---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12558"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12558"
heading: "Service obligation"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12558"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter VII — Police Corps and Law Enforcement Officers Training and Education"
  - "Part A — Police Corps"
---

# §12558. Service obligation

- (a) **Swearing in—** Upon satisfactory completion of the [participant](/usc/34/12552.md)’s course of education and training [program](/usc/34/60701.md?p=2) established in [section 12557 of this title](/usc/34/12557.md) and meeting the requirements of the police force to which the [participant](/usc/34/12552.md) is assigned, a [participant](/usc/34/12552.md) shall be sworn in as a member of the police force to which the [participant](/usc/34/12552.md) is assigned pursuant to the [State](/usc/34/12552.md) Police Corps plan, and shall serve for 4 years as a member of that police force.
- (b) **Rights and responsibilities—** A [participant](/usc/34/12552.md) shall have all of the rights and responsibilities of and shall be subject to all rules and regulations applicable to other members of the police force of which the [participant](/usc/34/12552.md) is a member, including those contained in applicable agreements with labor organizations and those provided by [State](/usc/34/12552.md) and local law.
- (c) **Discipline—** If the police force of which the [participant](/usc/34/12552.md) is a member subjects the [participant](/usc/34/12552.md) to discipline such as would preclude the [participant](/usc/34/12552.md)’s completing 4 years of service, and result in denial of educational assistance under [section 12555 of this title](/usc/34/12555.md), the [Director](/usc/34/12552.md) may, upon a showing of good cause, permit the [participant](/usc/34/12552.md) to complete the service obligation in an equivalent alternative law enforcement service and, if such service is satisfactorily completed, [section 12555(d)(1)(B)(iii) of this title](/usc/34/12555.md?p=d-1-B-iii) shall not apply.
- (d) **Layoffs—** If the police force of which the [participant](/usc/34/12552.md) is a member lays off the [participant](/usc/34/12552.md) such as would preclude the [participant](/usc/34/12552.md)’s completing 4 years of service, and result in denial of educational assistance under [section 12555 of this title](/usc/34/12555.md), the [Director](/usc/34/12552.md) may permit the [participant](/usc/34/12552.md) to complete the service obligation in an equivalent alternative law enforcement service and, if such service is satisfactorily completed, [section 12555(d)(1)(B)(iii) of this title](/usc/34/12555.md?p=d-1-B-iii) shall not apply.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title XX, § 200109, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2055.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 14098 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.