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CALIFORNIA STATUTES AND CODES
SECTIONS 500-520.1
MILITARY AND VETERANS CODE
SECTION 500-520.1
500. The students of any college, community college or high school in this state, having 100 or more such students, 14 years of age or over, may be organized into a cadet company or companies under such rules and regulations as the governing body of the schools or colleges and the Adjutant General of the State of California may prescribe. Said company or companies shall be of such strength as may be prescribed by the Adjutant General. 500.1. Except as hereinafter provided, each college, community college, high school and each senior high school in this state having 100 or more students of 14 years of age or over and in which there is not maintained an R.O.T.C. unit shall establish a cadet company or companies under such rules and regulations as the governing body of the schools and the Adjutant General may prescribe, and any college, community college, high school or senior high school in the state having less than 100 of such students may establish a cadet company or companies. Said company or companies shall be of such strength as shall be prescribed by the Adjutant General. A cadet company or companies is not required to be established in a high school, college or community college unless a number of qualified students sufficient to constitute a company or companies of the strength prescribed by the Adjutant General voluntarily enroll therein. 501. Cadet companies shall at all times be under the guidance and control of the principal, president, director or chief administrative officer of the college, community college or high school, whose duty it shall be to make regulations with the approval of the Adjutant General regarding the moral, educational, and physical welfare of the cadets. 502. Upon recommendation of the governing board having jurisdiction over the community college or school, the Adjutant General may appoint officers in the California Cadet Corps for duty in each community college, high school, junior high school, or elementary school under the jurisdiction of the governing board. Except when ordered to duty by the Governor, the officers shall be under the immediate control and jurisdiction of the governing board of the community college, high school, junior high school, or elementary school at which they are on duty. Each officer shall hold his or her appointment at the pleasure of the governing board, or until a successor has been appointed and qualified or his or her connection with the cadets is severed. 502.1. The Adjutant General shall determine by the adoption of rules and regulations the grade and rank to be held by officers appointed in the California Cadet Corps by reason of their military experience and professional knowledge. Said officers shall be commissioned in the manner that shall be determined by rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General. A person who has previously been a commissioned officer of, and discharged under honorable conditions from, the United States Army, the Army of the United States, the United States Navy, the United States Air Force, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Coast Guard, or any reserve component of such federal forces, the National Guard, the State Military Reserve, or the active militia may be appointed in the California Cadet Corps and commissioned in the same rank last held in such federal or state military forces. Each officer commissioned shall hold office as provided by rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General. Upon recommendation of the Adjutant General, the Governor may commission one executive officer of the California Cadet Corps as colonel, one assistant executive officer of the California Cadet Corps as lieutenant colonel, and the necessary number of regional supervisors of cadet instruction in the same grade and rank as said officers last held in said federal or state military forces, not to exceed lieutenant colonel, as may be determined by rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General. Pay and expenses shall be taken from the moneys appropriated for the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps. 502.2. The executive officer commissioned as a colonel in the National Guard, the assistant executive officer commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard, the regional supervisors of cadet instruction commissioned as provided in Section 502.1 of this code and the officers appointed in the California Cadet Corps commissioned according to rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General shall wear such uniform as may be prescribed by the Adjutant General, including cap and collar ornaments and other distinctive marks of identification of the California Cadet Corps as may not be inconsistent with rules and regulations of the United States Army. 502.5. The Adjutant General may order officers in the California Cadet Corps to duty at encampments, exercises, or other activities conducted by the corps. While on duty, the officers shall receive the same base pay, without longevity, as officers of similar grade in the United States Army together with their expenses. Pay and expenses for these purposes shall be paid from funds appropriated for the maintenance and support of the corps. 503. Cadet companies shall be organized and each shall have such commissioned cadet officers and noncommissioned cadet officers as shall be prescribed from time to time by the Adjutant General, and as shall conform generally to the number of commissioned and noncommissioned officers of companies of the California National Guard. Said commissioned cadet officers shall be commissioned in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General and upon recommendation of the commandant of cadets and with the approval of the president, director or chief administrative officer or principal. The noncommissioned cadet officers shall be appointed and warranted by the commandant of cadets with the approval of the president, director or chief administrative officer or principal. 