33-3-11 - General powers and duties of Adjutant General.
§ 33-3-11. General powers and duties of Adjutant General.
The Adjutant General shall:
(a) Appoint all of the employees of his department and he may remove any of them at his discretion;
(b) Keep rosters of all active, reserve and retired members of the militia of this state, and keep in his office all records and papers required to be kept and filed therein;
(c) Submit to the Governor in each year preceding a regular session of the Legislature a printed detailed report of the transactions of his office, the expenses thereof, and such operations and conditions of the National Guard of this state as may be required by the Governor;
(d) Cause the military law, the regulations of the National Guard of this state and such other military publications as may be necessary for the military service to be distributed at the expense of the state to commands so that all personnel of the National Guard of this state will have access to same;
(e) Keep records on and preserve all military property belonging to the state;
(f) Keep just and true accounts of all monies received and disbursed by him;
(g) Attest all commissions and warrants issued to military officers of this state;
(h) Have a seal;
(i) Make such regulations pertaining to the preparations of reports and returns and to the care and preservation of property in possession of the state for military purposes, whether belonging to the state or the United States, as in his opinion the conditions demand;
(j) Attend the care, preservation, safekeeping, transportation and repairing of the arms, ordnance, accouterments, equipment and all other military property belonging to the state or issued to the state by the government of the United States for military purposes, and keep accurate accounts thereof;
(k) Issue such military property as the necessity of the services require and make purchases for that purpose. No military property shall be issued or loaned, except upon an emergency, to persons or organizations other than those belonging to the National Guard of Mississippi except to such portions of the unorganized militia as may be called out by the Governor;
(l) Keep the reports and returns of troops and all other writings and documents required to be preserved by the state military headquarters;
(m) Keep necessary records attesting to the service of individuals of Mississippi forces for the Spanish American War and all subsequent wars and insurrections. The Adjutant General is authorized to make a determination as to when old records have only historical value, and therefore, transfer them to the State Department of Archives and History for reference and preservation;
(n) Those records and relics not required for efficient operation of the military department may be turned over to the Department of Archives and History for preservation;
(o) The Adjutant General with the approval of the Governor shall provide for and be responsible for the organization, training, tactical employment, and discipline of the Mississippi National Guard, Mississippi State Guard, and the unorganized militia when called to active state duty.
Sources: Codes, 1942, § 8519-16; Laws, 1966, ch. 539, § 7; Laws, 2005, 2nd Ex Sess, ch. 6, § 3, eff from and after passage (approved June 14, 2005.)