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Title 44 - Military and Emergency Laws
Chapter 1. MILITARY LAWS OF VIRGINIAArticle 1. CLASSIFICATION OF MILITIA
- § 44-1. Composition of militia
- § 44-2. Composition of National Guard
- § 44-2.1. Repealed
- § 44-3. Composition of naval militia
- § 44-4. Composition of unorganized militia
- § 44-5. Exemptions from militia duty
- § 44-6. Maintenance of other troops
- § 44-7. Corps entitled to retain privileges
Article 2. GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS
- § 44-8. Governor as Commander in Chief
- § 44-9. Commander in Chief to prescribe regulations
- § 44-10. Divisions of military staff
- § 44-11. Department of Military Affairs; Adjutant General
- § 44-11.1. Duties of the Department of Military Affairs
- § 44-12. Repealed
- § 44-13. Powers of Adjutant General
- § 44-14. Expenditures for Department
- § 44-15. Reports to Secretary of Defense
- § 44-16. Records of Adjutant General
- § 44-17. Regulations as to reports and care of property
- § 44-18. Seal of Adjutant General
- § 44-19. Adjutant General to have charge of military property
- § 44-20. Deputy Adjutant General (Army and Air) and Assistant Adjutant General (Army); assistants and clerical forces of Adjutant General
- § 44-21. Bonds of Adjutant General and fiscal clerks
- § 44-22. Auditing accounts of Adjutant General
- § 44-23. Repealed
- § 44-24. United States Property and Fiscal Officer
- § 44-24.1. Adjutant General may provide group health and hospitalization insurance for employees of Department
Article 3. NATIONAL GUARD IN GENERAL
- § 44-25. Organization; composition of units
- § 44-26. Location of units and headquarters
- § 44-27. Appointment and promotion of officers
- § 44-28. Qualifications of commanding or staff officers
- § 44-29. Qualifications of National Guard officers
- § 44-30. Tests as to fitness for officers; examining board
- § 44-31. Relative rank of officers
- § 44-32. Oath of National Guard officers
- § 44-32.1. Administration of oaths of office and enlistment
- § 44-33. Elimination and disposition of officers
- § 44-34. Repealed
- § 44-35. Enlistments in National Guard
- § 44-36. Enlistment contract and oath
- § 44-37. Discharge of enlisted persons
- § 44-38. Membership continued in National Guard after termination of federal service
- § 44-39. Uniforms, arms and equipment
- § 44-40. Discipline and training
- § 44-40.1. Persons subject to the Virginia military laws
- § 44-40.2. Administration of oaths and taking of sworn statements by commissioned officers
- § 44-41. Armory drills, inactive training, annual active duty training, etc
- § 44-41.1. Failure to report; etc
- § 44-41.2. Sharing of information with Virginia Employment Commission upon separation
Article 4. NATIONAL GUARD COURTS-MARTIAL
- § 44-42. Kinds of courts-martial; how constituted and powers
- § 44-43. Repealed
- § 44-44. Special courts-martial
- § 44-45. Summary courts-martial
- § 44-46. Repealed
- § 44-46.1. Military judges
- § 44-47. Process and procedure
- § 44-48. Review of judgments of courts-martial; procedure
- § 44-49. Where sentences executed
- § 44-50. How process and sentence executed
- § 44-51. Certificates
- § 44-52. Repealed
- § 44-53. Collection of fines
- § 44-54. Disposition of fines
Article 4.2. VIRGINIA DEFENSE FORCE
- § 44-54.4. Organization; definitions
- § 44-54.5. Composition of units
- § 44-54.6. Members, appointment and enlistment
- § 44-54.7. Regulations
- § 44-54.8. Administration of oaths
- § 44-54.9. Uniform; rank in precedence; command
- § 44-54.10. Discipline
- § 44-54.11. Discharge; dismissal
- § 44-54.12. Arms, equipment and facilities
Article 5. NAVAL MILITIA IN GENERAL
- § 44-55. Composition
- § 44-56. Organization
- § 44-57. Arms and equipment
- § 44-58. Precedence of officers
- § 44-59. Membership in other naval or military organizations
- § 44-60. Who to command
- § 44-61. Discipline
- § 44-62. Members of naval reserve
- § 44-63. When relieved from service or duty
- § 44-64. Oath of officers and enlisted persons
- § 44-65. United States naval laws, customs and regulations
- § 44-66. Courts of inquiry
Article 6. NAVAL MILITIA COURTS-MARTIAL
- § 44-67. Kinds of courts-martial
- § 44-68. Jurisdiction and procedure
- § 44-69. Powers of punishment
- § 44-70. Warrants, process and commitments; contempt
- § 44-71. How processes and sentences executed
