The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-06-14
SELECTIVE SERVICE
STATUS OF VOCATION
Idle Persons and Those Engaged in
Nonproductive Occupations.
DUTY TO REPORT FACTS.

DUTY TO REPORT FACTS.
1t shall hereafter be the duty OF
all persons connected with the ad-
ministration of tho Selective Service
Law and Regulations, and Of all
citizens, to report to the nearest
Local Board all facts which may
come to their knowledge concerning
registrants who are idle or who are
engaged in any occupation or en-
ployment defined and described in
these Regulations or any amend
ments thereof as nonproductivc oc-
cupations or employments.
WITHDRAWAL OF DEFERRED
CLASSIFICATION.
Whenever, after July /, 1918, any
registrant in Class l, II, III, or Nv,
wherever he may be located, is re-
ported to or observed by any Local
Board, whether it be in his Local
Board of origin (that is the Local
Board having original jurisdiction OF
his registration and QUESTIONABLE
or a Locaf8oard having jurisdiction
over the territorial area in which he
may be found, whether having orig
inal Jurisdiction over him or not, to
be an idler, or to be engaged in any
occupation or employment defined
and described in these Regulations or
any amendments thereof as nom
productive occupation OF employ
ment, such Local Board shall, by no
tice as hereinafter prescribed, notify
him and set day and hour when
the registrant may appear and pre-
sent such evidence, by affidavit or
otherwise, bearing upon the reasons
for his status, as he may care to sub
nit. The dGy so set shall be not
less than three nor more than seven
days after the date of such notice
unless the Local Board on account of
distance or other good and sufficient
cause extend the time.
NOTICE AND SERVICE THEREOF.
If such registrant so to be notified
is under the original jurisdiction of
the Local Board Issuing the notice,
whether he be found within or with
out the territorial jurisdiction of
such Local Board of origin, the no.
tice hereinbefore prescribed shall be
by written or printed notice to
the registrant, which may be mailed
to his last known address or served
personally on him by person desig-
mated by the Local Board, and by a
notice posted in the Office of said
Local Board.
If the registrant so to be notified
is found within the area under the
jurisdiction of Local Board issuing
the notice but not having original
jurisdiction of him, the notice here
inbefore prescribed shall be a writ
ten or printed notice to the regis
trant, which shall be served person
ally on him by person designated
by said Local Board, and a notice
posted in the Office of said Local
Board. The notice shall be prepared
in duplicate, and the person who
serves the notice shall leave one
copy with the registrant or with an
adult person at his last known place
of abode, and return the other with
a note of service indorsed on the re-
verse side thereof. The personal
service or the leaving of said notice,
as hereinbefore provided, and the no
tice posted in the Office of the Local
Board, shall constitute the giving of
notice to the registrant and to all
concerned.
A Local Board of origin shall have
the authority to issue notice. to and
investigate the case of any of it's reg
istrants, whether they be found
within it's territorial jurisdiction.
LOCAL BOARD TO INVESTIGATE.
The Local Board issuing the no
tice, whether it be the Local Board
of origin or not, shall thereupon
promptly investigate the circum-
stances of the case, giving the reg
istrant reasonable opportunity to
submit such evidence as he may de-
sire to submit, by affidavit or other
wise, and shall proceed as herein
after prescribed.
PROCEDURE IN CERTAIN CASES.
In case where the rcgistrant is.
not within the original Jurisdiction
of the Local Board issuing the notice
the latter (the investigating Board)
shall make a finding and recon-
and shall forthwith pre-
pare certificate and brief sum-
mary of the facts and its findings
and its specific recommendation, and
shall attach thereto all documentary
evidence and a summary of any oral
testimony which may have been sub