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[CITE: 10USC2102]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                    PART III--TRAINING AND EDUCATION
 
          CHAPTER 103--SENIOR RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS
 
Sec. 2102. Establishment

    (a) For the purpose of preparing selected students for commissioned 
service in the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, the Secretary of 
each military department, under regulations prescribed by the President, 
may establish and maintain a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps 
program, organized into one or more units, at any accredited civilian 
educational institution authorized to grant baccalaureate degrees, and 
at any school essentially military that does not confer baccalaureate 
degrees, upon the request of the authorities at that institution.
    (b) No unit may be established or maintained at an institution 
unless--
        (1) the senior commissioned officer of the armed force concerned 
    who is assigned to the program at that institution is given the 
    academic rank of professor;
        (2) the institution fulfills the terms of its agreement with the 
    Secretary of the military department concerned; and
        (3) the institution adopts, as a part of its curriculum, a four-
    year course of military instruction or a two-year course of advanced 
    training of military instruction, or both, which the Secretary of 
    the military department concerned prescribes and conducts.

    (c) At those institutions where a unit of the program is established 
membership of students in the program shall be elective or compulsory as 
provided by State law or the authorities of the institution concerned.
    (d) The President shall cause to be established and maintained in 
each State at least one unit of the program if--
        (1) a unit is requested by an educational institution in the 
    State;
        (2) such request is approved by the Governor of the State in 
    which the institution requesting the unit is located; and
        (3) the Secretary of the military department concerned 
    determines that there will be not less than 40 students enrolled in 
    such unit and that the provisions of this section are otherwise 
    satisfied.

(Added Pub. L. 88-647, title II, Sec. 201(1), Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 
1065; amended Pub. L. 95-79, title VI, Sec. 602, July 30, 1977, 91 Stat. 
332.)


                               Amendments

    1977--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 95-79 added subsec. (d).

                         Delegation of Functions

    Functions of President under subsec. (a) of this section delegated 
to Secretary of Defense, see section 1(10) of Ex. Ord. No. 11390, Jan. 
22, 1968, 33 F.R. 841, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, 
The President.


   Military Training for Female Undergraduates at Military Colleges; 
                               Regulations

    Pub. L. 95-485, title VIII, Sec. 809, Oct. 20, 1978, 92 Stat. 1623, 
directed the Secretary of Defense to require that any college or 
university designated as a military college provide that qualified 
female undergraduate students be eligible to participate in military 
training at such college or university, and prohibited the Secretary 
from requiring such college or university to require female 
undergraduate students enrolled in such college or university to 
participate in military training, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 98-525, 
title XIV, Secs. 1403(b), 1404, Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2621, eff. Oct. 
1, 1985. See section 2009 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2130a of this title.
