48-205. Adjutant general; special assistants; judge advocate general; compensation; finance and disbursing officer; employees.
48-205
48-205. Adjutant general; special assistants; judge advocate general;compensation; finance and disbursing officer; employees.The adjutant general shall have immediate charge of the state arsenalunder the supervision of the governor. The adjutant general shall have chargeand care of allstate and United States military property for which the state isresponsible and shall cause to be kept an accurate and careful account ofall receipts and issues of the same. He or she shall require to be kept a carefulmemorandum of all public property on hand in the state arsenal and in thepossession of the several organizations of the Kansas army and air nationalguard, or Kansas state guard and will guard said property against injuryand loss to the extent of his or her ability; the adjutant general shallrequire every accountableand responsible officer of the Kansas army and air national guard, orKansas state guard to account for every deficiency in public property insuch officer's possession immediately after such deficiency is discovered.The adjutant general mayappoint two assistant adjutants general who may have the rank of brigadiergeneral when they are assigned as head of the department of the armynational guard or the department of the air national guard, and who shallhave served at least five years as commissioned officers in the Kansas armyor air national guard who shall be within the classified service of theKansas civil service act.
The office of one of the assistant adjutants general will be with theadjutant general, and the assistant shall assist the adjutant general in theperformance of such duties as may be assigned to him or her and the assistantmay perform theduties of the adjutant general in the case of absence, inability, or byexpress direction of the latter, and at such time the assistant will sign as "actingadjutant general." He or she may appoint one special assistant adjutant general,with the rank of colonel, who shall have served at least five years as acommissioned officer with the Kansas national guard and who shall be withinthe classified service of the Kansas civil service act; and one judgeadvocate general, with the rank of colonel. The adjutant general may, withthe approval of the governor, promote a judge advocate general who hasserved thirty (30) or more years of combined service in the Kansas nationalguard and United States military forces, with the rank of colonel for atleast ten (10) years, to the rank of brigadier general.
Subject to the approval of the governor, and, within the provisions ofthe civil service law and available appropriations, the adjutant general may appoint onefinance and disbursing officer with the rank of colonel, who acts asdisbursing officer for the state; and such other assistants and clericalemployees as may be necessary to carry out properly the provisions of thisact.
History: L. 1901, ch. 255, § 5; L. 1903, ch. 359, § 1, (5); L. 1905, ch. 303,§ 1, (5); L. 1907, ch. 248, § 1, (5); L. 1921, ch. 206, § 4; R.S. 1923,48-205; L. 1931, ch. 8, § 3; L. 1933, ch. 286, § 13; L. 1937, ch. 329, §6; L. 1943, ch. 277, § 3; L. 1947, ch. 306, § 1; L. 1949, ch. 423, § 3;L. 1957, ch. 306, § 3; L. 1969, ch. 268, § 1;L. 1972, ch. 202, § 1; July 1.