2005 California Military and Veterans Code Sections 500-520.1 CHAPTER 1. CALIFORNIA CADET CORPS

500.  The students of any college, community college or high school
in this state, having 100 or more such students, 14 years of age or
over, may be organized into a cadet company or companies under such
rules and regulations as the governing body of the schools or
colleges and the Adjutant General of the State of California may
prescribe.  Said company or companies shall be of such strength as
may be prescribed by the Adjutant General.
500.1.  Except as hereinafter provided, each college, community
college, high school and each senior high school in this state having
100 or more students of 14 years of age or over and in which there
is not maintained an R.O.T.C. unit shall establish a cadet company or
companies under such rules and regulations as the governing body of
the schools and the Adjutant General may prescribe, and any college,
community college, high school or senior high school in the state
having less than 100 of such students may establish a cadet company
or companies.  Said company or companies shall be of such strength as
shall be prescribed by the Adjutant General.  A cadet company or
companies is not required to be established in a high school, college
or community college unless a number of qualified students
sufficient to constitute a company or companies of the strength
prescribed by the Adjutant General voluntarily enroll therein.
501.  Cadet companies shall at all times be under the guidance and
control of the principal, president, director or chief administrative
officer of the college, community college or high school, whose duty
it shall be to make regulations with the approval of the Adjutant
General regarding the moral, educational, and physical welfare of the
cadets.
502.  Upon recommendation of the governing board having jurisdiction
over the community college or school, the Adjutant General may
appoint officers in the California Cadet Corps for duty in each
community college, high school, junior high school, or elementary
school under the jurisdiction of the governing board.  Except when
ordered to duty by the Governor, the officers shall be under the
immediate control and jurisdiction of the governing board of the
community college, high school, junior high school, or elementary
school at which they are on duty.  Each officer shall hold his or her
appointment at the pleasure of the governing board, or until a
successor has been appointed and qualified or his or her connection
with the cadets is severed.
502.1.  The Adjutant General shall determine by the adoption of
rules and regulations the grade and rank to be held by officers
appointed in the California Cadet Corps by reason of their military
experience and professional knowledge.  Said officers shall be
commissioned in the manner that shall be determined by rules and
regulations adopted by the Adjutant General.
   A person who has previously been a commissioned officer of, and
discharged under honorable conditions from, the United States Army,
the Army of the United States, the United States Navy, the United
States Air Force, the United States Marine Corps, the United States
Coast Guard, or any reserve component of such federal forces, the
National Guard, the State Military Reserve, or the active militia may
be appointed in the California Cadet Corps and commissioned in the
same rank last held in such federal or state military forces.  Each
officer commissioned shall hold office as provided by rules and
regulations adopted by the Adjutant General.  Upon recommendation of
the Adjutant General, the Governor may commission one executive
officer of the California Cadet Corps as colonel, one assistant
executive officer of the California Cadet Corps as lieutenant
colonel, and the necessary number of regional supervisors of cadet
instruction in the same grade and rank as said officers last held in
said federal or state military forces, not to exceed lieutenant
colonel, as may be determined by rules and regulations adopted by the
Adjutant General.  Pay and expenses shall be taken from the moneys
appropriated for the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps.
502.2.  The executive officer commissioned as a colonel in the
National Guard, the assistant executive officer commissioned as a
lieutenant colonel in the National Guard, the regional supervisors of
cadet instruction commissioned as provided in Section 502.1 of this
code and the officers appointed in the California Cadet Corps
commissioned according to rules and regulations adopted by the
Adjutant General shall wear such uniform as may be prescribed by the
Adjutant General, including cap and collar ornaments and other
distinctive marks of identification of the California Cadet Corps as
may not be inconsistent with rules and regulations of the United
States Army.
502.5.  The Adjutant General may order officers in the California
Cadet Corps to duty at encampments, exercises, or other activities
conducted by the corps.  While on duty, the officers shall receive
the same base pay, without longevity, as officers of similar grade in
the United States Army together with their expenses.  Pay and
expenses for these purposes shall be paid from funds appropriated for
the maintenance and support of the corps.
503.  Cadet companies shall be organized and each shall have such
commissioned cadet officers and noncommissioned cadet officers as
shall be prescribed from time to time by the Adjutant General, and as
shall conform generally to the number of commissioned and
noncommissioned officers of companies of the California National
Guard.  Said commissioned cadet officers shall be commissioned in
accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General
and upon recommendation of the commandant of cadets and with the
approval of the president, director or chief administrative officer
or principal.  The noncommissioned cadet officers shall be appointed
and warranted by the commandant of cadets with the approval of the
president, director or chief administrative officer or principal.
504.  The Adjutant General shall provide by the adoption of rules
and regulations for the formation of cadet battalions and shall adopt
tables of organization and provide for the appointment of cadet
battalion officers and staffs.  All cadet battalion officers and
noncommissioned officers shall be appointed, commissioned or
warranted in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the
Adjutant General and upon the recommendation of the commandant of
cadets with the approval of the president, director or other chief
administrative officer or principal of the college, community college
or high school.