504. The Adjutant General shall provide by the adoption of rules and regulations for the formation of cadet battalions and shall adopt tables of organization and provide for the appointment of cadet battalion officers and staffs. All cadet battalion officers and noncommissioned officers shall be appointed, commissioned or warranted in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General and upon the recommendation of the commandant of cadets with the approval of the president, director or other chief administrative officer or principal of the college, community college or high school. 505. The Adjutant General may in his discretion organize companies of the California Cadet Corps into battalions and regiments and each such battalion and regiment so organized shall have a staff to consist of such cadet commissioned officers and cadet noncommissioned officers as may be prescribed by the Adjutant General. The Adjutant General may adopt tables of organizations for the battalions or regiments created hereunder and all cadet officers or cadet noncommissioned officers appointed, commissioned or warranted as staff or line cadet officers or cadet noncommissioned officers shall be selected upon the recommendation of the cadet commandant with the approval of the president, director or other chief administrative officer or principal of the college, community college or high school. 506. All cadet officers and noncommissioned officers shall be promoted according to rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General upon the recommendation of the commandant of cadets and with the approval of the president, chief administrative officer, director or principal of the college, community college or high school. 507. Any cadet commissioned officer or cadet noncommissioned officer may have his commission or warrant canceled and be reduced to the ranks, or dismissed from the California Cadet Corps and any cadet may be dismissed from the corps, upon the recommendation of the president, director or chief administrative officer of the college or community college or the principal of the high school, for deficiency in his studies or for misbehavior either in college, community college or high school or in the California Cadet Corps or for other good cause in the judgment of the president, director or chief administrative officer of the college or community college or the principal of the high school. 508. The California Cadet Corps shall train in accordance with the appropriate manuals prescribed by the United States Army and as may be prescribed by rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General. No uniformed corps of cadets shall be organized in any college, community college, or high school except pursuant to and as authorized by this chapter provided that R.O.T.C. and other federally approved military units shall not be subject to or limited by this code. 509. The Adjutant General shall provide and may prepare suitable training regulations, books and courses of instruction, and the necessary forms for reports or other necessary purposes to be used by the California Cadet Corps. The Adjutant General may take such action as is necessary to promote the general welfare, strength and morale of the California Cadet Corps and to provide for the recreation of cadets. 510. Members of the California Cadet Corps shall wear such uniforms as the Adjutant General prescribes. The Adjutant General may issue to the California Cadet Corps necessary cap and collar ornaments and chevrons, training aids, insignia of rank and of the California Cadet Corps, awards and decoration, flags, colors, guidons, standards, slings and carrying devices, canteens and covers, belts, first aid packets, mess kits, shelter halves, haversacks, and such other military property or equipment in the control of the Adjutant General as may not be required for the National Guard or other state military forces or other military purposes. A regulation uniform for cadets shall be kept in the Adjutant General's office to be used as sample from which the uniforms for the California Cadet Corps shall be made. Such issues may be made by the Adjutant General without charge to the members of the California Cadet Corps or to the school or college or community college. The Adjutant General, after receiving written acknowledgment from the high school principal or president, director or chief administrative officer of the college or community college of the receipt of such property, shall account the same as a transfer of equipment. 511. A sufficient number of rifles suitable for drill purposes may be purchased by the board of high school trustees, board of education, board of directors or trustees of a college or community college, county superintendent of schools, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, or the Adjutant General out of any funds available and not otherwise appropriated. 511.5. The Adjutant General, under such rules and regulations as he may adopt, may purchase and furnish the members of the California Cadet Corps uniforms including caps, helmets, liners, shirts, trousers, belts, jackets, skirts, blouses, ties and leggings. The Adjutant General, with the approval of the Department of Finance, may annually determine the uniform value per cadet. 