- § 44-72. Confinement in lieu of fines
- § 44-73. Dismissal or dishonorable discharge
- § 44-74. Disposition of fines
Article 7. REGULATIONS AS TO ACTIVE SERVICE
- § 44-75. Repealed
- § 44-75.1. Militia state active duty
- § 44-75.2. Militia training duty
- § 44-76. Transportation, equipment and support of militia
- § 44-77. Orders to officers and appointment of rendezvous
- § 44-78. Repealed
- § 44-78.1. Request for assistance by localities
- § 44-79. Repealed
- § 44-80. Order in which classes of militia called into service
- § 44-81. Length of service when called out
- § 44-82. How troops paid while in service; transportation to be furnished; movement of troops and supplies not to be delayed
- § 44-83. Pay and allowance of officers and enlisted persons
- § 44-84. Regulations enforced on actual service
Article 8. UNORGANIZED MILITIA
- § 44-85. Regulations and penalties
- § 44-86. When ordered out for service
- § 44-87. Manner of ordering out for service
- § 44-88. Incorporation into the Virginia Defense Force
- § 44-89. Draft of unorganized militia
- § 44-90. Punishment for failure to appear
Article 9. PAY OF MILITIA
Article 10. PRIVILEGES OF UNITED STATES RESERVE, NATIONAL GUARD, AND NAVAL MILITIA
- § 44-93. Leaves of absence for employees of Commonwealth or political subdivisions
- § 44-93.1. Supplement of military pay and additional life insurance benefits for employees of Commonwealth or political subdivisions
- § 44-93.2. Leaves of absence from nongovernmental employment
- § 44-93.3. Reemployment rights
- § 44-93.4. Discrimination against persons who serve in the Virginia National Guard, Virginia Defense Force, or naval militia; and acts of reprisal prohibited
- § 44-93.5. Penalties for denial
- § 44-94. Exemption from jury duty
- § 44-95. Repealed
- § 44-96. Military property exempt from levy and sale
- § 44-97. Exemption from arrest
- § 44-97.1. Continuance or time for filing pleading, etc., where party or attorney is on active duty
- § 44-98. Interference with employment of members of Virginia National Guard, Virginia Defense Force, or naval militia
- § 44-99. Organizations may own property; suits
- § 44-100. No action allowed on account of military duties; counsel for members sued or prosecuted
- § 44-101. Repealed
- § 44-102. Commission not to vacate civil office
- § 44-102.1. Rights, benefits and protections upon call to active duty
- § 44-102.2. Virginia Military Family Relief Fund established
Article 11. CARE OF MILITARY PROPERTY
- § 44-103. Deposit in armories or headquarters for safekeeping
- § 44-104. Care required and liability of officers
- § 44-105. Repealed
- § 44-106. Upon disbandment of organization, or call into active federal service, commanding officer to return certain property to Adjutant General
- § 44-107. Use for private purposes forbidden
- § 44-108. Officers and enlisted persons personally liable for military property
- § 44-109. Punishment for injuries to military property
- § 44-110. Punishment for sale, etc., of military property
- § 44-111. Replacement of lost or damaged property
Article 12. SUPPORT OF MILITIA
- § 44-112. Requisition for federal funds
- § 44-113. County, city and town appropriations
- § 44-114. Allowances made to organizations from state appropriations
Article 12.1. ORDERS INDUCTING STATE MILITIA INTO FEDERAL SERVICE
- § 44-114.1. Orders transmitted to and through the Governor
- § 44-114.2. Governor to be notified of receipt of order; no action taken until his instructions complied with
- § 44-114.3. Orders void if transmitted to militia before Governor notified
- § 44-114.4. Governor not prevented from drafting into state military service
Article 13. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- § 44-115. Custom and usage of United States army, air force and navy; applicability of ยง 44-40 and Article 4 of this chapter
- § 44-116. Repealed
- § 44-117. Officers of Virginia Military Institute, the Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership at Mary Baldwin College, the Fishburne Military School, the Massanutten Military Academy, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to be officers of
- § 44-117.1. Repealed
- § 44-119. Retired list of officers, warrant officers and enlisted persons
- § 44-120. Protection of the uniform
- § 44-120.1. Manufacture of Virginia military medals and decorations in United States
- § 44-121. Repealed
- § 44-122. Citation of chapter
