Title V, Military Affairs

(1) 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 D…

The Governor shall be commander in chief of the Kentucky active militia, and the adjutant general shall be the executive officer and shall be responsible to the Governor for the proper functioning of the Kentucky active militia, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to take n…

Enlistment and discharge of men. (1) The Governor of Kentucky is hereby authorized to appoint and commission the necessary officers for the Kentucky active militia. The adjutant general of the state with the approval of the Governor shall prescribe rules and regulations governing…

All officers and enlisted men of the Kentucky active militia shall take an oath similar to that required to be taken by commissioned officers and enlisted men of the National Guard. Said oath when duly subscribed to shall be filed with and preserved by the adjutant general of Ken…

Companies and other units of the Kentucky active militia are hereby authorized to drill, to parade and to have all other ceremonies, privileges and rights in regard to such matters, within the state, as is authorized by law for the National Guard.

Commanding and staff officers of organizations and units are hereby authorized to make such visits of instruction and inspection, when authorized by the adjutant general to do so, as in his discretion may be necessary. When making said visits they may be compensated as provided i…

The Governor is hereby authorized to call and to assign any part of the Kentucky active militia to active service for the purpose of resisting invasion, suppressing rebellions, insurrections, riots, or threats thereof; to suppress any active, unlawful, or threatened violence to p…

Officers and enlisted men of the Kentucky active militia when ordered on active duty as prescribed herein shall have the right to carry arms. All officers and enlisted men shall have the right to carry arms at any drill or ceremony.

Officers and enlisted men of the Kentucky active militia ordered into active service by proper authority shall not be liable civilly or criminally for any act or acts legally done in the pursuance of their duty in such service.

Officers and enlisted men of the Kentucky active militia shall be subject to the code of military justice as set forth in KRS Chapter 35.

Officers and enlisted men, when employed in active state service as defined in subsection (4) of KRS 38.010, beginning with the day they assemble at their armories or other designated place until the day they return thereto and have been properly relieved, inclusive, fractional p…

The Department of Military Affairs shall accept the provisions of KRS Chapter 342 for the benefit of members of the Kentucky active militia while such members are on active state service.

course of duty. If any member of the active militia, when on duty or assembled therefor under competent authority or lawful order, shall do any act in the discharge of his duty, the doing of which causes him to be proceeded against by civil court action, it shall be the duty of t…

Any person, other than a member of the Kentucky active militia, who shall wear any uniform or insignia or badge duly authorized as a designation of an officer or an enlisted man of the Kentucky active militia, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be p…