Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Individual Ready Reserve Members of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
Signed January 16, 2010·Barack Obama·75 FR 3331
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Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating as part of the Navy, to order units and individual members of the Selected Reserve, as well as certain members of the Individual Ready Reserve designated as essential, to active duty. The order states this action is needed to increase the active Armed Forces to conduct operational missions, including humanitarian assistance, related to relief efforts in Haiti following the January 12, 2010 earthquake. It also allows those officials to terminate the active-duty service of such units and members. The order specifies that it does not create any legally enforceable right or benefit for any party against the United States or its officers, employees, or agents.
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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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Executive Order 13529 of January 16, 2010
Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain
Individual Ready Reserve Members 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 operational
missions, including those involving humanitarian
assistance, related to relief efforts in Haiti
necessitated by the earthquake on January 12, 2010.
Further, under the stated authority, I hereby authorize
the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland
Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not
operating as a service in the Navy, under their
respective jurisdictions, 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, or any member in the Individual Ready Reserve
mobilization category and designated as essential under
regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned, and
to terminate the service of those units and members
ordered to active duty.
This order is not intended to, and does not, create any
right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity, by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 16, 2010.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed January 16, 2010. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.