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)
         ---------------------------------------------------------------------
         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).
                          -------------------------------
           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
         ---------------------------------------------------------------------
         Revised section        Source (U.S. Code)     Source (Statutes at
                                                        Large)
         ---------------------------------------------------------------------
         311(a)                 32 App.:1.             July 30, 1956, ch.
                                                        789, Sec. 1, 70
                                                        Stat. 729.
                          -------------------------------
           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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