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50 USC § 3807 - Bounties for induction; substitutes; purchase of release

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identifier: "/us/usc/t50/s3807"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "50 USC § 3807 - Bounties for induction; substitutes; purchase of release"
title_number: 50
title_name: "WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE"
section_number: "3807"
section_name: "Bounties for induction; substitutes; purchase of release"
chapter_number: 49
chapter_name: "MILITARY SELECTIVE SERVICE"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 24, 1948, ch. 625, title I, § 8, 62 Stat. 614; Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, § 22(d), 70A Stat. 630.)"
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# § 3807. Bounties for induction; substitutes; purchase of release

section 3803 of this title

No bounty may be paid to induce any person to be inducted into an armed force. A clothing allowance authorized by law is not a bounty for the purposes of this section. No person liable for training and service under this Act may furnish a substitute for that training or service. No person may be enlisted, inducted, or appointed in an armed force as a substitute for another. No person liable for training and service under  may escape that training and service or be discharged before the end of his period of training and service by paying money or any other valuable thing as consideration for his release from that training and service or liability therefor.

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**Source Credit**: (June 24, 1948, ch. 625, title I, § 8, 62 Stat. 614; Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, § 22(d), 70A Stat. 630.)

### Termination of Induction for Training and Service

For provisions relating to termination of induction for training and service in the Armed Forces after , see .

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is , , known as the Military Selective Service Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see References in Text note set out under  and Tables.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 458 of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Section 8 of act , , cited as a credit to this section, was repealed by , , 678, and provisions thereof (as applicable to induction) were restated in this section by section 22(d) of act . Provisions of such section 8 (less applicability to induction) were restated by first section of act , as , Armed Forces.

### Amendments

1956—Act , struck out provisions which prohibited payment of any bounty to induce any person to enlist into Armed Forces. See , Armed Forces.