Section 67.03. Residents

(a)  For  the  purposes  of this article any person who resides in the
  state continuously for one year, and any person under the age of sixteen
  or any mentally retarded person whose parents or  persons  having  legal
  custody  of  him  have  resided  in the state continuously for one year,
  shall be considered a state resident. Residence  so  acquired  continues
  until the resident has remained away from the state for one year.
    (b)  No  person  shall  lose  state residence through absence from the
  state while serving in or attached to the armed  forces  of  the  United
  States  or the United States Merchant Marine and no member of the family
  of any such person shall lose state residence through absence  from  the
  state  while  living  with  or  near  such  person  during the period of
  service.
    (c) The continuous residence required to become a  resident  does  not
  include  any  period  during  which  a person was residing on a military
  reservation, but periods of residence immediately before and  after  the
  period  of  residence  on  a military reservation, if equaling one year,
  shall satisfy the required period of continuous residence.