10-2-211. Reemployment of veterans upon completion of service. (1) Any person inducted into the armed forces of the United States as a result of the operation of any selective training and service act or national guard and reserve officers mobilization act since 1948 who has satisfactorily completed his period of training or service as attested by a certificate to that effect shall be reemployed in the position he left in order to perform such training or service if:
     (a) he is still qualified to perform the duties of the position;
     (b) the position he formerly held was not a temporary one; and
     (c) he makes application for reemployment within 40 days after he is retired from training or service.
     (2) Should any person qualified for reemployment be a schoolteacher or instructor, the board of trustees or other employing agency of the school involved is not obligated to rehire the person until the beginning of the semester or quarter following the one in which the application for reemployment was made.

     History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 150, L. 1941; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 209, L. 1951; R.C.M. 1947, 77-601; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 142, L. 1979.