37.240 Active service -- How and when ordered into -- Direction -- Powers. - Kentucky Statutes

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37.240 Active service -- How and when ordered into -- Direction -- Powers. The Governor is hereby authorized to call and to assign any part of the Kentucky active
militia to active service for the purpose of resisting invasion, suppressing rebellions,
insurrections, riots, or threats thereof; to suppress any active, unlawful, or threatened
violence to persons or property in this state; to authorize the arrest of all persons engaged
in aiding or abetting therein; to investigate any acts of treason, sabotage, or attempted
sabotage and to cause the arrest of such persons engaged therein for aiding and abetting;
to protect life and property in the event of any emergency or disaster. The Governor may
by his order prescribe the duty to be performed by the troops thus called into active field
service. The Governor may direct the commanding officer of such military forces thus
ordered into service to report to any of the following named civil officers of the judicial
circuit, county, city, or town: Circuit Judge, sheriff, county judge/executive, or mayor;
and such civil officers may direct the specific object to be accomplished by such military
force, but the tactical direction and disposition of the troops and the particular means to
be employed to accomplish the object shall be left solely to the officers of the Kentucky
active militia. Troops shall not be relieved from active field service except by order of the
Governor. History: Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 62, sec. 48. -- Created 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 4, sec. 9.