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[CITE: 10USC123b]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
            PART I--ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS
 
                 CHAPTER 3--GENERAL POWERS AND FUNCTIONS
 
Sec. 123b. Forces stationed abroad: limitation on number

    (a) End-Strength Limitation.--No funds appropriated to the 
Department of Defense may be used to support a strength level of members 
of the armed forces assigned to permanent duty ashore in nations outside 
the United States at the end of any fiscal year at a level in excess of 
203,000.
    (b) Exception for Wartime.--Subsection (a) does not apply in the 
event of a declaration of war or an armed attack on any member nation of 
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Japan, the Republic of Korea, or 
any other ally of the United States.
    (c) Presidential Waiver.--The President may waive the operation of 
subsection (a) if the President declares an emergency. The President 
shall immediately notify Congress of any such waiver.

(Added Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title XIII, Sec. 1312(a)(1), Oct. 5, 
1994, 108 Stat. 2894.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in Pub. 
L. 102-484, div. A, title XIII, Sec. 1302, Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 
2545, which was set out as a note under section 113 of this title, prior 
to repeal by Pub. L. 103-337, Sec. 1312(c).


                             Effective Date

    Section 1312(b) of Pub. L. 103-337 provided that: ``Section 123b of 
title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), does not apply 
with respect to a fiscal year before fiscal year 1996.''