505.  The Adjutant General may in his discretion organize companies
of the California Cadet Corps into battalions and regiments and each
such battalion and regiment so organized shall have a staff to
consist of such cadet commissioned officers and cadet noncommissioned
officers as may be prescribed by the Adjutant General.  The Adjutant
General may adopt tables of organizations for the battalions or
regiments created hereunder and all cadet officers or cadet
noncommissioned officers appointed, commissioned or warranted as
staff or line cadet officers or cadet noncommissioned officers shall
be selected upon the recommendation of the cadet commandant with the
approval of the president, director or other chief administrative
officer or principal of the college, community college or high
school.
506.  All cadet officers and noncommissioned officers shall be
promoted according to rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant
General upon the recommendation of the commandant of cadets and with
the approval of the president, chief administrative officer, director
or principal of the college, community college or high school.
507.  Any cadet commissioned officer or cadet noncommissioned
officer may have his commission or warrant canceled and be reduced to
the ranks, or dismissed from the California Cadet Corps and any
cadet may be dismissed from the corps, upon the recommendation of the
president, director or chief administrative officer of the college
or community college or the principal of the high school, for
deficiency in his studies or for misbehavior either in college,
community college or high school or in the California Cadet Corps or
for other good cause in the judgment of the president, director or
chief administrative officer of the college or community college or
the principal of the high school.
508.  The California Cadet Corps shall train in accordance with the
appropriate manuals prescribed by the United States Army and as may
be prescribed by rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant
General.  No uniformed corps of cadets shall be organized in any
college, community college, or high school except pursuant to and as
authorized by this chapter provided that R.O.T.C. and other federally
approved military units shall not be subject to or limited by this
code.
509.  The Adjutant General shall provide and may prepare suitable
training regulations, books and courses of instruction, and the
necessary forms for reports or other necessary purposes to be used by
the California Cadet Corps. The Adjutant General may take such
action as is necessary to promote the general welfare, strength and
morale of the California Cadet Corps and to provide for the
recreation of cadets.
510.  Members of the California Cadet Corps shall wear such uniforms
as the Adjutant General prescribes.  The Adjutant General may issue
to the California Cadet Corps necessary cap and collar ornaments and
chevrons, training aids, insignia of rank and of the California Cadet
Corps, awards and decoration, flags, colors, guidons, standards,
slings and carrying devices, canteens and covers, belts, first aid
packets, mess kits, shelter halves, haversacks, and such other
military property or equipment in the control of the Adjutant General
as may not be required for the National Guard or other state
military forces or other military purposes.  A regulation uniform for
cadets shall be kept in the Adjutant General's office to be used as
sample from which the uniforms for the California Cadet Corps shall
be made.  Such issues may be made by the Adjutant General without
charge to the members of the California Cadet Corps or to the school
or college or community college.  The Adjutant General, after
receiving written acknowledgment from the high school principal or
president, director or chief administrative officer of the college or
community college of the receipt of such property, shall account the
same as a transfer of equipment.
511.  A sufficient number of rifles suitable for drill purposes may
be purchased by the board of high school trustees, board of
education, board of directors or trustees of a college or community
college, county superintendent of schools, the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, or the Adjutant General out of any funds
available and not otherwise appropriated.
511.5.  The Adjutant General, under such rules and regulations as he
may adopt, may purchase and furnish the members of the California
Cadet Corps uniforms including caps, helmets, liners, shirts,
trousers, belts, jackets, skirts, blouses, ties and leggings.
   The Adjutant General, with the approval of the Department of
Finance, may annually determine the uniform value per cadet.
512.  Target practice shall constitute a part of the instruction to
be given to cadets.  Members of the California Cadet Corps may engage
in rifle matches and competitions conducted or held in this state or
at any place in the United States.  The Adjutant General may
purchase and supply to each of the colleges, communmity colleges and
high schools a sufficient number of Springfield or other efficient
rifles for field target work and gallery practice and the ammmunition
and equipment therefor, as in his judgment is necessary for
efficient rifle practice.  A sufficient number of rifles suitable for
field target work or gallery target firing and the ammunition and
equipment therefor may be purchased by a board of high school
trustees, board of education, board of directors or trustees of a
college or community college, county superintendent of schools, or
the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, out of any funds
available therefor, and the governing body or governing officials of
any high school, community college or college may purchase the
necessary parts for and may repair any rifles acquired or furnished
for the use of members of the California Cadet Corps.  All target
practice shall be under the supervision of the president, chief
administrative officer, director or principal of the college,
community college, or high school or such officer or officers as he
or they may appoint. Competent members of the National Guard, State
Military Reserve or Naval Militia may be detailed by the Adjutant
General, with their consent, and upon request of the president, chief
administrative officer, director or principal of the college,
community college or high school as instructors of target practice in
the California Cadet Corps.  Such instructors while on duty at said
college, community college or high school during target practice
shall be under the immediate control and jurisdiction of the
governing body of said college, community college or high school.