512. Target practice shall constitute a part of the instruction to be given to cadets. Members of the California Cadet Corps may engage in rifle matches and competitions conducted or held in this state or at any place in the United States. The Adjutant General may purchase and supply to each of the colleges, communmity colleges and high schools a sufficient number of Springfield or other efficient rifles for field target work and gallery practice and the ammmunition and equipment therefor, as in his judgment is necessary for efficient rifle practice. A sufficient number of rifles suitable for field target work or gallery target firing and the ammunition and equipment therefor may be purchased by a board of high school trustees, board of education, board of directors or trustees of a college or community college, county superintendent of schools, or the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, out of any funds available therefor, and the governing body or governing officials of any high school, community college or college may purchase the necessary parts for and may repair any rifles acquired or furnished for the use of members of the California Cadet Corps. All target practice shall be under the supervision of the president, chief administrative officer, director or principal of the college, community college, or high school or such officer or officers as he or they may appoint. Competent members of the National Guard, State Military Reserve or Naval Militia may be detailed by the Adjutant General, with their consent, and upon request of the president, chief administrative officer, director or principal of the college, community college or high school as instructors of target practice in the California Cadet Corps. Such instructors while on duty at said college, community college or high school during target practice shall be under the immediate control and jurisdiction of the governing body of said college, community college or high school. The expenditures therefor may be paid out of the moneys appropriated for the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps. 513. The Adjutant General may detail from the organizations of the National Guard, State Military Reserve, or Naval Militia, competent members thereof who shall perform duties on behalf of the California Cadet Corps as may be assigned to them or who shall act as training and rifle practice instructors for the California Cadet Corps. The Adjutant General may provide for compensating the persons detailed for duty and service with the California Cadet Corps and the persons detailed to instruct the cadets in drill and target practice. The expenditures therefor may be paid out of the moneys appropriated for the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps. The Adjutant General may conduct schools and conferences for the officers of the California Cadet Corps and pay the expenditures thereof out of moneys appropriated for the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps. The Adjutant General may adopt rules and regulations providing for the promotion of officers of the California Cadet Corps. 514. Whenever practicable members of the California Cadet Corps shall, under the supervision of the commandant of cadets, be permitted to shoot at target practice upon National Guard rifle ranges when not needed by the National Guard. 515. Units of the California Cadet Corps shall be inspected at least once each year by the executive officer, the assistant executive officer, the regional supervisors of cadet instruction, or any of them, or by officers of the National Guard, State Military Reserve or Naval Militia detailed by the Adjutant General for that purpose. Such inspectors shall report to the Adjutant General the result of inspections relating to the training, target practice, attendance, discipline, military knowledge and instruction, leadership and condition of property of the California Cadet Corps. Such report shall contain an inventory of the state property on hand in the cadet units at the time of inspections. Such reports shall be made and forwarded in duplicate, one copy to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and one copy to the Adjutant General's office, and shall bear the endorsement of the president, director or other chief administrative officer of the college or community college or of the principal of the high school, containing remarks the said officials may deem pertinent. 516. The president, director or chief administrative officer of a college or community college and the principal of the high school shall be responsible for all public property supplied to units of the California Cadet Corps under their control or supervision and shall supervise the proper care thereof. 516.1. An encampment or encampments may be held by the California Cadet Corps to be of such duration and attended by such proportion of the strength of the corps as may be prescribed by the Adjutant General. The expenses of said encampments may be paid out of moneys appropriated for the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps. 517. Each board of high school trustees, president, director and chief administrative officer of a college or community college, board of trustees of a college or community college, board of education, principal of a high school, county superintendent of schools and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall facilitate the purposes of the California Cadet Corps and its instruction and the provisions of this chapter by cooperating with the Adjutant General. 518. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all community colleges in this state, and the principals and governing boards of community colleges shall have the same authority as similar officials of high schools. 