§ 30-3-1 Composition and organization
§ 30-3-2 Emergency increase
§ 30-3-3 Protection of designations
§ 30-3-4 Personnel of disbanded organizations
§ 30-3-5 Minimum strength of organizations
§ 30-3-6 Unit funds
§ 30-3-7 Appropriation for unit funds
§ 30-3-8 Inactive national guard
§ 30-3-9 Qualifications of officers
§ 30-3-10 Appointment and assignment of officers
§ 30-3-11 Classes from which commissioned officers selected
§ 30-3-12 Oath of officers
§ 30-3-13 Previous military experience of officers – Retirement – Vacancies
§ 30-3-14 Qualifications of medical officers, judge advocates, and chaplains
§ 30-3-15 Qualifications of warrant officers
§ 30-3-16 Resignation of officers
§ 30-3-17 Uniforms and equipment of officers
§ 30-3-18 Allowances for guard officers
§ 30-3-19 Allowances for staff officers
§ 30-3-20 Relative rank of officers
§ 30-3-21 Efficiency boards
§ 30-3-22 Physical fitness boards
§ 30-3-23 Dismissal of officers
§ 30-3-24 Discharge of officers
§ 30-3-25 Revocation of commission or warrant – Right to trial by court-martial
§ 30-3-26 Unassigned list of officers
§ 30-3-27 Qualifications of enlisted persons
§ 30-3-28 Transfer of enlisted persons
§ 30-3-29 Means of separation of enlisted persons
§ 30-3-30 Causes for discharge of enlisted persons
§ 30-3-31 Dishonorable discharge of enlisted persons
§ 30-3-32 Form of discharge of enlisted persons – Discharge prior to expiration of enlistment
§ 30-3-33 Promotion and reduction of enlisted persons
§ 30-3-34 Detail of retired enlisted persons to duty
§ 30-3-35 Oath of enlistment – False statements
§ 30-3-36 Retirement or discharge of national guard at maximum age
§ 30-3-37 Retirement of enlisted persons
§ 30-3-38 Retirement of officers
§ 30-3-39 Disability retirement
§ 30-3-40 Entitlement to educational benefits
§ 30-3-40.1 Limitations and distribution of educational benefits
§ 30-3-40.2 Termination of educational benefits
§ 30-3-40.3 Educational benefits for National Guard members
§ 30-3-40.4 Payment of life insurance premiums
§ 30-3-40.5 Tuition to children of National Guard members dying as a result of service
§ 30-3-41 The Rhode Island Military Family Relief Fund

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 30-3 - National Guard

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • oath: includes affirmation; the word "sworn" includes affirmed; and the word "engaged" includes either sworn or affirmed. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-11
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8