39-1-59 - Compensation for injury or death. - Utah Statutes

39-1-59. Compensation for injury or death.
If any officer or enlisted person of the National Guard is wounded, injured, or otherwisedisabled, or is killed or dies of wounds or injuries received while serving on state active duty,under orders of competent authority and not as a result of his own misconduct, the person, thesurviving spouse, children, or any dependent relatives, shall receive from the state relief as theLegislature determines. However, in these cases the member, surviving spouse, children, or anydependent relatives, upon investigation by a board of inquiry appointed by the commander inchief, the findings and recommendations of which shall be filed with the state auditor for theaction of the Board of Examiners, shall receive temporary compensation from the state, out offunds appropriated for the maintenance of the National Guard, as determined by the Board ofExaminers until the next regular session of the Legislature. This compensation may not exceedthe rates of pay provided for officers and enlisted persons in this chapter.

Amended by Chapter 210, 1988 General Session