519. Where a community college is located in close proximity to any high school having a high school cadet company or companies, the governing boards of the community college and high schools may by agreement provide for the joint organization of cadet companies. 520. In all cases in which any executive officer, assistant executive officer, regional or other supervisor of cadet instruction, and officers appointed or detailed, pursuant to Sections 502, 502.1, 512, 513, 515, or 516.1, when in the performance of duty ordered by the Adjutant General, is wounded, injured, disabled or killed in the performance of ordered duty and in line of duty, such executive officer, assistant executive officer, regional, or other supervisor of cadet instruction, or officers appointed or detailed, pursuant to Sections 502, 502.1, 512, 513, 515, or 516.1, shall be entitled to receive compensation from the State in accordance with the provisions of Division 4 of the Labor Code. In all such cases, such officers and those so appointed or detailed shall be held and deemed to be employees of the State. The compensation to be awarded to any such officer and those so appointed or detailed shall be ascertained, determined and fixed upon the basis of his average income from all sources during the year immediately preceding the date of such injury or death, or the commencement of such disability, but such compensation shall in no case exceed the maximum prescribed in Divison 4 of the Labor Code. In the determination of benefits to be awarded any such officer and those so appointed or detailed, under the provisions of this section, it shall be conclusively presumed that the average yearly earning of such injured or deceased officer is not less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500). Any injury, death or disability shall be deemed to have been suffered in line of duty unless the same resulted from misconduct or disobedience of lawful orders by the injured or deceased officer. 520.1. The principal and governing board of any private educational institution or military academy in which there is not maintained an R.O.T.C. unit of high school or community college or college grade otherwise meeting the qualifications prescribed by this chapter and such rules and regulations not inconsistent therewith that may be adopted by the Adjutant General may apply to the Adjutant General for permission to establish a cadet company or cadet companies, battalions or regiments of the California Cadet Corps pursuant to this chapter. If the Adjutant General approves the petition, the principal and governing board of the private school shall have the same authority as similar officials of public high schools, community colleges or colleges to create units of and to become a member of the California Cadet Corps, and the cadet company or companies or other cadet units shall in all respects be governed by the provisions of this chapter to the same extent as though it were a public high school, community college or college.
SECTION 500-520.1
500. The students of any college, community college or high school in this state, having 100 or more such students, 14 years of age or over, may be organized into a cadet company or companies under such rules and regulations as the governing body of the schools or colleges and the Adjutant General of the State of California may prescribe. Said company or companies shall be of such strength as may be prescribed by the Adjutant General. 500.1. Except as hereinafter provided, each college, community college, high school and each senior high school in this state having 100 or more students of 14 years of age or over and in which there is not maintained an R.O.T.C. unit shall establish a cadet company or companies under such rules and regulations as the governing body of the schools and the Adjutant General may prescribe, and any college, community college, high school or senior high school in the state having less than 100 of such students may establish a cadet company or companies. Said company or companies shall be of such strength as shall be prescribed by the Adjutant General. A cadet company or companies is not required to be established in a high school, college or community college unless a number of qualified students sufficient to constitute a company or companies of the strength prescribed by the Adjutant General voluntarily enroll therein. 501. Cadet companies shall at all times be under the guidance and control of the principal, president, director or chief administrative officer of the college, community college or high school, whose duty it shall be to make regulations with the approval of the Adjutant General regarding the moral, educational, and physical welfare of the cadets. 502. Upon recommendation of the governing board having jurisdiction over the community college or school, the Adjutant General may appoint officers in the California Cadet Corps for duty in each community college, high school, junior high school, or elementary school under the jurisdiction of the governing board. Except when ordered to duty by the Governor, the officers shall be under the immediate control and jurisdiction of the governing board of the community college, high school, junior high school, or elementary school at which they are on duty. Each officer shall hold his or her appointment at the pleasure of the governing board, or until a successor has been appointed and qualified or his or her connection with the cadets is severed. 502.1. The Adjutant General shall determine by the adoption of rules and regulations the grade and rank to be held by officers appointed in the California Cadet Corps by reason of their military experience and professional knowledge. Said officers shall be commissioned in the manner that shall be determined by rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General. A person who has previously been a commissioned officer of, and discharged under honorable conditions from, the United States Army, the Army of the United States, the United States Navy, the United States Air Force, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Coast Guard, or any reserve component of such federal forces, the National Guard, the State Military Reserve, or the active militia may be appointed in the California Cadet Corps and commissioned in the same rank last held in such federal or state military forces. Each officer commissioned shall hold office as provided by rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General. Upon recommendation of the Adjutant General, the Governor may commission one executive officer of the California Cadet Corps as colonel, one assistant executive officer of the California Cadet Corps as lieutenant colonel, and the necessary number of regional supervisors of cadet instruction in the same grade and rank as said officers last held in said federal or state military forces, not to exceed lieutenant colonel, as may be determined by rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General. Pay and expenses shall be taken from the moneys appropriated for the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps. 502.2. The executive officer commissioned as a colonel in the National Guard, the assistant executive officer commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard, the regional supervisors of cadet instruction commissioned as provided in Section 502.1 of this code and the officers appointed in the California Cadet Corps commissioned according to rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General shall wear such uniform as may be prescribed by the Adjutant General, including cap and collar ornaments and other distinctive marks of identification of the California Cadet Corps as may not be inconsistent with rules and regulations of the United States Army. 502.5. The Adjutant General may order officers in the California Cadet Corps to duty at encampments, exercises, or other activities conducted by the corps. While on duty, the officers shall receive the same base pay, without longevity, as officers of similar grade in the United States Army together with their expenses. Pay and expenses for these purposes shall be paid from funds appropriated for the maintenance and support of the corps. 503. Cadet companies shall be organized and each shall have such commissioned cadet officers and noncommissioned cadet officers as shall be prescribed from time to time by the Adjutant General, and as shall conform generally to the number of commissioned and noncommissioned officers of companies of the California National Guard. Said commissioned cadet officers shall be commissioned in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General and upon recommendation of the commandant of cadets and with the approval of the president, director or chief administrative officer or principal. The noncommissioned cadet officers shall be appointed and warranted by the commandant of cadets with the approval of the president, director or chief administrative officer or principal. 504. The Adjutant General shall provide by the adoption of rules and regulations for the formation of cadet battalions and shall adopt tables of organization and provide for the appointment of cadet battalion officers and staffs. All cadet battalion officers and noncommissioned officers shall be appointed, commissioned or warranted in accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General and upon the recommendation of the commandant of cadets with the approval of the president, director or other chief administrative officer or principal of the college, community college or high school. 505. The Adjutant General may in his discretion organize companies of the California Cadet Corps into battalions and regiments and each such battalion and regiment so organized shall have a staff to consist of such cadet commissioned officers and cadet noncommissioned officers as may be prescribed by the Adjutant General. The Adjutant General may adopt tables of organizations for the battalions or regiments created hereunder and all cadet officers or cadet noncommissioned officers appointed, commissioned or warranted as staff or line cadet officers or cadet noncommissioned officers shall be selected upon the recommendation of the cadet commandant with the approval of the president, director or other chief administrative officer or principal of the college, community college or high school. 506. All cadet officers and noncommissioned officers shall be promoted according to rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General upon the recommendation of the commandant of cadets and with the approval of the president, chief administrative officer, director or principal of the college, community college or high school. 507. Any cadet commissioned officer or cadet noncommissioned officer may have his commission or warrant canceled and be reduced to the ranks, or dismissed from the California Cadet Corps and any cadet may be dismissed from the corps, upon the recommendation of the president, director or chief administrative officer of the college or community college or the principal of the high school, for deficiency in his studies or for misbehavior either in college, community college or high school or in the California Cadet Corps or for other good cause in the judgment of the president, director or chief administrative officer of the college or community college or the principal of the high school. 508. The California Cadet Corps shall train in accordance with the appropriate manuals prescribed by the United States Army and as may be prescribed by rules and regulations adopted by the Adjutant General. No uniformed corps of cadets shall be organized in any college, community college, or high school except pursuant to and as authorized by this chapter provided that R.O.T.C. and other federally approved military units shall not be subject to or limited by this code. 509. The Adjutant General shall provide and may prepare suitable training regulations, books and courses of instruction, and the necessary forms for reports or other necessary purposes to be used by the California Cadet Corps. The Adjutant General may take such action as is necessary to promote the general welfare, strength and morale of the California Cadet Corps and to provide for the recreation of cadets. 510. Members of the California Cadet Corps shall wear such uniforms as the Adjutant General prescribes. The Adjutant General may issue to the California Cadet Corps necessary cap and collar ornaments and chevrons, training aids, insignia of rank and of the California Cadet Corps, awards and decoration, flags, colors, guidons, standards, slings and carrying devices, canteens and covers, belts, first aid packets, mess kits, shelter halves, haversacks, and such other military property or equipment in the control of the Adjutant General as may not be required for the National Guard or other state military forces or other military purposes. A regulation uniform for cadets shall be kept in the Adjutant General's office to be used as sample from which the uniforms for the California Cadet Corps shall be made. Such issues may be made by the Adjutant General without charge to the members of the California Cadet Corps or to the school or college or community college. The Adjutant General, after receiving written acknowledgment from the high school principal or president, director or chief administrative officer of the college or community college of the receipt of such property, shall account the same as a transfer of equipment. 511. A sufficient number of rifles suitable for drill purposes may be purchased by the board of high school trustees, board of education, board of directors or trustees of a college or community college, county superintendent of schools, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, or the Adjutant General out of any funds available and not otherwise appropriated. 511.5. The Adjutant General, under such rules and regulations as he may adopt, may purchase and furnish the members of the California Cadet Corps uniforms including caps, helmets, liners, shirts, trousers, belts, jackets, skirts, blouses, ties and leggings. The Adjutant General, with the approval of the Department of Finance, may annually determine the uniform value per cadet. 512. Target practice shall constitute a part of the instruction to be given to cadets. Members of the California Cadet Corps may engage in rifle matches and competitions conducted or held in this state or at any place in the United States. The Adjutant General may purchase and supply to each of the colleges, communmity colleges and high schools a sufficient number of Springfield or other efficient rifles for field target work and gallery practice and the ammmunition and equipment therefor, as in his judgment is necessary for efficient rifle practice. A sufficient number of rifles suitable for field target work or gallery target firing and the ammunition and equipment therefor may be purchased by a board of high school trustees, board of education, board of directors or trustees of a college or community college, county superintendent of schools, or the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, out of any funds available therefor, and the governing body or governing officials of any high school, community college or college may purchase the necessary parts for and may repair any rifles acquired or furnished for the use of members of the California Cadet Corps. All target practice shall be under the supervision of the president, chief administrative officer, director or principal of the college, community college, or high school or such officer or officers as he or they may appoint. Competent members of the National Guard, State Military Reserve or Naval Militia may be detailed by the Adjutant General, with their consent, and upon request of the president, chief administrative officer, director or principal of the college, community college or high school as instructors of target practice in the California Cadet Corps. Such instructors while on duty at said college, community college or high school during target practice shall be under the immediate control and jurisdiction of the governing body of said college, community college or high school. The expenditures therefor may be paid out of the moneys appropriated for the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps. 513. The Adjutant General may detail from the organizations of the National Guard, State Military Reserve, or Naval Militia, competent members thereof who shall perform duties on behalf of the California Cadet Corps as may be assigned to them or who shall act as training and rifle practice instructors for the California Cadet Corps. The Adjutant General may provide for compensating the persons detailed for duty and service with the California Cadet Corps and the persons detailed to instruct the cadets in drill and target practice. The expenditures therefor may be paid out of the moneys appropriated for the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps. The Adjutant General may conduct schools and conferences for the officers of the California Cadet Corps and pay the expenditures thereof out of moneys appropriated for the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps. The Adjutant General may adopt rules and regulations providing for the promotion of officers of the California Cadet Corps. 