California Military and Veterans Code ARTICLE 2 - Officers

• Section 220.
  All officers shall be commissioned by the Governor. All appointments of officers shall be made and all vacancies shall be filled in the manner provided...
• Section 221.
  All officers duly commissioned shall take the oath of office prescribed by the laws of the United States relating to the appointment and recognition of...
• Section 222.
  Persons to be commissioned in the National Guard shall be selected from those eligible for federal recognition in accordance with Army and Air National Guard...
• Section 223.
  All officers, warrant officers, and enlisted men and women of the militia and all persons on duty with the militia shall give any bonds and...
• Section 224.
  Rank: How Determined. All officers of the National Guard shall take rank according to the date assigned them by their commissions, which date shall be...
• Section 225.
  Warrant officers of the National Guard shall be appointed by the Governor. The classes of persons from which warrant officers may be appointed shall be...
• Section 226.
  Every officer shall provide himself with the arms, uniforms, and equipment prescribed and approved by the Governor.(Amended by Stats. 1963, Ch. 120.)
• Section 227.
  When an officer of the National Guard is sixty-four years of age, he shall be retired from active service and placed on the retired list.(Enacted...
• Section 228.
  (a) A commissioned or warrant officer of the California National Guard who has served 20 years in the active service of the state may, on application,...
• Section 229.
  When a board of officers finds that an officer is incapacitated for active service, and that his or her incapacity is the result of an...
• Section 230.
  The Governor may detail, with their own consent, officers or noncommissioned officers of the retired list to active duty and return them to the retired...
• Section 231.
  The provisions of sections 232 to 237, inclusive, shall apply with equal force to commissioned officers of the National Guard and the unorganized militia when...
• Section 232.
  The commission of an officer shall be vacated by death, by acceptance by proper authority of resignation, by discharge on account of inefficiency, for physical...
• Section 232.5.
  An officer who resides outside this state shall be permitted to transfer to the National Guard of any other state or territory or to the...
• Section 233.
  An officer who desires to resign shall submit his resignation to the Governor, whose action thereon shall be final. The Governor may refuse to accept...
• Section 234.
  At any time the moral character, capacity, and general fitness for service of an officer may be determined by an efficiency board. The board shall...
• Section 235.
  At any time the physical fitness for service of an officer may be determined by a board of three medical officers, which shall be appointed...
• Section 236.
  An officer absent without leave for a period of three months shall, with the approval of the Governor, be discharged. Such discharge shall be a...
• Section 237.
  An officer may be dismissed from the service only by sentence of a general court-martial, which sentence is approved by the Governor.(Enacted by Stats. 1935,...
• Section 238.
  No officer who has been dismissed from the military or naval service of the State shall be permitted again to enter the military or naval...
• Section 239.
  The Governor may assign, reassign, or transfer commissioned officers and warrant officers from one organization to another or to the retired or the reserve list...

Last modified: October 22, 2018