29A.1 - DEFINITIONS.
29A.1 DEFINITIONS.
The following words, terms, and phrases when used in this chapter
shall have the respective meanings herein set forth:
1. "Civil air patrol" means the civilian auxiliary of the
United States air force established by the United States Congress in
36 U.S.C. § 40301 et seq., and 10 U.S.C. § 9441 et seq.
2. "Facility" means the land, and the buildings and other
improvements on the land which are the responsibility and property of
the Iowa national guard.
3. "Federal service" means duty authorized and performed
under the provisions of 10 U.S.C. as part of the active military
forces of the United States or the army national guard of the United
States or the air national guard of the United States.
4. "Homeland defense" means the protection of state
territory, population, and critical infrastructure and assets against
attacks from within or without the state.
5. "Law and regulations" means and includes state and federal
law and regulations.
6. "Militia" shall mean the forces provided for in the
Constitution of Iowa.
7. "National guard" means the Iowa units, detachments and
organizations of the army national guard of the United States, the
air national guard of the United States, the army national guard, and
the air national guard as those forces are defined in 10 U.S.C. §
101.
8. "Officer" shall mean and include commissioned officers and
warrant officers.
9. "On duty" means training, including unit training
assemblies, and other training, operational duty, and other service
which may be required under state or federal law, regulations, or
orders, and the necessary travel of an officer or enlisted person to
the place of performance and return home after performance of that
duty, but does not include federal service. A member of the national
guard shall be considered to be on duty when called to testify about
an incident which the member observed or was involved in while that
member was on duty.
10. "Organization" means a command composed of two or more
subordinate units and includes the state headquarters for both the
army and the air national guard, one or more divisions, wings,
brigades, groups, battalions, squadrons or flights as defined by an
appropriate table of organization, a table of distribution or unit
personnel document.
11. "State active duty" means duty authorized and performed
under section 29A.8 and paid for with state funds. "State active
duty" also includes serving as the adjutant general, a deputy
adjutant general, or the state quartermaster.
12. "State military service" means training or operational
duty or other service authorized and performed under the provisions
of 32 U.S.C. or other federal law or regulation as part of the Iowa
army national guard or Iowa air national guard and paid for with
federal funds.
13. "Unit" means a military element of an organization whose
structure is prescribed by competent authority such as a table of
organization, table of distribution, or unit personnel document. For
the purposes of this chapter, a unit shall include one or more
companies, flights, troops, batteries or detachments and the state
officer candidate school.
14. Except when otherwise expressly defined herein military
words, terms and phrases shall have the meaning commonly ascribed to
them in the military profession. Section History: Early Form
[C97, § 2168; S13, § 2215-f2; C24, 27, 31, § 433; C35, § 467-f2;
C39, § 467.02; C46, 50, § 29.2; C54, 58, 62, § 29.1; C66, 71, 73,
75, 77, 79, 81, § 29A.1; 81 Acts, ch 14, § 18] Section History: Recent Form
2000 Acts, ch 1020, §1, 6; 2001 Acts, 2nd Ex, ch 1, §1--6, 28;
2002 Acts, ch 1117, §2, 3, 23; 2004 Acts, ch 1086, §12; 2005 Acts, ch
119, §1
Referred to in § 29A.43, 29A.90, 69.20, 96.7(2a), 142D.3, 654.1A,
669.14