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Code · Kentucky · Chapter 35 — Military justice

35.010 Definitions for chapter.

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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)"State" means one
(1)of the several states, the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the United States Virgin Islands;
(2)"Cadet," "candidate," or "midshipman" means a person who is enrolled in or
attending a state military academy, a regional training institute, or any other formal
education program for the purpose of becoming a commissioned officer in the state
military forces;
(3)"Officer" means a commissioned or warrant officer;
(4)"Superior commissioned officer" means a commissioned officer superior in rank or
command;
(5)"Enlisted member" means a person in an enlisted grade;
(6)"State active duty" means full-time military duty in the state military forces under
an order of the Governor or otherwise issued by authority of law, and paid by state
funds, and includes travel to and from the duty;
(7)"Military court" means a court-martial or a court of inquiry;
(8)"Military judge" means an official of a general and special court-martial detailed in
accordance with KRS 35.125;
(9)"Classified information" means:
(a)Any information or material that has been determined by an official of the
United States or any state pursuant to law, an executive order, or regulation to
require protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of national or
state security; and
(b)Any restricted data, as defined in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 42 U.S.C.
sec. 2014(y);
(10)"Code" means this chapter;
(11)"National security" means the national defense and foreign relations of the United
States;
(12)"Commanding officer" includes only commissioned officers of the state military
forces and shall include officers in charge only when administering nonjudicial
punishment under KRS 35.070. The term "commander" has the same meaning
unless the context otherwise requires;
(13)"Day" means:
(a)For the purpose of pay, one
(1)day equals one
(1)unit training assembly; and
(b)For all other purposes, one
(1)day equals one
(1)calendar day;
(14)"Record," when used in connection with the proceedings of a court-martial, means:
(a)An official written transcript, written summary, or other writing relating to the
proceedings; or
(b)An official audiotape, videotape, digital image or file, or similar material from
which sound, or sound and visual images, depicting the proceedings may be
reproduced;
(15)"Duty status other than state active duty" means any other type of duty not in federal
service and not full-time in the active service of the state, under an order issued by
authority of law and includes travel to and from the duty;
(16)"Judge advocate" means a commissioned officer of the organized state military
forces who is a member in good standing of the bar of the highest court of a state,
and is:
(a)Certified or designated as a judge advocate in the Judge Advocate General's
Corps of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, or a
reserve component of one
(1)of these; or
(b)Certified as a non-federally recognized judge advocate, under regulations
promulgated pursuant to this provision, by the senior judge advocate of the
commander of the force in the state military forces of which the accused is a
member, as competent to perform those military justice duties required by this
code. If there is no judge advocate available, then the certification may be
made by a senior judge advocate of the commander of another force in the
state military forces, as the convening authority directs;
(17)"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 other person
who has an interest other than an official interest in the prosecution of the accused;
(18)"Military" refers to any or all of the Armed Forces;
(19)"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 to
the convening authority;
(20)"Officer in charge" means a member of the naval militia, the Navy, the Marine
Corps, or the Coast Guard designated as such by appropriate authority;
(21)"Senior force commander" means the commander of the same force of the state
military forces as the accused;
(22)"Senior force judge advocate" means the senior judge advocate of the commander
of the same force of the state military forces as the accused and who is that
commander's chief legal advisor;
(23)"State military forces" means the Kentucky National Guard as defined in Title 32 of
the United States Code and as organized under the Constitution and laws of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky. The unorganized militia, state defense force, state
national guard, home guard, or any other name of any state force that does not meet
this definition shall not be part of the "state military forces" under this code; and
(24)"Military offenses" means those offenses prescribed under KRS 35.440, 35.442,
35.450, 35.451, 35.470, 35.471, 35.472, 35.473, 35.474, 35.4751, 35.476, 35.478,
35.481, 35.486, 35.491, 35.575, 35.577, 35.580, 35.585, 35.590, 35.595, 35.600,
35.605, 35.609, 35.614, 35.620, 35.625, 35.630, 35.635, 35.637, 35.640, 35.642,
35.645, 35.650, 35.652, 35.654, 35.657, 35.660, 35.665, 35.671, 35.679, 35.681,
35.683, 35.685, 35.690, 35.725, 35.727, and 35.730.
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