Chapter 49, Section 3805, Subsection (a) · 50 U.S.C. Chapter 49 — MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE

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(a)

(1)no local board shall order for induction for training and service in the Armed Forces of the United States any person who has not attained the age of nineteen unless there is not within the jurisdiction of such local board a sufficient number of persons who are deemed by such local board to be available for induction and who have attained the age of nineteen to enable such local board to meet a call for men which it has been ordered to furnish for induction;

(2)Repealed. Pub. L. 91–124, § 2, Nov. 26, 1969, 83 Stat. 220.

(3)no local board shall order for induction for training and service in the Armed Forces of the United States an alien unless such alien shall have resided in the United States for one year.

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duly ordained minister of religion
means a person who has been ordained, in accordance with the ceremonial, ritual, or discipline of a church, religious sect, or organization established on the basis of a community of faith and belief, doctrines and practices of a religious character, to preach and to teach the doctrines of such church, sect, or organization and to administer the rites and ceremonies thereof in public worship, and who as his regular and customary vocation preaches and teaches the principles of religion and administers the ordinances of public worship as embodied in the creed or principles of such church, sect, or organization.
Government agency
means any department, agency, independent establishment, or corporation in the Executive branch of the United States Government.
person
means any individual, firm, company, association, corporation, or other form of business organization.
regular minister of religion
means one who as his customary vocation preaches and teaches the principles of religion of a church, a religious sect, or organization of which he is a member, without having been formally ordained as a minister of religion, and who is recognized by such church, sect, or organization as a regular minister.
sister
means a brother of the whole blood or a sister of the whole blood, as the case may be.