N.Y. Military Law § 240-a: Historic military commands

§ 240-a. Historic military commands. 1. Historic military commands

are those independent military organizations located within the state as

were on the twenty-third day of April, eighteen hundred eighty-three and

are now in existence, and whose members associate themselves together at

regular meetings and elect their officers in accordance with their

respective rules and regulations or constitutions and by-laws.

2. The Old Guard of the City of New York, the Troy Citizens Corps, the

Utica Citizens Corps, the One Hundred Twenty-fourth New York State

Volunteers and the Veteran Corps of Artillery of the state of New York,

are designated as historic military commands.

3. The adjutant general may issue a certificate of election under the

seal of the chief of staff to officers of historic military commands

elected pursuant to the rules and regulations or constitutions and

by-laws of their respective commands. Such certificate of election shall

be in a format approved by the adjutant general and shall be provided by

the command at no cost to the state. Elected officers of historic

military commands may take their oath of office before any officer of

the organized militia of the state.

4. Historic military commands and independent military organizations

defined in section two hundred forty of this chapter are not units of

the militia of the state.