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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. (a) 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, may be paid by the adjutant general out of the
funds appropriated for the maintenance of the military forces. These allowances annually may
not exceed:
(1) for the state headquarters and for the division headquarters when located in this state
$2,500 each;
(2) $3,000 for the commanding general of troops;
(3) for any other organization commanded by a general officer $2,200;
(4) for any brigade, group, battalion, squadron, or equivalent organization $500 plus $100
for each immediately and directly subordinate organization or unit; and
(5) $600 for incidental expenses of each company, battery, or detachment.
(b) Allowances authorized under this section shall be expended and accounted for as
prescribed by the adjutant general.
History: (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; 1999 c 250 art 1 s 82

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