CODE OF VIRGINIA

ADJUTANT GENERAL TO HAVE CHARGE OF MILITARY PROPERTY (§ 44-19)

The Adjutant General shall have charge and care of all state military property
and all United States military property issued to the Commonwealth of Virginia,
and shall cause to be kept an accurate and careful account of all receipts and
issues of the same. He shall require to be kept careful memoranda of all public
military property on hand in the state arsenal or storehouses, and in the
possession of the several organizations of the Virginia National Guard or issued
to the Virginia Defense Force, and shall guard such property against injury and
loss to the extent of his ability. He shall require every accountable and
responsible officer of the National Guard to account for every deficiency in
public military property in his possession immediately after such deficiency is
discovered. The Adjutant General shall have the care and control of the state
military reservation near Virginia Beach, and of such other real estate as the
Commonwealth may acquire for military purposes, and it shall be the duty of the
Adjutant General to provide for the proper care of such property and buildings
thereon. For the maintenance, upkeep and improvement of the military reservation
or reservations, the Adjutant General may expend from the appropriation to the
Department of Military Affairs such amounts as may be necessary.

HISTORY: 1930, pp. 950, 952; Michie Code 1942, §§ 2673(11), 2673(13); 1944, p.
24; R. P. 1948,§ 44-19; 1958, c. 393; 1989, c. 414; 2011, cc. 572, 586.