Minnesota Session Laws - 1989, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1989 

                         CHAPTER 11-H.F.No. 267 
           An act relating to the military; reducing from two 
          years to one year the number of years the adjutant 
          general of the Minnesota national guard is required to 
          serve as a brigadier general before promotion to major 
          general; amending Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 
          190.07.  
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1988, section 190.07, is 
amended read:  
    190.07 [APPOINTMENT; QUALIFICATIONS; RANK.] 
    There shall be an adjutant general of the state who shall 
be appointed by the governor, who shall be a staff officer, who 
at the time of appointment shall be a commissioned officer of 
the national guard of this state, with not less than ten years 
military service in the armed forces of this state or of the 
United States, at least three of which shall have been 
commissioned and who shall have reached the grade of a field 
officer.  
    The adjutant general shall hold rank equal to that of the 
highest rank authorized for the army and air national guard in 
the table of organization for units allotted to the state by the 
department of the army, or the department of the air force, or 
by both such departments, through the national guard bureau.  
However, the adjutant general shall not be appointed to the rank 
of major general without having 20 years service in the national 
guard, of which two years one year has been in the rank of 
brigadier general.  
    The adjutant general shall hold office as provided by 
United States Code, title 32, section 314, as amended through 
the date of appointment, and shall not be removed from office 
except upon withdrawal of federal recognition or as otherwise 
provided by the military laws of this state. 
    Presented to the governor March 15, 1989 
    Signed by the governor March 17, 1989, 8:40 a.m.