US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  46
                         MILITIA AND MILITARY AFFAIRS
                                  CHAPTER 3
                           EQUIPMENT AND ALLOWANCES
    46-303.  PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR MONEY AND PROPERTY. Every officer or
enlisted person of the national guard to whom public property of the state or
of the United States has been issued shall be personally responsible to the
state for such property, and no one shall be relieved from such responsibility
except it be shown by the action of the surveying officer, approved by the
governor in the case of state property, and by the secretary of the army or
the secretary of the air force, in the case of United States property, that
the loss, damage to, or destruction of such property was unavoidable and in no
way the fault of the person responsible for the same. In all other cases the
value of the property, or the amount of damage thereto, shall be charged
against the person at fault and such person shall pay the value of said
property, or the value of the damage thereto, to the adjutant general within
thirty (30) days after the approval of the findings of the surveying officer
as provided herein, to the adjutant general. All moneys paid to the adjutant
general for state property under the provisions of this section shall be paid
into the state treasury and credited to the general fund. All moneys received
by the adjutant general for property of the United States under provisions of
this section, shall be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the
applicable federal law and regulations issued thereunder.