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[CITE: 32USC331]

 
                        TITLE 32--NATIONAL GUARD
 
                          CHAPTER 3--PERSONNEL
 
Sec. 331. Dismissal or dishonorable discharge

    In the National Guard not in Federal service, no sentence of 
dismissal or dishonorable discharge may be executed until it is approved 
by the Governor of the State or territory or Puerto Rico, whichever is 
concerned, or, in the case of the National Guard of the District of 
Columbia, by its commanding general.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 609; Pub. L. 100-456, div. A, title 
XII, Sec. 1234(b)(3), Sept. 29, 1988, 102 Stat. 2059.)

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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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331...................................  32:96.                               Ju
ne 3, 1916, ch. 134, Sec.  107,
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9 Stat. 209.
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    The words ``Federal service'' are substituted for the words 
``service of the United States''. The words ``from the service'' and 
``imposed by a * * * court-martial'' are omitted as surplusage.


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-456 substituted ``the Governor of the State or 
territory or Puerto Rico,'' for ``the governor of the State or 
Territory, Puerto Rico, or the Canal Zone,''.
