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§12615 National Civilian Community Corps

Title 42 › CHAPTER 129 — NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER I — NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE STATE GRANT PROGRAM › § 12615

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

A Director appointed under section 12619(c)(1) will run the National Civilian Community Corps. People chosen for the national service or summer program become Corps members. The Director or a person the Director picks will choose members. To join, someone must fill out an application for the Director or another office the Director names. The application must include work experience and other information the Director needs to decide if the person should be chosen. The Director can pick experienced people to be team leaders. Team leaders do the same work and get the same benefits as other members, are not limited by the age rule in section 12613(b), and the Director may raise their living allowance cap by up to 10 percent. The Corps is split into permanent units, and each member is assigned to one. Unit leaders come from the permanent cadre under section 12619(c)(2) and stay with the unit during the agreed service time. Units are grouped into campuses for operations, support, and housing. Each campus has a campus director as its head. Campuses must be cost effective and may be placed in a facility mentioned in section 12622(c) after a feasibility study. The Director must place units and campuses so they are cost effective and can reach urban and rural areas quickly for disasters. Campus directors set conduct rules and may transfer or dismiss members under Director-approved procedures. Members can appeal transfers or dismissals to the Director, who must handle appeals quickly.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §12615

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(a)Director (b) Membership in National Civilian Community Corps
Upon the establishment of the National Civilian Community Corps Program, the National Civilian Community Corps shall be under the direction of the Director appointed pursuant to section 12619(c)(1) of this title.
(c)Organization of Corps into units
(1)Units
The Corps shall be divided into permanent units. Each Corps member shall be assigned to a unit.
(2)Unit leaders
The leader of each unit shall be selected from among persons in the permanent cadre established pursuant to section 12619(c)(2) of this title. The designated leader shall accompany the unit throughout the period of agreed service of the members of the unit.
(d)Campuses
(1)Units to be assigned to campuses
The units of the Corps shall be grouped together as appropriate in campuses for operational, support, and boarding purposes. The Corps campus for a unit shall be in a facility or central location established as the operational headquarters and boarding place for the unit. Corps members may be housed in the campuses.
(2)Campus director (3) Eligible site for campus
There shall be a campus director for each campus. The campus director is the head of the campus.
(e)Distribution of units and campuses
The Director shall ensure that the Corps units and campuses are cost effective and are distributed in urban areas and rural areas such that each Corps unit in a region can be easily deployed for disaster and emergency response to such region.
(f)Standards of conduct
(1)In general
The campus director of each campus shall establish and enforce standards of conduct to promote proper moral and disciplinary conditions in the campus.
(2)Sanctions
Under procedures prescribed by the Director, the campus director of a campus may—
(A)transfer a member of the Corps in that campus to another unit or campus if the campus director determines that the retention of the member in the member’s unit or in the campus director’s campus will jeopardize the enforcement of the standards or diminish the opportunities of other Corps members in that unit or campus, as the case may be; or
(B)dismiss a member of the Corps from the Corps if the campus director determines that retention of the member in the Corps will jeopardize the enforcement of the standards or diminish the opportunities of other Corps members.
(3)Appeals
Under procedures prescribed by the Director, a member of the Corps may appeal to the Director a determination of a campus director to transfer or dismiss the member. The Director shall provide for expeditious disposition of appeals under this paragraph.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 12653d of this title prior to renumbering by Pub. L. 103–82, § 104(b).

Prior Provisions

A prior section 12615, Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 164, Nov. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 3159; Pub. L. 102–384, § 4, Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1455, related to evaluation reports on Peace Corps and VISTA demonstration programs, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–82, § 104(a). A prior section 155 of Pub. L. 101–610 was classified to section 12591 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–82.

Amendments

2009—Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(1), amended section catchline generally. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(2), substituted “National Civilian Community Corps Program” for “Civilian Community Corps Demonstration Program” and “the National Civilian Community Corps shall” for “the Civilian Community Corps shall”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(3)(A), amended heading generally. Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(3)(B), inserted “National” before “Civilian Community Corps”. Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(3)(C), substituted “campus director of the appropriate campus” for “superintendent of the appropriate camp”. Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(3)(D), added par. (4). Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(4)(A), amended heading generally. Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(4)(B), amended heading generally and substituted “in campuses” for “in camps”, “Corps campus” for “Corps camp”, and “in the campuses” for “in the camps”. Subsec. (d)(2), (3). Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(4)(C), amended pars. (2) and (3) generally. Prior to amendment, pars. (2) and (3) related to camp superintendents and eligible sites for camps, respectively. Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(5), amended heading generally and substituted “campuses are cost effective and are distributed” for “camps are distributed” and “rural areas such that each Corps unit in a region can be easily deployed for disaster and emergency response to such region.” for “rural areas in various regions throughout the United States.” Subsec. (f)(1). Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(6)(A), substituted “campus director” for “superintendent” and, in two places, substituted “campus” for “camp”. Subsec. (f)(2). Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(6)(B)(i), substituted “campus director of a campus” for “superintendent of a camp” in introductory provisions. Subsec. (f)(2)(A). Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(6)(B)(ii), substituted “campus to another unit or campus” for “camp to another unit or camp”, “campus director” for “superintendent”, “campus director’s campus” for “superintendent’s camp”, and “that unit or campus” for “that unit or camp”. Subsec. (f)(2)(B). Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(6)(B)(iii), substituted “campus director” for “superintendent”. Subsec. (f)(3). Pub. L. 111–13, § 1505(6)(C), substituted “campus director” for “camp superintendent”. 1994—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 103–304 substituted “camps” for “Corps” in heading. 1993—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–82, § 403(b), substituted “Director” for “Director of the Civilian Community Corps”. Pub. L. 103–82, § 104(e)(2)(C)(i), substituted “section 12619(c)(1)” for “section 12653h(c)(1)”. Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 103–82, § 104(e)(2)(C)(ii), substituted “section 12619(c)(2)” for “section 12653h(c)(2)”. Subsec. (d)(3). Pub. L. 103–82, § 104(e)(2)(C)(iii), substituted “section 12622(a)(3)” for “section 12653k(a)(3)”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2009 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 111–13 effective Oct. 1, 2009, see section 6101(a) of Pub. L. 111–13, set out as a note under section 4950 of this title.

Effective Date

of 1993 AmendmentAmendment by section 104(b), (e)(2)(C) of Pub. L. 103–82 effective Oct. 1, 1993, see section 123 of Pub. L. 103–82, set out as a note under section 1701 of Title 16, Conservation.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 12615

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110