514. Whenever practicable members of the California Cadet Corps shall, under the supervision of the commandant of cadets, be permitted to shoot at target practice upon National Guard rifle ranges when not needed by the National Guard. 515. Units of the California Cadet Corps shall be inspected at least once each year by the executive officer, the assistant executive officer, the regional supervisors of cadet instruction, or any of them, or by officers of the National Guard, State Military Reserve or Naval Militia detailed by the Adjutant General for that purpose. Such inspectors shall report to the Adjutant General the result of inspections relating to the training, target practice, attendance, discipline, military knowledge and instruction, leadership and condition of property of the California Cadet Corps. Such report shall contain an inventory of the state property on hand in the cadet units at the time of inspections. Such reports shall be made and forwarded in duplicate, one copy to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and one copy to the Adjutant General's office, and shall bear the endorsement of the president, director or other chief administrative officer of the college or community college or of the principal of the high school, containing remarks the said officials may deem pertinent. 516. The president, director or chief administrative officer of a college or community college and the principal of the high school shall be responsible for all public property supplied to units of the California Cadet Corps under their control or supervision and shall supervise the proper care thereof. 516.1. An encampment or encampments may be held by the California Cadet Corps to be of such duration and attended by such proportion of the strength of the corps as may be prescribed by the Adjutant General. The expenses of said encampments may be paid out of moneys appropriated for the maintenance of the California Cadet Corps. 517. Each board of high school trustees, president, director and chief administrative officer of a college or community college, board of trustees of a college or community college, board of education, principal of a high school, county superintendent of schools and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall facilitate the purposes of the California Cadet Corps and its instruction and the provisions of this chapter by cooperating with the Adjutant General. 518. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all community colleges in this state, and the principals and governing boards of community colleges shall have the same authority as similar officials of high schools. 519. Where a community college is located in close proximity to any high school having a high school cadet company or companies, the governing boards of the community college and high schools may by agreement provide for the joint organization of cadet companies. 520. In all cases in which any executive officer, assistant executive officer, regional or other supervisor of cadet instruction, and officers appointed or detailed, pursuant to Sections 502, 502.1, 512, 513, 515, or 516.1, when in the performance of duty ordered by the Adjutant General, is wounded, injured, disabled or killed in the performance of ordered duty and in line of duty, such executive officer, assistant executive officer, regional, or other supervisor of cadet instruction, or officers appointed or detailed, pursuant to Sections 502, 502.1, 512, 513, 515, or 516.1, shall be entitled to receive compensation from the State in accordance with the provisions of Division 4 of the Labor Code. In all such cases, such officers and those so appointed or detailed shall be held and deemed to be employees of the State. The compensation to be awarded to any such officer and those so appointed or detailed shall be ascertained, determined and fixed upon the basis of his average income from all sources during the year immediately preceding the date of such injury or death, or the commencement of such disability, but such compensation shall in no case exceed the maximum prescribed in Divison 4 of the Labor Code. In the determination of benefits to be awarded any such officer and those so appointed or detailed, under the provisions of this section, it shall be conclusively presumed that the average yearly earning of such injured or deceased officer is not less than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500). Any injury, death or disability shall be deemed to have been suffered in line of duty unless the same resulted from misconduct or disobedience of lawful orders by the injured or deceased officer. 520.1. The principal and governing board of any private educational institution or military academy in which there is not maintained an R.O.T.C. unit of high school or community college or college grade otherwise meeting the qualifications prescribed by this chapter and such rules and regulations not inconsistent therewith that may be adopted by the Adjutant General may apply to the Adjutant General for permission to establish a cadet company or cadet companies, battalions or regiments of the California Cadet Corps pursuant to this chapter. If the Adjutant General approves the petition, the principal and governing board of the private school shall have the same authority as similar officials of public high schools, community colleges or colleges to create units of and to become a member of the California Cadet Corps, and the cadet company or companies or other cadet units shall in all respects be governed by the provisions of this chapter to the same extent as though it were a public high school, community college or college.
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