2012 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE V MILITARY AFFAIRS AND POLICE
Chapter 41 Military Forces
Section 41.500 Reserve forces--called to duty, when.

41.500. The governor may call out the reserve forces, or any part of the same, to execute the laws, to suppress insurrections, repel invasion, and suppress lawlessness and provide emergency relief to distressed areas in the event of earthquake, flood, tornado, or other actual or threatened public catastrophe creating conditions of distress or hazard to public health and safety beyond the capacities of local or other established agencies, under the same circumstances and in the same manner as is in this chapter provided for the use of the National Guard, the Air National Guard and the organized militia in such emergencies, and when so placed on duty, the reserve forces shall have the same status, power and authority conferred upon the National Guard, the Air National Guard and the organized militia by this chapter.

(RSMo 1939 15022, A.L. 1951 p. 654 92)

Prior revisions: 1929 13829; 1919 7357

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