48-246. Location of new companies; method of organization; muster out and discharge.
48-246
48-246. Location of new companies; method of organization; muster outand discharge.The location of new companies of the national guard shall be determinedby the military board, and shall be at such points as in their opinion thebest interests of the state shall be conserved and the efficiency of theorganization maintained. The national guard companies shall be distributedthrough the state, as far as it can be done without too great expense beingentailed upon the state and the requirements of rapid mobilization willadmit. The method of organization and muster will be in accordance with theregulations adopted by the military board and approved by the governor.
Companies shall, in general, be mustered out and discharged when theybecome inefficient, and, falling below the minimum number of enlisted personsrequired by statute, they fail to recruit a sufficient membership within areasonable time; such discharges to be made by action of the militaryboard, on the recommendation of the regimental commander; but the governoras commander in chief of the militia shall have power to muster out anddischarge at any time any company of the national guard comprising theactive militia of the state.
History: L. 1901, ch. 255, § 46; May 1; R.S. 1923, 48-246.