2023 New York Laws › MIL - Military › Article 1 - The Militia of the State › 20 - State Reserve List.

§ 20. State  reserve  list.  1. Any commissioned or warrant officer of
  the organized militia may be transferred to the state  reserve  list  on
  his  own  request  approved  by the commander of the force of which such
  officer is a member.
2. Any commissioned or warrant officer of the  organized  militia  who
  has  tendered his resignation or has been rendered surplus by reduction,
  disbandment or  reorganization  of  a  unit  or  denial,  withdrawal  or
  termination  of  his federal recognition or for any other reason, unless
  transferred to the inactive national guard may be relieved from duty  or
  command and may be transferred to the state reserve list.
3.  Any  person who has served as a commissioned or warrant officer in
  the organized militia or in the armed forces of the  United  States  and
  (a)  has  been  honorably  discharged therefrom, or (b) has a qualifying
  condition, as defined in section one of the veterans' services law,  and
  has  received  a  discharge  other than bad conduct or dishonorable from
  such service, or (c) is a discharged LGBT veteran, as defined in section
  one of the veterans' services law, and has received  a  discharge  other
  than  bad conduct or dishonorable from such service, may be commissioned
  and placed on the state reserve list in  the  highest  grade  previously
  held  by  him  or  her  after  complying  with such conditions as may be
  prescribed by regulations issued pursuant to this chapter.
4. Upon the  recommendation  of  the  adjutant  general,  any  officer
  eligible  to  be  transferred  to  or placed upon the state reserve list
  under the provisions of this  section,  who  has  served  for  at  least
  twenty-five years in the organized militia or in the armed forces of the
  United  States  or  in  two or more of such forces combined for at least
  twenty-five years may be transferred to or placed upon the state reserve
  list by the governor in a grade one grade higher than the highest  grade
  previously  held  by  him;  provided  that  at  least five years of such
  service shall have been in the  organized  militia.  In  computing  such
  twenty-five year period, service as an enlisted man shall be counted.
5.  Upon  the recommendation of the adjutant general, the governor may
  order any person on the state reserve list to active duty in or with the
  organized militia for periods of not more  than  three  months  each  in
  which  case  such  person  shall rank in his grade from the date of such
  order.
6. Time spent on the state reserve list shall not be credited  in  the
  computation  of  seniority,  pay,  length  of  service  for promotion or
  otherwise, or  retirement  or  any  of  the  privileges  and  exemptions
  pertaining  thereto,  except  that  the  time  during which he served on
  active duty by order of the governor shall be so credited.
7. The  provisions  of  this  chapter  relative  to  the  resignation,
  retirement,  court-martial,  dismissal  and  discharge  of  commissioned
  officers  and  warrant  officers  of  the  organized  militia  including
  discharge  on  the  findings of an efficiency or medical examining board
  shall be applicable to  officers  and  warrant  officers  on  the  state
  reserve list.
8. A commissioned officer or warrant officer on the state reserve list
  may  be  dropped  from  the  rolls if he fails to report to the chief of
  staff of the state as prescribed by regulations issued pursuant to  this
  chapter.