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Chapter 1 - Active Military Duty
§ 49–101. Drill, parade, encampment or required duty - Any drill, parade, encampment or duty that is required, ordered,...
§ 49–102. Prescribing drills - The Commanding General shall prescribe such stated drills and parades...
§ 49–103. Suppression of riots - When there is in the District of Columbia a tumult,...
§ 49–104. Excuse for physical disability; penalty for absence - No officer or soldier of the National Guard, when ordered...
§ 49–105. Parades to have right-of-way - The United States forces or troops, or any portion of...
§ 49–106. Rules for parades and encampments - Every commanding officer, when on duty, may ascertain and fix...
§ 49–107. Camp duty - The National Guard shall perform not less than 6 consecutive...
Chapter 2 - Armament, Equipment, and Supplies
§ 49–201. Issuance by Department of Army - The uniforms, arms, and equipments of the National Guard shall...
§ 49–202. Regulations for reissue of equipment by Commanding General - The Commanding General may transfer all public property, received by...
§ 49–203. Personal liability for equipment; determination of value of lost equipment - Every officer and enlisted man to whom property of the...
§ 49–204. Returns of equipment - Every officer receiving public property for military use shall be...
§ 49–205. Penalty for selling, pawning, injuring, or retaining public property - Any officer or soldier who shall sell, dispose of, pawn...
§ 49–206. Transfer of property on promotion, retirement, or dismissal - Upon the promotion, tender of resignation, retirement, or dismissal of...
§ 49–207. Failure to transfer property; verification by surveying officer - Should any officer responsible or accountable for public property, after...
§ 49–208. Defective accounts; surveying officer to fix responsibility - Should any officer responsible or accountable for public property, after...
§ 49–209. Surveying officer to be appointed upon death or desertion of accounting officer - In the event of the death or desertion of any...
§ 49–210. Liability of officer or his estate until accounts are found correct - Until an officer or his legal representative shall have received...
§ 49–211. Liability of officer’s estate for property lost, injured, or destroyed - Compensation for any public property defaced, injured, lost, or destroyed...
§ 49–212. Distinctive uniforms - Any organization of the active militia may, with the approval...
§ 49–213. Right to own personal property; actions for injuries - Organizations of the National Guard shall have the right to...
§ 49–214. Armories to be provided - The Quartermaster General of the militia shall provide, by rental...
§ 49–215. Annual inspections - An annual inspection and muster of each organization of the...
§ 49–216. Use of Fort Lesley J. McNair - National Guard shall have the use of the drill grounds...
§ 49–217. Purchase of supplies - The purchase of supplies and the procurement of services for...
Chapter 3 - Commissioned Officers
§ 49–301. Commanding General - (a) There shall be appointed and commissioned by the President...
§ 49–302. Staff officers; noncommissioned staff - The staff of the militia of the District of Columbia...
§ 49–303. Qualifications of staff officers; tenure; vacancies - It is hereby provided that staff officers, including officers of...
§ 49–304. Adjutant General - The President may assign an officer of the Army to...
§ 49–305. Officers - All officers shall be commissioned by the President of the...
§ 49–306. Officers of staff departments - The officers of the staff departments, staff corps, and the...
§ 49–307. Filling vacancies above the grade of 2nd lieutenant - Vacancies occurring in the cavalry, coast artillery corps, field artillery,...
§ 49–308. Appointments to grade of 2nd lieutenant - All appointments to the grade of 2nd lieutenant shall be...
§ 49–309. Examinations for promotion; failure to appear; retirement for disability - The Commanding General is authorized to prescribe a system of...
§ 49–310. Examinations for 2nd lieutenants - The Commanding General is authorized to prescribe a system of...
§ 49–311. Special examination of officer’s capability - (a) Whenever, in the opinion of the Commanding General of...
§ 49–312. Retirement of commissioned officer - Any commissioned officer in the National Guard of the District...
§ 49–313. Discharge of commissioned officer - (a) A commissioned officer may be honorably discharged: (1) Upon...
Chapter 4 - Composition, Organization, and Control
Subchapter I - General
§ 49–401. Militia; persons to be enrolled - Every able-bodied male citizen resident within the District of Columbia,...
§ 49–402. Exemptions from service - In addition to the persons exempted from enrollment in the...
§ 49–403. Assessors to make list of persons liable to enrollment - The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall provide for...
§ 49–404. Duty of enrolled militia; police and fire department personnel - The enrolled militia shall not be subject to any duty...
§ 49–405. Ordering enrolled militia into service - Whenever it shall be necessary to call out any portion...
§ 49–406. Organized militia; volunteer service; designation - The organized militia shall be composed of volunteers, and shall...
§ 49–407. Reserve corps; organization; composition - A reserve corps of the National Guard of the District...
§ 49–408. Disbanding companies below minimum strength - When any company of the National Guard shall, for a...
§ 49–409. President to be Commander-in-Chief - The President of the United States shall be the Commander-in-Chief...
Subchapter II - Associations and Corporations
§ 49–431. District of Columbia National Guard Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Association - (a) All commissioned officers, warrant officers, and enlisted personnel of...
§ 49–432. Military corporations; establishment, membership, purpose, and powers - (a) The officers, the enlisted personnel, or the officers and...
§ 49–433. Unit and company funds - (a)(1) There is authorized to be created and maintained for...
§ 49–434. Youth ChalleNGe Participant Support Fund - (a) The Commanding General of the DCNG may establish a...
