Title 59, Title 59. Veterans-Military Affairs

(A)(1) Permanent public employees who are members of the Ohio organized militia or members of other reserve components of the armed forces of the United States, including the Ohio national guard, are entitled to a leave of absence from their respective positions without loss of p…

Notwithstanding sections 1751.54, 3923.381, and 3923.382 of the Revised Code, the state and any agency, authority, commission, or board of the state, at the request of any person who is employed by the state or any of those entities who is called or ordered to duty as described i…

Each enlisted member and each commissioned or warrant officer of the Ohio military reserve or Ohio naval militia, if funds are appropriated for this purpose by the general assembly, may be paid at rates to be prescribed by the adjutant general but not exceeding one-thirtieth of t…

(A) If any enlisted member in the Ohio organized militia willfully, maliciously, purposely, or through carelessness or neglect, permits any of the arms, equipment, or other property issued to the enlisted member belonging to the state or the United States, to become lost, damaged…

When ordered to state active duty by the governor, for which duty federal basic pay and allowances are not authorized, members of the organized militia of Ohio shall receive the same pay and allowances for each day's service as is provided for commissioned officers, warrant offic…

The adjutant general shall make such regulations, require such bonds and reports, and furnish such blank forms as he deems necessary to carry out sections 5923.09 and 5923.12 of the Revised Code.

Payments under sections 5923.09 and 5923.12 of the Revised Code shall be made on such forms as directed by and upon the voucher of the adjutant general out of moneys in the treasury appropriated for that purpose. The necessary commissary and quartermaster stores, medical supplies…

The adjutant general shall direct the assistant quartermaster general in the procurement, accounting, and maintenance of all military stores purchased by the state. He shall direct the issue of such stores to the organizations and units of the Ohio national guard or the Ohio mili…

The adjutant general, after the appropriations are made for that purpose, may purchase and keep ready for use, or issue to the Ohio national guard or the Ohio military reserve, as the best interests of the service require, such amount and kind of camp and garrison equipage as are…

When military stores belonging to the state become unserviceable, the adjutant general may convene a board of survey consisting of not less than three commissioned officers of the Ohio national guard or the Ohio military reserve as the adjutant general deems proper, who shall ins…

The adjutant general may sell condemned military stores belonging to the state, the sums realized from the sales to be turned into the state treasury, to be credited to any fund appropriated for the use of the Ohio national guard or the Ohio military reserve as determined at the …

Upon the request of the adjutant general, there shall be appropriated and allowed annually such sums as the adjutant general shall determine to be necessary for the care of military property and other incidental expenses of each organization and unit of the Ohio national guard.Th…

(A) The Ohio organized militia may be called by the governor by proclamation to aid the civil authorities to do any of the following:(1) Execute the laws of this state;(2) Suppress insurrection;(3) Repel invasion;(4) Act in the event of a disaster, as defined in section 5502.21 o…

(A) Whenever the governor determines that the organized militia may lawfully be called to duty under section 5923.21 of the Revised Code, the governor may order any unit of the organized militia, or any part or individual of the organized militia, to state active duty to aid civi…

(A) When members of the organized militia are called to state active duty by the governor, the orders shall state in general terms the objectives to be accomplished and with which agencies of civil authority the accomplishment of these objectives shall be coordinated. The mission…

After issuing an order to duty pursuant to section 5923.21 of the Revised Code, the governor, if in his judgment any breakdown of law and order impends, may by proclamation, declare that the organized militia under the command of the governor shall execute the laws and keep the p…

(A) No member of the organized militia called to state active duty shall be arrested on any warrant, except for treason or felony, while going to, performing, or returning from such duty.(B) A member of the organized militia called to state active duty to aid the civil authoritie…

(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, the military laws of this state shall conform to all laws of and regulations promulgated by the United States affecting the same subject and anything to the contrary is void if the subject matter has been acted on by the arm…

The adjutant general shall cause an inventory to be made of all unexpendable military property of each organization of the organized militia which is purchased from state funds or otherwise belongs to the state, and a separate inventory of the property received from the federal g…

Whenever it is ascertained by the adjutant general that any officer of the organized militia is unable to properly account for the property or moneys in the officer's possession, the adjutant general shall give immediate notice thereof to the attorney general for action against s…

No person shall advise or endeavor to persuade an officer or soldier of the organized militia not to appear at the place of assembly when such officer or soldier has been lawfully required to do so in conformity with the laws for the suppression of tumults, riots, and mobs, or sh…

No person shall sell, dispose of, conceal, detain, or refuse to give up arms or property belonging to this state, or money or other property belonging to an organization or unit organized according to law.

No person shall wear any uniform or any device, strap, knot, or insignia of any design or character used as a designation of rank, grade, or office, such as by law or by general regulation promulgated or prescribed for the use of the organized militia of Ohio.This section does no…

The organized militia shall be governed and disciplined by the military laws of the state, the orders of the commander in chief, acts of congress of the United States pertaining to the organized militia enacted pursuant to the constitution of the United States, and the Ohio code …

Any civil proceedings brought against any member of the organized militia alleging an act of willful or wanton misconduct, which alleged act was performed when the member was under duty status pursuant to state authority at a time of public danger, shall be commenced within two y…

(A) No member of the organized militia ordered to state active duty shall be liable in negligence for any act performed within the scope of the member's duties. Any action alleging that such a militia member's conduct was outside the scope of the member's employment, was maliciou…

(A) Whoever violates section 5923.31 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.(B) Whoever violates section 5923.32 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not …