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[CITE: 32USC329]

 
                        TITLE 32--NATIONAL GUARD
 
                          CHAPTER 3--PERSONNEL
 
Sec. 329. Summary courts-martial of National Guard not in 
        Federal service
        
    (a) In the National Guard not in Federal service, the commanding 
officer of a garrison, fort, post, camp, air base, auxiliary air base, 
or other place where troops are on duty, or of a regiment, wing, group, 
detached battalion, detached squadron, detached company, or other 
detachment, may convene a summary court-martial consisting of one 
commissioned officer. The proceedings shall be informal.
    (b) A summary court-martial may sentence to a fine of not more than 
$25 for a single offense, to forfeiture of pay and allowances, and to 
reduction of a noncommissioned officer to the ranks.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 608.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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329(a)................................  32:94 (words before 1st semi-colon   Ju
ne 3, 1916, ch. 134, Sec.  105,
                                         of 1st sentence, and 1st 8 words     3
9 Stat. 208.
                                         of last sentence).
329(b)................................  32:94 (less words before 1st
                                         semicolon of 1st sentence, and
                                         less 1st 8 words of last
                                         sentence).
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    In subsection (a), the words ``Federal service'' are substituted for 
the words ``service of the United States'' The words ``where troops are 
on duty'' and ``commissioned'' are inserted for clarity. The words ``air 
base, auxiliary air base'', ``wing, group'', and ``detached squadron'' 
are inserted to clarify the applicability of the revised section to Air 
Force organizations. The word ``convene'' is substituted for the word 
``appoint'' to conform to 32:92 and similar provisions of section 824 of 
title 10 (article 24 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice). The word 
``corps'', referring to those corps covered by 32:192 and 193, is 
omitted as covered by the words ``other detachment''. The words ``who 
shall have power to administer oaths and to try the enlisted men of such 
place or command for breaches of discipline and violations of laws 
governing such organizations'' are omitted as covered by section 326 of 
this title.
    In subsection (b), the words ``and the minutes thereof shall be the 
same as prescribed for summary courts of the Army of the United States'' 
are omitted as covered by section 326 of this title.
