In this act, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. (1) "State military forces" means the National Guard of the state, as defined in Section 101(3) of Title 32, United States Code, and any other military force organized under the laws of the state.
2. (2) "Officer" means commissioned or warrant officer.
3. (3) "Commanding officer" includes only commissioned officers.
4. (4) "Superior commissioned officer" means a commissioned officer superior in rank or command.
5. (5) "Enlisted member" means a person in an enlisted grade.
6. (6) "Grade" means a step or degree, in a graduated scale of office or military rank, that is established and designated as a grade by law or regulation.
7. (7) "Rank" means the order of precedence among members of the state military forces.
8. (8) "Active state duty" means duty in the state military forces and includes travel to and from such duty.
9. (9) "Military court" means a court-martial, a court of inquiry, or a provost court.
10. (10) "Military judge" means an official of a general or special court-martial detailed in accordance with Section 2505 of Title 44 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
11. (11) "State judge advocate" means the commissioned officer responsible for supervising the administration of the military justice in the state military forces.
12. (12) "Staff judge advocate" means the commissioned officer responsible for supervising the administration of military justice within a command.
13. (13) "Accuser" means a person who signs and swears to charges, any person who directs that charges nominally be signed and sworn to by another, and any person who has an interest other than an official interest in the prosecution of the accused.
14. (14) "Military" refers to any or all of the armed forces.
15. (15) "Convening authority" includes, in addition to the person who convened the court, a commissioned officer commanding for the time being, or a successor in command.
16. (16) "May" is used in a permissive sense. The words "no person may . . ." mean that no person is required, authorized, or permitted to do the act prescribed.
17. (17) "Shall" is used in an imperative sense.
18. (18) "Code" means this act.

Added by Laws 1963, c. 148, § 101, emerg. eff. June 6, 1963; Amended by Laws 1971, HB 1280, c. 232, § 1.