[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 8 (Monday, February 28, 2000)]
[Pages 353-354]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7275--Registration Under the Military Selective Service Act

February 22, 2000

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,

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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.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., February 23, 
2000]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on 
February 21.