20-2-8. Honorary promotion upon retirement.
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Members of the organized militia may be promoted by the governor to the next higher grade on the occasion of their retirement from service under the following conditions:
A. that the member has honorably served either a total of thirty years in the federal military or organized militia combined or a minimum of twenty years in the organized militia, provided that no period of less than ten years in the state defense force shall be credited toward either of these requirements; and
B. that the honorary promotion be requested by the member and be favorably recommended by the adjutant general.
History: 1978 Comp., § 20-2-8, enacted by Laws 1987, ch. 318, § 15.