33-7-201 - Enlistment period of service, transfer, discharge, and extensions of enlistment. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 33-7-201. Enlistment period of service, transfer, discharge, and extensions of enlistment.
 

(a)  The qualifications for enlistment and re-enlistment, the periods of enlistment, re-enlistment and voluntary extension of enlistment, the period of service, the form of oath to be taken, and the manner and form of transfer and discharge of enlisted personnel of the forces of the organized militia shall be those prescribed by applicable laws of the United States and by this chapter and by regulations issued thereunder. 

(b)  The Governor is authorized to extend the period of any enlistment, re-enlistment, voluntary extension of enlistment, and the period of service of enlisted personnel of the organized militia for a period not to exceed six (6) months after the termination of an emergency declared by him, the legislature or congress. 

(c)  Whenever the period of enlistment, re-enlistment, voluntary extension of enlistment and the period of service of enlisted personnel of the reserve components of the Armed Forces of the United States are extended, the Governor shall extend the period of any enlistment, re-enlistment, voluntary extension of enlistment and the period of service of enlisted personnel in the corresponding force of the organized militia for the same period. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 8519-71; Laws,  1966, ch. 539, § 47, eff from and after June 1, 1966.