The expenditures therefor may be paid out of the moneys appropriated
for the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps.
513.  The Adjutant General may detail from the organizations of the
National Guard, State Military Reserve, or Naval Militia, competent
members thereof who shall perform duties on behalf of the California
Cadet Corps as may be assigned to them or who shall act as training
and rifle practice instructors for the California Cadet Corps.  The
Adjutant General may provide for compensating the persons detailed
for duty and service with the California Cadet Corps and the persons
detailed to instruct the cadets in drill and target practice.  The
expenditures therefor may be paid out of the moneys appropriated for
the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps.  The Adjutant General
may conduct schools and conferences for the officers of the
California Cadet Corps and pay the expenditures thereof out of moneys
appropriated for the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps.  The
Adjutant General may adopt rules and regulations providing for the
promotion of officers of the California Cadet Corps.
514.  Whenever practicable members of the California Cadet Corps
shall, under the supervision of the commandant of cadets, be
permitted to shoot at target practice upon National Guard rifle
ranges when not needed by the National Guard.
515.  Units of the California Cadet Corps shall be inspected at
least once each year by the executive officer, the assistant
executive officer, the regional supervisors of cadet instruction, or
any of them, or by officers of the National Guard, State Military
Reserve or Naval Militia detailed by the Adjutant General for that
purpose.  Such inspectors shall report to the Adjutant General the
result of inspections relating to the training, target practice,
attendance, discipline, military knowledge and instruction,
leadership and condition of property of the California Cadet Corps.
Such report shall contain an inventory of the state property on hand
in the cadet units at the time of inspections.  Such reports shall be
made and forwarded in duplicate, one copy to the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction and one copy to the Adjutant
General's office, and shall bear the endorsement of the president,
director or other chief administrative officer of the college or
community college or of the principal of the high school, containing
remarks the said officials may deem pertinent.
516.  The president, director or chief administrative officer of a
college or community college and the principal of the high school
shall be responsible for all public property supplied to units of the
California Cadet Corps under their control or supervision and shall
supervise the proper care thereof.
516.1.  An encampment or encampments may be held by the California
Cadet Corps to be of such duration and attended by such proportion of
the strength of the corps as may be prescribed by the Adjutant
General.  The expenses of said encampments may be paid out of moneys
appropriated for the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps.
517.  Each board of high school trustees, president, director and
chief administrative officer of a college or community college, board
of trustees of a college or community college, board of education,
principal of a high school, county superintendent of schools and the
State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall facilitate the
purposes of the California Cadet Corps and its instruction and the
provisions of this chapter by cooperating with the Adjutant General.
518.  The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all community
colleges in this state, and the principals and governing boards of
community colleges shall have the same authority as similar officials
of high schools.
519.  Where a community college is located in close proximity to any
high school having a high school cadet company or companies, the
governing boards of the community college and high schools may by
agreement provide for the joint organization of cadet companies.
520.  In all cases in which any executive officer, assistant
executive officer, regional or other supervisor of cadet instruction,
and officers appointed or detailed, pursuant to Sections 502, 502.1,
512, 513, 515, or 516.1, when in the performance of duty ordered by
the Adjutant General, is wounded, injured, disabled or killed in the
performance of ordered duty and in line of duty, such executive
officer, assistant executive officer, regional, or other supervisor
of cadet instruction, or officers appointed or detailed, pursuant to
Sections 502, 502.1, 512, 513, 515, or 516.1, shall be entitled to
receive compensation from the State in accordance with the provisions
of Division 4 of the Labor Code.  In all such cases, such officers
and those so appointed or detailed shall be held and deemed to be
employees of the State.  The compensation to be awarded to any such
officer and those so appointed or detailed shall be ascertained,
determined and fixed upon the basis of his average income from all
sources during the year immediately preceding the date of such injury
or death, or the commencement of such disability, but such
compensation shall in no case exceed the maximum prescribed in
Divison 4 of the Labor Code.
   In the determination of benefits to be awarded any such officer
and those so appointed or detailed, under the provisions of this
section, it shall be conclusively presumed that the average yearly
earning of such injured or deceased officer is not less than two
thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500). Any injury, death or
disability shall be deemed to have been suffered in line of duty
unless the same resulted from misconduct or disobedience of lawful
orders by the injured or deceased officer.
520.1.  The principal and governing board of any private educational
institution or military academy in which there is not maintained an
R.O.T.C.  unit of high school or community college or college grade
otherwise meeting the qualifications prescribed by this chapter and
such rules and regulations not inconsistent therewith that may be
adopted by the Adjutant General may apply to the Adjutant General for
permission to establish a cadet company or cadet companies,
battalions or regiments of the California Cadet Corps pursuant to
this chapter.  If the Adjutant General approves the petition, the
principal and governing board of the private school shall have the
same authority as similar officials of public high schools, community
colleges or colleges to create units of and to become a member of
the California Cadet Corps, and the cadet company or companies or
other cadet units shall in all respects be governed by the provisions
of this chapter to the same extent as though it were a public high
school, community college or college.