29A.1 - DEFINITIONS. - Iowa Statutes

29A.1 DEFINITIONS. The following words, terms, and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the respective meanings herein set forth: 1. "Civil air patrol" means the civilian auxiliary of the United States air force established by the United States Congress in 36 U.S.C. § 40301 et seq., and 10 U.S.C. § 9441 et seq. 2. "Facility" means the land, and the buildings and other improvements on the land which are the responsibility and property of the Iowa national guard. 3. "Federal service" means duty authorized and performed under the provisions of 10 U.S.C. as part of the active military forces of the United States or the army national guard of the United States or the air national guard of the United States. 4. "Homeland defense" means the protection of state territory, population, and critical infrastructure and assets against attacks from within or without the state. 5. "Law and regulations" means and includes state and federal law and regulations. 6. "Militia" shall mean the forces provided for in the Constitution of Iowa. 7. "National guard" means the Iowa units, detachments and organizations of the army national guard of the United States, the air national guard of the United States, the army national guard, and the air national guard as those forces are defined in 10 U.S.C. § 101. 8. "Officer" shall mean and include commissioned officers and warrant officers. 9. "On duty" means training, including unit training assemblies, and other training, operational duty, and other service which may be required under state or federal law, regulations, or orders, and the necessary travel of an officer or enlisted person to the place of performance and return home after performance of that duty, but does not include federal service. A member of the national guard shall be considered to be on duty when called to testify about an incident which the member observed or was involved in while that member was on duty. 10. "Organization" means a command composed of two or more subordinate units and includes the state headquarters for both the army and the air national guard, one or more divisions, wings, brigades, groups, battalions, squadrons or flights as defined by an appropriate table of organization, a table of distribution or unit personnel document. 11. "State active duty" means duty authorized and performed under section 29A.8 and paid for with state funds. "State active duty" also includes serving as the adjutant general, a deputy adjutant general, or the state quartermaster. 12. "State military service" means training or operational duty or other service authorized and performed under the provisions of 32 U.S.C. or other federal law or regulation as part of the Iowa army national guard or Iowa air national guard and paid for with federal funds. 13. "Unit" means a military element of an organization whose structure is prescribed by competent authority such as a table of organization, table of distribution, or unit personnel document. For the purposes of this chapter, a unit shall include one or more companies, flights, troops, batteries or detachments and the state officer candidate school. 14. Except when otherwise expressly defined herein military words, terms and phrases shall have the meaning commonly ascribed to them in the military profession.          Section History: Early Form [C97, § 2168; S13, § 2215-f2; C24, 27, 31, § 433; C35, § 467-f2; C39, § 467.02; C46, 50, § 29.2; C54, 58, 62, § 29.1; C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 29A.1; 81 Acts, ch 14, § 18]          Section History: Recent Form 2000 Acts, ch 1020, §1, 6; 2001 Acts, 2nd Ex, ch 1, §1--6, 28; 2002 Acts, ch 1117, §2, 3, 23; 2004 Acts, ch 1086, §12; 2005 Acts, ch 119, §1 Referred to in § 29A.43, 29A.90, 69.20, 96.7(2a), 142D.3, 654.1A, 669.14