Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
From: [s t ratos] at [netcom.com] (Steve Fischer)
Subject: The Militia Act - text
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 19:13:18 GMT
-CITE-
10 USC Sec. 311
-EXPCITE-
TITLE 10
Subtitle A
PART I
CHAPTER 13
-HEAD-
Sec. 311. Militia: composition and classes
-STATUTE-
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied
males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section
313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a
declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States
and of female citizens of the United States who are commissioned
officers of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are -
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard
and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of
the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the
Naval Militia.
-SOURCE-
(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 14; Sept. 2, 1958, Pub. L.
85-861, Sec. 1(7), 72 Stat. 1439.)
-MISC1-
Historical and Revision Notes
1956 Act
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Revised section Source (U.S. Code) Source (Statutes at
Large)
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311(a) 32:1 (less last 19 June 3, 1916, ch.
words). 134, Sec. 57, 39
Stat. 197; June 28,
1947, ch. 162, Sec.
7 (as applicable to
Sec. 57 of the Act
of June 3, 1916,
ch. 134), 61 Stat.
192.
311(b) 32:1 (last 19 words).
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In subsection (a), the words 'who have made a declaration of
intention' are substituted for the words 'who have or shall have
declared their intention'. The words 'at least 17 years of age and
* * * under 45 years of age' are substituted for the words 'who
shall be more than seventeen years of age and * * * not more than
forty-five years of age'. The words 'except as provided in section
313 of title 32' are substituted for the words 'except as
hereinafter provided', to make explicit the exception as to maximum
age.
In subsection (b), the words 'The organized militia, which
consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia' are
substituted for the words 'the National Guard, the Naval Militia',
since the National Guard and the Naval Militia constitute the
organized militia.
1958 Act
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Revised section Source (U.S. Code) Source (Statutes at
Large)
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311(a) 32 App.:1. July 30, 1956, ch.
789, Sec. 1, 70
Stat. 729.
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The words 'appointed as . . . under section 4 of this title' are
omitted as surplusage.
AMENDMENTS
1958 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 85-861 included female citizens of
the United States who are commissioned officers of the National
Guard.
-CROSS-
CROSS REFERENCES
Congressional power to provide for organization, equipment,
discipline, and government of Militia, see Const. Art. 1, Sec. 8,
cl. 16.
Declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United
States, see section 1445 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.
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