[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 6]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR1656.2]

[Page 345-346]
 
                        TITLE 32-NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                  CHAPTER XVI--SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
 
PART 1656_ALTERNATIVE SERVICE--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1656.2  Order to perform alternative service.

    (a) The local board of jurisdiction shall order any registrant who 
has been classified in Class 1-O or 1-O-S to perform alternative service 
at a time and place to be specified by the Director.
    (b) When the local board orders a registrant to perform alternative 
service, it shall be the duty of the registrant to report for and 
perform alternative service at the time and place ordered unless the 
order has been canceled. If the time when the registrant is ordered to 
report for alternative service is postponed, it shall be the continuing 
duty of the registrant to report for and perform alternative service at 
such time and place as he may be reordered. Regardless of the time when 
or the circumstances under which a registrant fails to report for and 
perform alternative service when it is his duty to do so, it shall 
thereafter be his continuing duty from day to day to report for and 
perform alternative service at the place specified in the order to 
report for and perform alternative service.
    (c) The Director may authorize a delay of reporting for alternative 
service for any registrant whose date of induction conflicts with a 
religious holiday historically observed by a recognized church, 
religious sect or religious organization of which he is a member. Any 
registrant so delayed shall report for alternative service on the next 
business day following the religious holiday.
    (d)(1) Any registrant who is satisfactorily pursuing a full-time 
course of instruction at a high school or similar institution of 
learning and is issued an order to perform alternative service shall, 
upon presentation of appropriate facts in the manner prescribed by the 
Director of Selective Service, have his date to report to perform 
alternative service postponed:
    (i) Until the time of his graduation therefrom; or
    (ii) Until he attains the twentieth anniversary of his birth; or
    (iii) Until the end of his last academic year, even if he has 
attained the twentieth anniversary of his birth; or
    (iv) Until he ceases satisfactorily to pursue such course of 
instruction, whichever is the earliest.
    (2) Any registrant who, while satisfactorily pursuing a full-time 
course of instruction at a college, university or similar institution of 
learning, is ordered to perform alternative service shall, upon the 
presentation of appropriate facts in the manner prescribed by the 
Director of Selective Service, have his date to report to perform 
alternative service.
    (i) Until the end of the semester or term, or in the case of his 
last academic year, the end of the academic year; or
    (ii) Until he ceases to satisfactorily pursue such course of 
instruction, whichever is the earlier.
    (e) After the order to perform alternative service has been issued, 
the Director may postpone for a specific time the date when such 
registrant is required to report in the following circumstances:
    (1) In the case of the death of a member of the registrant's 
immediate family, extreme emergency involving a member of the 
registrant's immediate family, serious illness or injury of the 
registrant, or other emergency beyond the registrant's control. The 
period of postponement shall not exceed 60 days

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from the date of the order to perform alternative service. When 
necessary, the Director may grant one further postponement but the total 
postponement shall not exceed 90 days from the reporting date on the 
order to perform alternative service.
    (2) When the registrant qualifies and is scheduled for a State or 
National examination in a profession or occupation which requires 
certification before being authorized to engage in the practice of that 
profession or occupation.
    (f) The Director shall issue to each registrant whose reporting date 
to perform alternative service is postponed a written notice thereof.
    (g) A postponement of reporting date to perform alternative service 
shall not render invalid the order to report for alternative service 
which has been issued to the registrant, but shall operate only to 
postpone the reporting date, and the registrant shall report on the new 
date scheduled without having issued to him a new order to report for 
alternative service.
    (h) Any registrant receiving a postponement under the provisions of 
this section, shall, after the expiration of such postponement, be 
rescheduled to report for alternative service at the place to which he 
was originally ordered.

[52 FR 8891, Mar. 20, 1987]