Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
Signed December 8, 1995·William J. Clinton·60 FR 63895
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Plain-language summary
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating under the Department of the Navy, to order units and individual members of the Selected Reserve of the Armed Forces to active duty. The order states this action is needed to increase the size of active armed forces to support military operations in and around the former Yugoslavia. It relies on authority granted under sections 121 and 12304 of title 10 of the United States Code. The order specifies it is meant only to improve internal executive branch management and does not create any enforceable legal rights for outside parties. It directs that the order be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to Congress.
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Claimed authority
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 121 and 12304 of title 10, United States Code, I hereby
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Disposition
Amends: EO 13286, February 28, 2003;; ; See: Department of Defense notice of February 11, 1997 (62 FR 6953)
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The order, in full
Executive Order 12982 of December 8, 1995
Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed Forces
to Active Duty
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including sections 121 and 12304 of title 10,
United States Code, I hereby determine that it is
necessary to augment the active armed forces of the
United States for the effective conduct of operations
in and around former Yugoslavia. Further, under the
stated authority, I hereby authorize the Secretary of
Defense, and the Secretary of Transportation with
respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as
a service in the Department of the Navy, to order to
active duty any units, and any individual members not
assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit, of the
Selected Reserve.
This order is intended only to improve the internal
management of the executive branch and is not intended
to create any right or benefit, substantive or
procedural, enforceable at law by a party against the
United States, its agencies, its officers, or any
person.
This order shall be published in the Federal Register
and transmitted to the Congress.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 8, 1995.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 8, 1995. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.