CHAPTER 251

251.01 Authority and name.

(1) Whenever any part of the National Guard of this state is in active federal service, the Governor is hereby authorized to organize and maintain, within this state during such period, under such regulations as the Secretary of Defense of the United States may prescribe for discipline in training, such military forces as the Governor may deem necessary to assist the civil authorities in maintaining law and order.

Such forces shall be composed of officers commissioned or assigned, and such able-bodied citizens of the state as shall volunteer for service therein, supplemented, if necessary, by personnel of the Florida National Guard enrolled by draft or otherwise, as provided by law. Such forces shall be additional to and distinct from the National Guard and shall be known as the Florida State Defense Force. Such forces shall be uniformed.

(2) The Governor is authorized to maintain a Florida State Defense Force reserve cadre of officers and noncommissioned officers, said officers to be a trained nucleus for such time as the Florida State Defense Force may be activated. Said officers shall be volunteers and shall serve with no pay or allowances except when called to active duty.

History. — s. 1, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 1, ch. 65-186; s. 84, ch. 73-333; s. 8, ch. 92-86.

251.02 Organization; rules and regulations.

History. — s. 2, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 9, ch. 92-86; s. 122, ch. 95-148.

251.03 Pay and allowances.

History. — s. 3, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 10, ch. 92-86.

251.04 Requisitions; armories; other buildings.

History. — s. 4, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 85, ch. 73-333; s. 11, ch. 92-86.

251.05 Calling out of defense force.

History. — s. 5, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 12, ch. 92-86; s. 123, ch. 95-148.

251.06 Use outside this state.

History. — s. 6, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 13, ch. 92-86; s. 13, ch. 95-143; s. 124, ch. 95-148.

251.07 Permission to forces of other states in fresh pursuit.

History. — s. 7, ch. 20214, 1941.

251.08 Federal service.

History. — s. 8, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 14, ch. 92-86; s. 125, ch. 95-148.

251.09 Civil groups.

History. — s. 9, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 15, ch. 92-86.

251.10 Disqualifications.

History. — s. 10, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 16, ch. 92-86.

251.11 Commissioned officers.

History. — s. 11, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 17, ch. 92-86.

251.12 Enlisted personnel.

History. — s. 12, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 18, ch. 92-86.

251.13 Uniform Code of Military Justice; freedom from arrest; jury duty.

(1) Whenever such Florida State Defense Force, or any part thereof, shall be ordered out for active service, the Uniform Code of Military Justice of the United States, applicable to members of the National Guard of this state in relation to courts-martial, their jurisdiction and the limits of punishment, and the rules and regulations prescribed thereunder, shall be in full force and effect with respect to the Florida State Defense Force.

(2) No officer or enlisted person of such Florida State Defense Force shall be arrested on any warrant, except for treason or felony, while going to, remaining at, or returning from, a place where such person is ordered to attend for military duty. Every officer and enlisted person of such Florida State Defense Force shall, during such person’s service therein, be exempt from service upon any posse comitatus, and from jury duty.

History. — s. 13, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 78, ch. 77-104; s. 19, ch. 92-86.

251.14 Discharge of Florida State Defense Force.

History. — s. 14, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 2, ch. 65-186; s. 20, ch. 92-86.

251.15 Expenses.

History. — s. 15, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 21, ch. 92-86.

251.16

Short title.

History. — s. 18, ch. 20214, 1941; s. 22, ch. 92-86.

251.17 Awards to officers and enlisted personnel.

History. — s. 1, ch. 21877, 1943; s. 23, ch. 92-86; s. 2, ch. 93-269; s. 126, ch. 95-148.