46 U.S.C. § 51311 — Midshipman status in the Navy Reserve
submitted 20 years ago by Pub. L. 109-304 to r/title-46-SHIPPING · 178 words · no verdicts yet
Before Academy appointment, a United States citizen must agree to apply for Navy Reserve midshipman status. Appointed cadets receive that appointment, an identification card, and Ready Reserve rights under the same eligibility criteria as other members.
(a) Before appointment, a United States citizen must agree to apply for Navy Reserve midshipman status, including the Merchant Marine Reserve. (b)(1) An appointed citizen cadet must be appointed by the Navy Secretary as a Navy Reserve midshipman. (2) The Navy Secretary must provide a military ID card and all rights and privileges available under the same eligibility criteria to other Ready Reserve members of armed-forces reserve components. (3) The Navy Secretary carries out these duties with the Transportation Secretary.
Before being appointed as a cadet at the United States Merchant Marine Academy*, a citizen of the United States must agree to apply for midshipman status in the Navy Reserve (including the Merchant Marine Reserve, Navy Reserve).
A citizen of the United States appointed as a cadet at the Academy shall be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy as a midshipman in the Navy Reserve (including the Merchant Marine Reserve, Navy Reserve).
The Secretary of the Navy shall provide for cadets of the Academy who are midshipmen in the United States Navy Reserve to be—
issued an identification card (referred to as a “military ID card”); and
entitled to all rights and privileges in accordance with the same eligibility criteria as apply to other members of the Ready Reserve of the reserve components of the armed forces.
The Secretary of the Navy shall carry out paragraphs (1) and (2) in coordination with the Secretary of Transportation.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 109–304, § 8(b), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1575; Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title V, § 515(g)(2), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3236; Pub. L. 110–181, div. C, title XXXV, § 3523(a)(1), (b), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 598, 600.)
- 2006Enacted · Pub. L. 109-304 · 120 Stat. 1575
- 2006Amended · Pub. L. 109-163 · 119 Stat. 3236
- 2008Amended · Pub. L. 110-181 · 122 Stat. 598, 600
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