) of this section that is similar to the process for the withdrawal of federal recognition under 32 U.S.C. § 323, as it existed on January 1, 2019.  (c) As used in this section, “state recognition withdrawn” means the demotion of an officer of the Arkansas National Guard when it is determined that he or she is not qualified to be an officer in his or her current grade and branch based on a finding by a board of selection officers that the officer is:  (1) Substandard in the performance of his or her duty or in conduct;  (2) Deficient in character;  (3) Below medical standards for retention; or  (4) Unsuited for military service.
AR Code § 12-62-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 62 - Military Personnel|Subchapter 2 - Enlisted Personnel|§ 12-62-201. Qualifications

 The qualifications for enlistment and reenlistment, the periods of enlistment, reenlistment, and voluntary extension of enlistment, the period of service, the form of 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 laws and regulations of the United States relating to the National Guard now or hereafter enacted.
AR Code § 12-62-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 62 - Military Personnel|Subchapter 2 - Enlisted Personnel|§ 12-62-202. Extension of enlistments

 The Governor is authorized to extend the period of any enlistment, reenlistment, voluntary extension of enlistment and the period of service of enlisted personnel of the National Guard for a period not to exceed six (6) months after the termination of an emergency declared by him or her, the General Assembly, or Congress.
AR Code § 12-62-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 62 - Military Personnel|Subchapter 2 - Enlisted Personnel|§ 12-62-203. Discharges

 An enlisted person discharged from service shall receive a discharge in writing in such form as may be prescribed by the Governor.
AR Code § 12-62-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 62 - Military Personnel|Subchapter 2 - Enlisted Personnel|§ 12-62-204. Dropping from the rolls

 An enlisted person of the National Guard may be dropped from the rolls under such regulations as the Governor may prescribe.
AR Code § 12-62-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 62 - Military Personnel|Subchapter 2 - Enlisted Personnel|§ 12-62-205. Restoration to duty

 An enlisted person dropped as a deserter may be restored to duty by the Governor and will thereafter serve for such period added to the time served prior to desertion as will amount to the full term for which that person enlisted.
AR Code § 12-62-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs|Subtitle 4 - Military Affairs|Chapter 62 - Military Personnel|Subchapter 3 - Pay and Allowances|§ 12-62-301. Pay generally

 Each officer, warrant officer, and enlisted person ordered for duty by the Governor or under his or her authority by the commanding general of the National Guard shall be paid by the state for every day actually on duty the same basic pay as officers and enlisted personnel of the United States Armed Forces of equal grade, rating, and length of service and such allowances as may be authorized in rules issued in accordance with the provisions of this code or at a flat daily rate of forty dollars ($40.00) for each day of twenty-four (24) hours or less actually spent on active duty, whichever is greater. However, officers and enlisted personnel shall not receive from the state the pay and allowances provided by this section when ordered on duty thereunder in compliance with instructions from the federal government for services for which they are to receive pay and allowances from federal funds.