32 U.S.C. § 331
Section 331 · Dismissal or dishonorable discharge
Amended 2 times on record
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.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
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,”.