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37.170 Kentucky State Defense Force -- Organization -- Reorganization.
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The Governor is hereby authorized to enlist, organize, maintain, equip,
discipline and pay when called into active field service a volunteer state
defense force other than the National Guard, which shall constitute the active
militia and shall be known as the Kentucky State Defense Force, which shall
consist of able-bodied citizens who are residents of the State of Kentucky
between the ages of eighteen (18) and sixty-four (64) who are not active
members of a reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States.
Whenever the President of the United States shall call any part of the National
Guard of this state into active federal service, the Governor is hereby
authorized to organize the Kentucky State Defense Force under such
regulations as may be promulgated by the Governor or adjutant general.
The Governor shall have the power to alter, divide, annex, disband or
reorganize any organization of the Kentucky State Defense Force whenever in
his judgment the efficiency of the state forces will thereby be increased, and he
shall have power to change the organization so as to conform to the
regulations now or hereafter prescribed by the laws of the United States for the
organization of the National Guard or militia.
History: Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 414, sec. 47, effective July 13, 1984. -Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 108, sec. 10; and ch. 386, sec. 9. -- Amended 1962
Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 3. -- Created 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 4, secs. 1, 4, and 8.
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