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Title 50 — War and National Defense

Chapter 49 — Military Selective Service

§ 3807. Bounties for induction; substitutes; purchase of release

Statutory text

No bounty may be paid to induce any person to be inducted into an armed force. A clothing allowance authorized by law is not a bounty for the purposes of this section. No person liable for training and service under this Act may furnish a substitute for that training or service. No person may be enlisted, inducted, or appointed in an armed force as a substitute for another. No person liable for training and service under section 3803 of this title may escape that training and service or be discharged before the end of his period of training and service by paying money or any other valuable thing as consideration for his release from that training and service or liability therefor.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 80–625 · 62 Stat. 604

    Enacted · 50 U.S.C. § 3807

    June 24, 1948, ch. 625, title I, § 8, 62 Stat. 614

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 24, 1948, ch. 625, title I, § 8, 62 Stat. 614

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Notes

Termination of Induction for Training and Service

For provisions relating to termination of induction for training and service in the Armed Forces after , see section 3815(c) of this title.

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is act June 24, 1948, ch. 625, 62 Stat. 604, known as the Military Selective Service Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see References in Text note set out under section 3801 of this title and Tables.

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 458 of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section 8 of act , 62 Stat. 614, cited as a credit to this section, was repealed by act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, § 53, 70A Stat. 641, 678, and provisions thereof (as applicable to induction) were restated in this section by section 22(d) of act . Provisions of such section 8 (less applicability to induction) were restated by first section of act , as section 514 of Title 10, Armed Forces.

Amendments

1956—Act , struck out provisions which prohibited payment of any bounty to induce any person to enlist into Armed Forces. See section 514 of Title 10, Armed Forces.

Credits

1948–1956 · 2 acts
  1. 1948June 24, 1948, ch. 625, title I, § 8, 62 Stat. 614
  2. 1956Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, § 22(d), 70A Stat. 630.
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(June 24, 1948, ch. 625, title I, § 8, 62 Stat. 614; Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, § 22(d), 70A Stat. 630.)

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