1. The Adjutant General, with the approval of the Governor, may order members of the Nevada National Guard to active duty. Members, while on active duty, are entitled to receive the pay and allowances of their corresponding grades in the Armed Forces of the United States, but in no case may the pay and allowances be less than $50 per day.

2. Members of the Nevada National Guard serving on courts-martial, courts of inquiry, efficiency boards, medical boards or other special duty requiring absence from their stations or business under competent orders may receive the per diem allowance and travel expenses provided for state officers and employees generally.

3. In lieu of other provisions of this chapter, such amounts as are approved by the Governor may be paid to a medical examiner for his or her services and necessary disbursements and to a properly appointed judge advocate for legal services and necessary disbursements in any suit, action or proceeding.

4. Members of the Nevada National Guard may not receive from the State the pay or the pay and allowances provided by this section when they are eligible for similar pay and allowances from federal funds.

5. Members of the Nevada National Guard may with their consent perform without pay or without pay and allowances in parades or ceremonial events, or any of the types of military duty prescribed in this chapter pursuant to orders issued by competent military authority. Necessary traveling expenses, subsistence and per diem allowances may be furnished the members within the discretion of the Adjutant General and within the amount appropriated therefor.

6. All pay and allowances provided by this chapter, except per diem allowances, mileage and expenses while traveling under orders, are subject to be applied to the payment of penalties and fines imposed by military courts, and to the payment of any shortage of funds or for injury to state or federal property for which a member of the Nevada National Guard is responsible or accountable where the responsibility has been fixed by competent authority.

(Added to NRS by 1967, 1302; A 1975, 1107; 1981, 1199; 1985, 757; 2007, 603)