1998 Minnesota Statutes

     192.49 Pay and allowances of officers and organizations. 

    Subdivision 1.    Officers.  Every commissioned officer 
 of the military forces shall receive from the state, while 
 engaged in any service ordered by the governor, pay and 
 allowances at the rate now or hereafter paid or allowed by law 
 to officers of the same grade and length of service in the armed 
 forces of the United States, but not less than $130 a day. 

    Subd. 2.    Enlisted persons.  When called into active 
 service by the governor, other than for encampment or maneuvers, 
 including the time necessarily consumed in travel, each enlisted 
 person of the military forces shall be paid by the state the pay 
 and the allowances, when not furnished in kind, provided by law 
 for enlisted persons of similar grade, rating, and length of 
 service in the armed forces of the United States, or $130 a day, 
 whichever is more.  

    Subd. 3.    Allowances for military expense.  
 Allowances for the necessary military expenses of all 
 organizations, units, or detachments of the military forces, 
 including clerk hire, office supplies, postage, and other actual 
 outlay, shall be paid by the adjutant general out of the funds 
 appropriated for the maintenance of the military forces, such 
 allowances annually not to exceed for the state headquarters and 
 for the division headquarters when located in this state $2,000 
 each; $3,000 a year for the commanding general of troops; for 
 any other organization commanded by a general officer $1,000 
 plus $100 for each immediately and directly subordinate 
 organization or unit; for any brigade, group, battalion, 
 squadron, or equivalent organization $200 plus $100 for each 
 immediately and directly subordinate organization or unit; and 
 $300 for incidental expenses of each company, battery, or 
 detachment; and at the time of the annual encampment or 
 maneuvers, for each division or camp headquarters mess $200; for 
 each officers' mess of a regiment, group, or higher headquarters 
 $200; and for the officers' mess of each battalion or equivalent 
 headquarters $100.  Allowances authorized under this section 
 shall be expended and accounted for as prescribed by the 
 commander-in-chief in orders or rules.  

    HIST: (2454) 1921 c 506 s 60; 1939 c 175 s 10; 1943 c 108 s 
 24; 1947 c 125 s 7; 1963 c 658 s 17,18; 1965 c 114 s 1; 1985 c 
 248 s 70; 1986 c 444; 1997 c 24 s 13,14