§ 38.38.004. Definitions
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Organized militia" means the national guard of the state, as defined in section 101(3) of title 32, United States Code, and any other military force organized under the laws of the state of Washington.
(2) "Officer" means commissioned or warrant officer.
(3) "Commissioned officer" includes a commissioned warrant officer.
(4) "Commanding officer" includes only commissioned officers in command of a unit.
(5) "Superior commissioned officer" means a commissioned officer superior in rank or command.
(6) "Enlisted member" means a person in an enlisted grade.
(7) "Grade" means a step or degree, in a graduated scale of office or military rank, that is established and designated as a grade by law or regulation.
(8) "Rank" means the order of precedence among members of the organized militia.
(9) The term "active state service" or "active training duty" shall be construed to be any service on behalf of the state, or at encampments whether ordered by state or federal authority or any other duty requiring the entire time of any organization or person except when called or drafted into the federal service by the president of the United States.
The term "inactive duty" shall include periods of drill and such other training and service not requiring the entire time of the organization or person, as may be required under state or federal laws, regulations, or orders, including travel to and from such duty.
(10) "Military court" means a court-martial or a court of inquiry.
(11) "Military judge" means the presiding officer of a general or special court-martial detailed in accordance with RCW 38.38.256.
(12) "State judge advocate" means the commissioned officer responsible for supervising the administration of the military justice in the organized militia.
(13) "Accuser" means a person who signs and swears to charges, any person who directs that charges nominally be signed and sworn to by another, and any person who has an interest other than an official interest in the prosecution of the accused.
(14) "Military" refers to any or all of the armed forces.
(15) "Convening authority" includes, in addition to the person who convened the court, a commissioned officer commanding for the time being, or a successor in command.
(16) "May" is used in a permissive sense. The words "no person may. . ." mean that no person is required, authorized, or permitted to do the act prescribed.
(17) "Shall" is used in an imperative sense.
(18) "Code" means this chapter.
(19) "A month's pay" or fraction thereof shall be calculated based upon a member's basic pay entitlement as if the member were serving for a thirty-day period.
[1989 c 48 § 1; 1963 c 220 § 1.]
Notes:
Effective date -- 1963 c 220: "This act shall take effect on July 1, 1963." [1963 c 220 § 140.] For codification of 1963 c 220, see Codification Tables, Volume 0.
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