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PUBLIC LAW 88-647-OCT. 13, 1964

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Public Law 88-647 AN ACT

October 13, 1964

To amend title 10, United States Code, to vitalize the Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and for other purposes.

[H. R. 9124]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Reserve Officers' United States of America in Congress assembled. That this Act may Training Corps be cited as the "Reserve Officers' Training Corps Vitalization Act of virauzation'Act of 1964. 1964". TITLE I—JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS PROGRAM SEC. 101. Title 10, United States Code, is amended as follows: (1) Subtitle A is amended by adding the following new chapter after chapter 101:

"CHAPTER 102.—JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS "Sec.

"2031. Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

"§ 2031. Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps " (a) The Secretary of each military department shall establish and maintain a Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, organized into units, at public and private secondary educational institutions which apply for a unit and meet the standards and criteria prescribed pursuant to this section. Not more than 200 units may be established by all of the military departments each year beginning with the calendar year 1966, and the total number of units which may be established and maintained by all of the military departments under authority of this section, including those units already established on the date of enactment of this section, may not exceed 1,200. The President shall promulgate regulations prescribing the standards and criteria to be followed by the military departments in selecting the institutions at which units are to be established and maintained and shall provide for the fair and equitable distribution of such units throughout the Nation. "(b) No unit may be established or maintained at an institution unless— "(1) the unit contains at least 100 physically fit male students who are at least 14 years of age and are citizens of the United States; "(2) the institution has adequate facilities for classroom instruction, storage of arms and other equipment which may be furnished in support of the unit, and adequate drill areas at or in the immediate vicinity of the institution, as determined by the Secretary of the military department concerned; "(3) the institution provides a course of military instruction of not less than three academic years' duration, as prescribed by the Secretary of the military department concerned; and "(4) the institution agrees to limit membership in the unit to students who maintain acceptable standards of academic achievement and conduct, as prescribed by the Secretary of the military department concerned. "(c) The Secretary of the military department concerned shall, to support the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program— "(1) detail noncommissioned and commissioned officers of an armed force under his jurisdiction to institutions having units of the Corps as administrators and instructors; 31-667 0-65—70

70A Stat. 119. 10 USC 2001.

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