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Executive Order 11119—Amending the Selective Service Regulations

September 10, 1963

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Universal Military Training and Service Act (62 Stat. 604), as amended, I hereby prescribe the following amendments of the Selective Service Regulations prescribed by Executive Orders No. 10735 of October 17, 1957, No. 10984 of January 5, 1962, and No. 11098 of March 14, 1963, and constituting portions of Chapter XVI of Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

1. Subparagraph (3) of paragraph (a) of section 1631.7 of Part 1631, Quotas and Calls, is amended to read as follows:

"(3) Nonvolunteers who have attained the age of 19 years and have not attained the age of 26 years and who do not have a wife with whom they maintain a bona fide family relationship in their homes, in the order of their dates of birth with the oldest being selected first."

2. Subparagraphs (4) and (5) of paragraph (a) of section 1631.7 are redesignated as subparagraphs (5) and (6) respectively, and a new subparagraph (4) is added to paragraph (a) to read as follows:

"(4) Nonvolunteers who have attained the age of 19 years and have not attained the age of 26 years and who have a wife with whom they maintain a bona fide family relationship in their homes, in the order of their dates of birth with the oldest being selected first."

JOHN F. KENNEDY

THE WHITE HOUSE,

September 10, 1963

John F. Kennedy, Executive Order 11119—Amending the Selective Service Regulations Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/236091

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