Chapter 5 - Courts-Martial
§ 49–501. Designation of military courts - The military courts of the District of Columbia shall be:...
§ 49–502. Courts of inquiry - Courts of inquiry, to consist of not more than 3...
§ 49–503. General courts-martial - General courts-martial for the trial of commissioned officers or enlisted...
§ 49–504. Constitution; jurisdiction; procedure - The constitution and jurisdiction of military courts, the form and...
§ 49–505. Prosecution of members prohibited - No action or proceeding shall be prosecuted or maintained against...
§ 49–506. Jurisdiction to be presumed - The jurisdiction of the courts and boards established by this...
§ 49–507. Witnesses; compulsory attendance - Every person not belonging to the National Guard of the...
§ 49–508. Execution of sentences - The sentences of said courts, whether of fine or imprisonment,...
§ 49–509. Warrants for arrest of accused - Whenever it shall appear to a regularly constituted court-martial convened...
Chapter 6 - Enlisted Personnel
§ 49–601. Discharge without honor - An enlisted man may be discharged without honor at any...
§ 49–602. Dishonorable discharge - An enlisted man shall be dishonorably discharged by order of...
Chapter 7 - Noncommissioned Officers
§ 49–701. Appointment; reduction to ranks - The commanding officers of regiments and battalions not part of...
Chapter 8 - Miscellaneous Provisions
§ 49–801. Duties of officers - The departmental and military duties of the officers provided for...
§ 49–802. Date of commissions - Any commission issuing under the provisions of this subtitle shall,...
§ 49–803. Companies, battalions, or regiments authorized to make rules - Companies, battalions, or regiments may adopt constitutional articles of agreement...
§ 49–804. System of discipline and field exercise - The system of discipline and field exercise ordered to be...
§ 49–805. Commanding General authorized to make regulations - The Commanding General, subject to the approval of the Commander-in-Chief,...
§ 49–806. Naval battalion not affected - Nothing contained in this subtitle shall be held to alter...
§ 49–807. National Guard tuition assistance benefits - Any funds contributed by the District of Columbia to the...
Chapter 9 - Pay and Allowances
§ 49–901. Active service - Whenever the National Guard of the District of Columbia shall...
§ 49–902. General expenses - There shall be allowed for the general expenses of the...
§ 49–903. Musicians - (a) During the annual encampment, and on every duty on...
§ 49–904. Subsistence stores - During the annual encampment, or when ordered on duty to...
§ 49–905. Annual estimates - The Commanding General shall annually transmit to the Mayor of...
§ 49–906. Deductions for lost property; officers’ clothing; use of fines and appropriations - All moneys collected on account of deductions made from the...
Chapter 10 - Office of Veterans Affairs
§ 49–1001. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) “Benefit”...
§ 49–1002. Establishment of the Office of Veterans Affairs; appointment of Director; compensation of Director; organization - (a) There is established an Office of Veterans Affairs (“Office”)....
§ 49–1003. Purposes of the Office of Veterans Affairs - The primary purpose of the Office is to provide advocacy...
§ 49–1004. Establishment of the Office of Veterans Affairs Fund - (a) There is established an Office of Veterans Affairs Fund...
§ 49–1005. Transfers; abolishment - (a) All positions, property, records, and allocations available or to...
§ 49–1006. Rulemaking - In accordance with subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title...
Chapter 11 - Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
§ 49–1101.01. Adoption of Compact - The District of Columbia adopts the Interstate Compact on Educational...
§ 49–1101.02. Purpose and policy - It is the purpose of the Interstate Compact on Educational...
§ 49–1101.03. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter, unless the context clearly...
§ 49–1101.04. Applicability - (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this...
§ 49–1101.05. Educational records and enrollment - (a) If official educational records cannot be released to the...
§ 49–1101.06. Placement and attendance - (a)(1) When a student transfers before or during the school...
§ 49–1101.07. Eligibility for enrollment - (a) Special power of attorney, relative to the guardianship of...
§ 49–1101.08. Graduation - (a) To facilitate the on-time graduation of children of military...
§ 49–1101.09. Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children - (a) The member states hereby create the Interstate Commission on...
§ 49–1101.10. Powers and duties of the Interstate Commission - The Interstate Commission shall have the power to: (1) Provide...
§ 49–1101.11. Organization and operation of the Interstate Commission - (a) The Interstate Commission shall, by a majority of the...
§ 49–1101.12. Rulemaking functions of the Interstate Commission - (a) The Interstate Commission shall promulgate reasonable rules to effectively...
§ 49–1101.13. Oversight, enforcement, and dispute resolution - (a)(1) The executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government...
§ 49–1101.14. Financing of the Interstate Commission - (a) The Interstate Commission shall pay, or provide for the...
§ 49–1101.15. Local agency participation - (a) Each member state shall, through the creation of a...
§ 49–1101.16. Member states, effective date, and amendment - (a) Any state is eligible to become a member state....
§ 49–1101.17. Withdrawal and dissolution - (a) Once effective, the compact shall continue in force and...
§ 49–1101.18. Severability and construction - (a) The provisions of this compact shall be severable, and...
§ 49–1101.19. Binding effect of compact and other laws - (a) Nothing in this chapter prevents the enforcement of any...
§ 49–1101.20. District of Columbia State Interstate Compact Council - (a) There is established the District of Columbia Educational Opportunity...