§ 110-b-35

110-B:35 Responsibility for Public Property. – I. Public property of the state and of the United States shall be issued, safeguarded, maintained, accounted for, inventoried, inspected, surveyed and disposed of as provided in applicable laws of the United States, regulations issued thereunder and regulations issued pursuant to this chapter. II. When public property is lost, damaged or destroyed through the negligence or fault of a member of the national guard, the amount determined as the value of such property or the cost of repairing the same may be collected from any pay or allowance due or to become due the member from the state. III. An action may be maintained by the state in any court having jurisdiction thereof by the attorney general upon the request of the adjutant general to recover from a member or former member of the national guard found responsible for public property lost, damaged or destroyed through his negligence or fault the amount determined as the value of such property or the cost of repairing the same. Source. 1981, 434:1, eff. Aug. 22, 1981.