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Executive Order 11391—Amending the Selective Service Regulations

January 24, 1968

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Military Selective Service Act of 1967 (62 Stat. 604, as amended), I hereby prescribe the following amendments of the Selective Service Regulations prescribed by Executive Orders No. 10344 of April 17, 1952, No. 10594 of January 31, 1955, and No. 10837 of September 14, 1959, and constituting portions of Part 1655—Registration of United States Citizens Outside of the United States and Classification of Such Registrants, of Chapter XVI of Title 32 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

1. Subparagraph (4) of paragraph (b) of section 1655.6, Records to be Completed by Local Board Receiving Registration Questionnaire—Foreign (SSS Form 50) and Assignment of Selective Service Number, is amended to read as follows:

"(4) Mail the completed Registration Certificate (SSS Form 2) to the registrant at his present mailing address as given on line 5 of the Registration Questionnaire—Foreign (SSS Form 50) if such address is a military post office (APO or FPO), or Canada or Mexico; however, if such mailing address is outside the continental United States, the State of Alaska, the State of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Canal Zone, Canada, or Mexico, and a foreign mailing address is used, such form shall be mailed to the Director of Selective Service for transmittal to the registrant."

2. Paragraph (c) of section 1655.10, Preparation for Classification, is amended to read as follows:

"(c) If the registrant is outside the United States and is in a country other than Canada or Mexico and does not give a military post office (APO or FPO) as his address on line 5 of the Registration Questionnaire—Foreign (SSS Form 50), the Classification Questionnaire (SSS Form 100) shall be mailed by the local board to the Director of Selective Service for transmittal to the registrant, and, unless the local board grants an extension of time for its return, the registrant shall complete and return his Classification Questionnaire (SSS Form 100) through the Director of Selective Service within 60 days after the date the local board transmitted it to him."

3. Paragraph (b) of section 1655.11, Classification, is amended to read as follows:

"(b) The Notice of Classification (SSS Form 110) shall be mailed to the registrant at his present mailing address as given on line 5 of the Registration Questionnaire—Foreign (SSS Form 50) if such address is a military post office (APO or FPO), or Canada or Mexico; however, if such mailing address is outside the continental United States, the State of Alaska, the State of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Canal Zone, Canada, or Mexico, and a foreign mailing address is used, such form shall be mailed to the Director of Selective Service for transmittal to the registrant."

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

The White House

January 24, 1968

NOTE: Executive Order 11391 was not made public in the form of a White House press release.

Lyndon B. Johnson, Executive Order 11391—Amending the Selective Service Regulations Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/239368

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