Responsibility for Military Property or Funds; Bond; Pay Deductions for Lost or Damaged Equipment; Action by Attorney General to Recover Damages

  1. Law
  2. Georgia Code
  3. Military, Emergency Management, and Veterans Affairs
  4. Military Affairs
  5. State Militia Generally
  6. Organized Militia
  7. Responsibility for Military Property or Funds; Bond; Pay Deductions for Lost or Damaged Equipment; Action by Attorney General to Recover Damages

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  1. Military property of the state and of the United States shall be issued, safeguarded, maintained, accounted for, inventoried, inspected, surveyed, and disposed of as provided in applicable laws of the United States, regulations issued thereunder, and regulations issued pursuant to this chapter.
  2. Every officer of the organized militia responsible for military property or funds of the state or of the United States shall give bond with good and sufficient security to the state in such amount as shall be determined and approved by the adjutant general, conditioned upon the safekeeping, proper use and care, and prompt surrender of the property or funds for which the officer may be properly responsible. The premiums for such bonds are to be paid from the funds of the Military Division, Department of Defense.
  3. When military property is lost, damaged, or destroyed through the negligence or fault of a member of the organized militia, the amount determined as the value of the property or the cost of repairing the same may be collected from any pay or allowance due or to become due him from the state.
  4. An action may be maintained in the name of the state in any court having jurisdiction thereof by the Attorney General upon the request of the adjutant general to recover from a member or former member of the organized militia found responsible for military property lost, damaged, or destroyed through his negligence or fault, the amount determined as the value of the property or the cost of repairing the same.

(Ga. L. 1916, p. 158, § 3; Code 1933, §§ 86-1101, 86-1102, 86-1103; Ga. L. 1955, p. 10, § 39.)


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