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37.240 Active service -- How and when ordered into -- Direction -- Powers.

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37.240 Active service -- How and when ordered into -- Direction -- Powers. The Governor is hereby authorized to call and to assign any part of the Kentucky active <br>militia to active service for the purpose of resisting invasion, suppressing rebellions, <br>insurrections, riots, or threats thereof; to suppress any active, unlawful, or threatened <br>violence to persons or property in this state; to authorize the arrest of all persons engaged <br>in aiding or abetting therein; to investigate any acts of treason, sabotage, or attempted <br>sabotage and to cause the arrest of such persons engaged therein for aiding and abetting; <br>to protect life and property in the event of any emergency or disaster. The Governor may <br>by his order prescribe the duty to be performed by the troops thus called into active field <br>service. The Governor may direct the commanding officer of such military forces thus <br>ordered into service to report to any of the following named civil officers of the judicial <br>circuit, county, city, or town: Circuit Judge, sheriff, county judge/executive, or mayor; <br>and such civil officers may direct the specific object to be accomplished by such military <br>force, but the tactical direction and disposition of the troops and the particular means to <br>be employed to accomplish the object shall be left solely to the officers of the Kentucky <br>active militia. Troops shall not be relieved from active field service except by order of the <br>Governor. History: Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 62, sec. 48. -- Created 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 4, sec. 9.