Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 7275 of February 22, 2000

Registration Under the Military Selective Service
Act

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Section 3 of the Military Selective Service Act, as
amended (50 U.S.C. App. 453), provides that male
citizens of the United States and other male persons
residing in the United States who are between the ages
of 18 and 26, except those exempted by sections 3 and
6(a) of the Military Selective Service Act, must
present themselves for registration at such time or
times and place or places, and in such manner as
determined by the President. Section 6(k) provides that
such exceptions shall not continue after the cause for
the exemption ceases to exist.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the
United States of America, by the authority vested in me
by the Military Selective Service Act, as amended (50
U.S.C. App. 451 et seq.), do hereby proclaim as
follows:

Section 1. Paragraph 1-201 of Proclamation 4771 of July
2, 1980, is amended to read:

``1-2. Places and Times for Registration.
1-201. Persons who are required to be registered
and who are in the United States shall register at the
places and by the means designated by the Director of
Selective Service. These places and means may include
but are not limited to any classified United States
Post Office, the Selective Service Internet web site,
telephonic registration, registration on approved
Government forms, registration through high school and
college registrars, and the Selective Service reminder
mailback card.''

Sec. 2. Paragraph 1-202 of Proclamation 4771 of July 2,
1980, is amended to read:

``1-202. Citizens of the United States who are
required to be registered and who are not in the United
States, shall register via any of the places and
methods authorized by the Director of Selective Service
pursuant to paragraph 1-201 or present themselves at a
United States Embassy or Consulate for registration
before a diplomatic or consular officer of the United
States or before a registrar duly appointed by a
diplomatic or consular officer of the United States.''

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-second day of February, in the year of our Lord
two thousand, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and twenty-fourth.