TITLE VIII
PUBLIC DEFENSE AND VETERANS' AFFAIRS

CHAPTER 110-B
DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS AND VETERANS SERVICES

Officers, Warrant Officers and Enlisted Personnel

Section 110-B:20

    110-B:20 Qualifications of Officers, Warrant Officers and Enlisted Personnel. –
I. No person shall be appointed or promoted as a commissioned officer or warrant officer of the national guard unless such person shall have passed such examination as to his physical, moral and professional qualifications as may be prescribed by this chapter and the regulations issued thereunder.
II. Any person who has been dismissed or dishonorably discharged from the organized militia of this or any other state or from the armed forces of the United States and has not been restored to duty, or any commissioned officer or warrant officer who was discharged from the national guard as a result of the findings of an efficiency examining board or whose resignation from the national guard was accepted by the governor at a time when such officer was under arrest or under charges for the commission of an offense involving moral turpitude or punishable by a court-martial, shall not be eligible for appointment as a commissioned officer or warrant officer in the national guard.
III. Every commissioned officer or warrant officer shall take and subscribe the oaths of office prescribed for officers of the national guard by the laws of this state.

Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.