§320 — Title 14 Coast Guard | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of the department that runs the Coast Guard may set up and run a Coast Guard Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at public and private high schools. The rules in chapter 102 of title 10 apply to these Coast Guard JROTC units the same way they apply to other services, with references to the “military department” or its “Secretary” meaning the department where the Coast Guard is operating and its Secretary. By December 31, 2025, the Secretary must keep at least one Coast Guard JROTC program in each Coast Guard district. Units that existed before this law took effect are not automatically covered by chapter 102 unless the Secretary decides to apply those rules to them.

Title 14, §320

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(a)The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating may establish and maintain a Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, organized into units, at public and private secondary educational institutions.

(b)Except as provided in subsection (d), the provisions of chapter 102 of title 10 shall apply to a Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps established and maintained under this section in the same manner that such provisions apply to the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps of each military department. For purposes of the application of such provisions to this section—

(1)any reference in such provisions to a “military department” shall be treated as a reference to the department in which the Coast Guard is operating; and

(2)any reference in such provisions to a “Secretary of a military department”, a “Secretary concerned”, or the “Secretary of Defense” shall be treated as a reference to the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating.

(c)Beginning on December 31, 2025, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall maintain at all times a Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program with not fewer than 1 such program established in each Coast Guard district.

(d)The requirements of chapter 102 of title 10 shall not apply to a unit of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps established by the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating before the date of the enactment of this section unless the Secretary determines it is appropriate to apply such requirements to such unit.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The date of the enactment of this section, referred to in subsec. (d), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 116–92, which was approved Dec. 20, 2019.

Amendments

2022—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–263, § 11247(a)(2), substituted “subsection (d)” for “subsection (c)”. Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 117–263, § 11247(a)(1), (3), added subsec. (c) and redesignated former subsec. (c) as (d).

§320 Coast Guard Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps