Executive Order 11241—Amending the Selective Service Regulations

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, No. 11098 of March 14, 1963, and No. 11119 of September 10, 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 (A) 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, or (B) have a wife whom they married after the effective date of this amended subparagraph and 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. Subparagraph (4) is amended 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 whom they married on or before the effective date of this amended subparagraph and 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:"

3. The effective date of the amended subparagraphs referred to in this Order is the date of this Order.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

The White House

August 26, 1965