NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1095

HOUSE BILL 948

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 127-23, RELATING TO THE APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS IN THE NORTH CAROLINA RESERVE MILITIA AT QUALIFIED EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 127-23 is hereby amended and rewritten to read as follows:

"G.S. 127-23.  Commissions for Commandants and Officers at Qualified Educational Institutions. The Governor of North Carolina is authorized to appoint and commission, as staff officers of the North Carolina Reserve Militia, the officers of any university, college, academy or other educational institution which qualifies as herein provided. Any university, college, academy or other educational institution shall be deemed qualified under this Section when such institution has been regularly incorporated under and by virtue of the laws of North Carolina; the institution, as a part of its courses of study, regularly teaches military science and tactics; the Department of Defense at Washington, D.C. has detailed an officer of the Armed Forces as professor or assistant professor of military science and tactics; the institution has been designated as qualified by the Secretary of the appropriate service and has been made a unit of the Senior or Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or the institution, not having a unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, has been approved and authorized by the Secretary of Defense to participate in the National Defense Cadet Corps Training Program or other military training programs under Title 10, United States Code, Sections 3540 and 4651.

"Any qualified institution desiring the appointment of officers in the North Carolina Reserve Militia shall make application to the Governor setting forth all requisite facts as to its qualifications, the names of the persons to be commissioned, the rank desired for each, and the person's position at the institution. The application shall be signed by the chancellor, president, superintendent or other presiding official, under the seal of the institution. Upon receipt of the application, the Governor may appoint and commission the officers of such qualified institution as follows: The chancellor, president, superintendent or other presiding official, as Colonel; the vice president, principal or other officer second in authority, as Major; the male professors and members of the faculty, as Captains. The persons so commissioned shall have no connection with the National Guard or other military forces of the State, nor shall they exercise any military authority other than in the discharge of their duties at their respective institutions. The commissions issued under this Section may be terminated at the will of the Governor.

"The Governor may annually appoint a committee of three members, one of whom shall be appointed on the recommendation of the Adjutant General, one on the recommendation of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and one on the recommendation of the Director of the State Board of Health, with a view to their proficiency in the several departments indicated, and the said committee shall during the school year, and while the said institutions are in session, visit all of the said educational institutions and make a thorough inspection of their miltary departments, their discipline, courses of study and educational departments, and their sanitary condition, and report to the Governor the result of said inspection."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of June, 1963.