Georgia § 38-2-8 - State reserve list; composition; active duty; length of service computations; applicable rules and regulations.

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§ 38-2-8. State reserve list; composition; active duty; length of service computations; applicable rules and regulations.

Any commissioned or warrant officer of the organized militia may be transferred to the state reserve list on his own request, if approved by the adjutant general. Any commissioned or warrant officer of the organized militia whose assignment becomes excess personnel by reduction, disbandment, or reorganization of a unit or by denial, withdrawal, or termination of his federal recognition or for any other reason, unless transferred to the inactive National Guard, may be relieved from duty or command and may be transferred to the state reserve list. Any person who has served as a commissioned or warrant officer in the organized militia or in the armed forces of the United States and has been honorably discharged therefrom may be commissioned and placed on the state reserve list in the highest grade previously held by him after complying with such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations issued pursuant to this chapter. Upon the recommendation of the adjutant general, the Governor may order any person on the state reserve list to active duty in or with the organized militia for a period not to exceed three months, in which case the person shall rank in his grade from the date of such order. Time spent on the state reserve list shall not be credited in the computation of length of service for seniority, pay, promotion, or otherwise, or retirement or any of the privileges and exemptions pertaining thereto, except that time served on active duty by order of the Governor shall be so credited. The provisions of this chapter relative to the resignation, retirement, court-martial, dismissal, or discharge of commissioned or warrant officers of the organized militia, including dismissal or discharge on the findings of an efficiency or medical examining board, shall be applicable to commissioned or warrant officers on the state reserve list. (Ga. L. 1916, p. 158, § 3; Code 1933, § 86-405; Ga. L. 1955, p. 10, § 14.)

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