§2009 — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Defense can set rules that require a college or university called a military college to let qualified female undergraduate students be eligible to take part in the military training offered there if the school wants to keep that designation. Those rules cannot force a college to make female undergraduates actually take the military training.

Title 10, §2009

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(a)Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, any college or university designated by the Secretary of Defense as a military college shall, as a condition of maintaining such designation, provide that qualified female undergraduate students enrolled in such college or university be eligible to participate in military training at such college or university.

(b)Regulations prescribed under subsection (a) may not require a college or university, as a condition of maintaining its designation as a military college or for any other purpose, to require female undergraduate students enrolled in such college or university to participate in military training.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in Pub. L. 95–485, title VIII, § 809, Oct. 20, 1978, 92 Stat. 1623, which was set out as a note under section 2102 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 98–525, §§ 1403(b), 1404.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1985, see section 1404 of Pub. L. 98–525, set out as a note under section 520b of this title.

§2009 Military colleges: female students