                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

WHEN ORDERED OUT FOR SERVICE (§ 44-86)

The commander in chief may at any time, in order to execute the law, suppress
riots or insurrections, or repel invasion, or aid in any form of disaster
wherein the lives or property of citizens are imperiled or may be imperiled,
order out the National Guard and the inactive National Guard or any parts
thereof, or the whole or any part of the unorganized militia. When the militia
of this Commonwealth, or a part thereof, is called forth under the Constitution
and laws of the United States, the Governor shall order out for service the
National Guard, or such part thereof as may be necessary; and he may likewise
order out such a part of the unorganized militia as he may deem necessary.
During the absence of organizations of the National Guard in the service of the
United States, their state designations shall not be given to new organizations.

HISTORY: 1930, p. 965; Michie Code 1942, § 2673(72); 1958, c. 393.