                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

HOW TROOPS PAID WHILE IN SERVICE; TRANSPORTATION TO BE FURNISHED; MOVEMENT OF
TROOPS AND SUPPLIES NOT TO BE DELAYED (§ 44-82)

All officers and enlisted personnel of the National Guard or Virginia Defense
Force, whenever called out in aid of the civil authorities, shall receive the
compensation herein provided, and such compensation, and the necessary expenses
incurred in furnishing supplies, subsistence, quartering, and transporting
troops, shall be paid no later than 10 work days after the receipt of required
payroll documentation by the Payroll Services Bureau of the Department of
Accounts by the State Treasurer. Such payments shall be made on warrants to be
drawn by the Comptroller, on the State Treasurer, upon certificates of the
officer in actual command of the troops, and upon payrolls prepared according to
such forms as the state regulations shall prescribe. Such payrolls and
certificates are to be transmitted to the Adjutant General through the regular
military channels, and he shall approve them before such warrants shall be
drawn. The Comptroller and the State Treasurer are hereby authorized and
directed to draw the warrants and make the payments herein provided for in
accordance with current or subsequently amended pay and allowances of United
States armed forces.
		The several transportation companies in this Commonwealth shall furnish
transportation for troops so called out, stores, munitions and equipments, upon
application of the officer in actual command, accompanied by a certificate from
him of the number of personnel to be carried and their destination, and a copy
of the order calling them out. For such transportation the transportation
company shall be entitled to receive compensation from the Commonwealth.
		Transportation of troops and military supplies shall be as speedy as possible
and have the right-of-way over all passenger and freight traffic on
transportation lines within the Commonwealth, and failure to furnish
transportation when called upon, or unnecessary delay in transporting such
troops and supplies, shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $1,000 or
more than $10,000.

HISTORY: 1930, p. 963; Michie Code 1942, § 2673(68); 1958, c. 393; 1973, c.
401; 2011, cc. 572, 586; 2015, c. 221.