Minnesota Session Laws - 1999, Regular Session

                            CHAPTER 46-H.F.No. 1565 
                  An act relating to the military; expanding eligibility 
                  for certain state service; amending Minnesota Statutes 
                  1998, sections 190.08, subdivision 3; 192.19; and 
                  193.29, subdivisions 1, 2, and 3. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 190.08, 
        subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
           Subd. 3.  [ORDER TO STATE ACTIVE SERVICE.] The adjutant 
        general may order to state active service, with their consent, 
        additional current or former officers, warrant officers, and 
        enlisted personnel of the national guard of the state as are 
        required for the full time administration of the military 
        department.  Except for those appointed under subdivisions 1 and 
        2, they may not be removed from office after one year of active 
        service except for cause, reduction in force, or withdrawal of 
        federal recognition, as long as they remain active members of 
        the military forces of the state.  
           Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 192.19, is 
        amended to read: 
           192.19 [RETIRED OFFICERS MEMBERS MAY BE ORDERED TO ACTIVE 
        DUTY.] 
           The commander-in-chief or the adjutant general may assign 
        officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel on the 
        retired list, with their consent, to temporary active service in 
        recruiting, upon courts-martial, courts of inquiry and boards, 
        to staff duty not involving service with troops, or in charge of 
        a military reservation left temporarily without officers.  
        Such officers personnel while so assigned shall receive the full 
        pay and allowances of their grades at time of retirement. 
           Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 193.29, 
        subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
           Subdivision 1.  [ARMORY BOARD.] The control operation and 
        use of each armory building and grounds occupied by any of the 
        military forces of the state shall be vested in an armory board 
        consisting of officers, warrant officers, or enlisted personnel 
        representing the organization or organizations quartered 
        therein, as hereinafter provided, except that the 
        commission-owned armories which have been or may be constructed 
        or acquired and operated under the provisions of sections 
        193.139 to 193.149, and acts supplementary thereto shall be 
        controlled and operated as provided therein.  
           Sec. 4.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 193.29, 
        subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
           Subd. 2.  [COMPOSITION OF BOARD.] For each armory occupied 
        by a single company or other unit the armory board shall consist 
        of the three senior officers, warrant officers, or enlisted 
        personnel of the unit quartered therein, provided, in the case 
        of a unit having less than three officers, the armory board 
        shall consist of such officers or officer as the adjutant 
        general may designate.  
           Sec. 5.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 193.29, 
        subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
           Subd. 3.  [JOINT BOARDS.] In all cases in which more than 
        one company or other unit of the military forces shall occupy 
        the same armory, the armory board shall consist of three 
        officers assigned to the units or organizations quartered 
        therein.  The adjutant general shall designate by order from 
        time to time the representatives of each unit quartered therein 
        to comprise the armory board for each armory.  In the discretion 
        of the adjutant general, the membership of the board may be 
        comprised of officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel 
        and may be changed from time to time so as to give the several 
        organizations quartered therein proper representation on the 
        board. 
           Presented to the governor April 12, 1999 
           Signed by the governor April 15, 1999, 11:05 a.m.