- § 44-123. Armory Commission abolished; duties, powers and properties transferred
- § 44-123.1. Armory defined
- § 44-123.2. Fort Pickett Reservation created; venue
- § 44-123.3. Fort Pickett Police; powers; duties; functions
- § 44-124. Repealed
- § 44-124.1. Power of Adjutant General to acquire and maintain property
- § 44-125. Repealed
- § 44-129. Joint use of public buildings for armories
- § 44-130. Public grounds for armory building purposes
- § 44-131. Military property exempt from taxation
- § 44-132. Power of condemnation
- § 44-133. Use of armories for meetings of veterans' associations and other organizations
- § 44-134. Management and care of armories and training areas
- § 44-134.1. Repealed
- § 44-135. Repealed
- § 44-135.1. Armory control board for each armory; temporary renting
- § 44-136. Sale or lease of armories
- § 44-137. City and county aid
- § 44-138. Maintenance funds
- § 44-139. Reversions of donations
- § 44-140. Liberal construction
Chapter 3.1. POST-ATTACK RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT [Repealed]
Chapter 3.2. EMERGENCY SERVICES AND DISASTER LAW
- § 44-146.13. Short title
- § 44-146.14. Findings of General Assembly
- § 44-146.15. Construction of chapter
- § 44-146.16. Definitions
- § 44-146.17:1. Transmittal to General Assembly of rules, regulations, and orders
- § 44-146.17:2. Annual statewide drill
- § 44-146.18. Department of Emergency Services continued as Department of Emergency Management; administration and operational control; coordinator and other personnel; powers and duties
- § 44-146.18:1. Virginia Disaster Response Funds disbursements; reimbursements
- § 44-146.18:2. Authority of Coordinator of Emergency Management in undeclared emergency
- § 44-146.18:3. First informer broadcasters; coordination with Department of Emergency Management
- § 44-146.19. Powers and duties of political subdivisions
- § 44-146.20. Joint action by political subdivisions
- § 44-146.21. Declaration of local emergency
- § 44-146.22. Development of measures to prevent or reduce harmful consequences of disasters; disclosure of information
- § 44-146.23. Immunity from liability
- § 44-146.24. Cooperation of public agencies
- § 44-146.25. Certain persons not to be employed or associated in emergency services organizations; loyalty oath required
- § 44-146.26. Duties of emergency management organizations
- § 44-146.27. Supplementing federal funds; assistance of federal agencies; acceptance of gifts and services; appropriations by local governing bodies
- § 44-146.28. Authority of Governor and agencies under his control in declared state of emergency
- § 44-146.29. Expired
- § 44-146.29:1. Expired
Chapter 3.4. FUNDING FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
- § 44-146.31. Definitions
- § 44-146.32. One-time and annual fees
- § 44-146.33. Radiological Emergency Preparedness Fund
- § 44-146.34. Purpose; definitions
- § 44-146.35. Powers and duties of the Department of Emergency Management
- § 44-146.36. Coordinator to enter into agreements with political subdivisions; immunity from liability
- § 44-146.37. Disbursements made from Virginia Disaster Response Fund
- § 44-146.38. Political subdivisions to appoint hazardous materials coordinator
- § 44-146.39. Repealed
- § 44-146.40. Virginia Emergency Response Council created; membership; responsibilities; immunity for local councils
- § 44-147. Authorization of precautions
- § 44-148. Nonliability for damages
- § 44-149. Appointment of special officers
- § 44-150. Violations of regulations
- § 44-151. When chapter in effect
- § 44-152. Outside service by fire departments
- § 44-153. Powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities
- § 44-154. Loss, damages, expense or cost
- § 44-155. Liability for acts or omissions
- § 44-156. Reimbursement for salaries and expenses
- § 44-157. Temporary substitute fire-fighting forces
- § 44-158. Rules and regulations
- § 44-159. When chapter in effect
Chapter 7. MISCELLANEOUS LAWS
- § 44-204. Leaves of absence for employees of Commonwealth or political subdivisions
- § 44-205. Traffic regulations
- § 44-206. Issuing agents for sale of obligations of United States
- § 44-207. Laws continued in effect
- § 44-208. Securing site of structural failure, fire, explosion, or industrial or transportation accident
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