{"data":{"id":"us/32-cfr-66.7","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"32 CFR 66.7","heading":"Enlistment waivers.","body":"(a) Waiver requirements. In accomplishing whole person reviews of enlistment eligibility, the following categories and combinations of categories would require a favorable waiver determination by the Secretary of the Military Department concerned for the applicant to be considered qualified. The waiver procedure is not automatic, and approval is based on each individual case.\n(1) Medical waiver. A medical waiver is required for enlistment qualification of an applicant who has or may have had a disqualifying medical condition in accordance with DoD Instruction 6130.03.\n(2) Dependent waiver. A dependent waiver is required when an applicant is married with more than two dependents under the age of 18 or when an applicant is unmarried and has custody of any dependents under the age of 18.\n(3) Conduct waiver. In processing conduct waiver requests, the Military Services will require information about the “who, what, when, where, and why” of the offense in question; and letters of recommendation from responsible community leaders, such as school officials, clergy, and law enforcement officials, attesting to the applicant's character or suitability for enlistment. Waivers are not authorized for cases noted in § 66.6(b)(8)(iii).\n(i) A Conduct Waiver is required when the final finding of the courts or other adjudicating authority is a conviction or other adverse adjudication of:\n(A) One “major misconduct” offense, or;\n(B) Two “misconduct” offenses, or;\n(C) A pattern of misconduct.\n(1) One “misconduct” offense and four “non-traffic” offenses.\n(2) Five or more “non-traffic” offenses.\n(ii) Use the Table of this section to determine the appropriate level of offense and applicable code. See paragraph (b) of this section for additional guidance.\n(4) Drug waiver. A drug waiver is required when an applicant or enlistee is confirmed positive for the presence of drugs at the time of the original or subsequent physical examination (i.e., tests positive on the DAT at a MEPS or equivalent facility). Drug waivers for these applicants may be considered and granted or rejected only after the disqualification period established in section 6 of Enclosure 7 of DoD Instruction 1010.16, “Technical Procedures for the Military Personnel Drug Abuse Testing Program (MPDATP)” (available at http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/101016p.pdf) ends.\n(b) Classifying conduct offenses. The procedures that will be used in the classifying and coding of all conduct offenses are:\n(1) Initial classification. Align the offense that is the subject of adverse adjudication with an offense from the Table of this section. As an exception, any offense classified as a felony under the appropriate State or federal jurisdiction will be treated as a major misconduct offense for DoD purposes regardless of where similar charges are listed.\n(2) Non-similar offenses. If unable to find a similar charge, the Military Services will:\n(i) Treat the offense as a major misconduct offense if the adjudicating authority can impose a maximum period of confinement that exceeds 1 year.\n(ii) Treat the offense as a misconduct offense if the adjudicating authority can impose a maximum period of confinement that exceeds 6 months but is not more than 1 year.\n(iii) Treat all other offenses as either other non-traffic offenses or traffic offenses, depending on the nature of the offense.\nTable to § 66.7—Conduct Waiver Codes\nOffense code Offense title\nTRAFFIC OFFENSES\n100 Bicycle ordinance violation.\n101 Blocking or retarding traffic.\n102 Contempt of court for minor traffic offenses.\n103 Crossing yellow line; driving left of center.\n104 Disobeying traffic lights, signs, or signals.\n105 Driving on shoulder.\n106 Driving uninsured vehicle.\n107 Driving with blocked vision and/or tinted window.\n108 Driving with expired plates or without plates.\n109 Driving with suspended or revoked license.\n110 Driving without license.\n111 Driving without registration or with improper registration.\n112 Driving wrong way on one-way street.\n113 Failure to appear for traffic violations.\n114 Failure to comply with officer's directive.\n115 Failure to have vehicle under control.\n116 Failure to signal.\n117 Failure to stop or yield to pedestrian.\n118 Failure to submit report after accident.\n119 Failure to yield right-of-way.\n120 Faulty equipment such as defective exhaust, horn, lights, mirror, muffler, signal device, steering device, tail pipe, or windshield wipers.\n121 Following too closely.\n122 Hitchhiking.\n123 Improper backing such as backing into intersection or highway, backing on expressway, or backing over crosswalk.\n124 Improper blowing of horn.\n125 Improper passing such as passing on right, passing in no-passing zone, passing stopped school bus, or passing pedestrian in crosswalk.\n126 Improper turn.\n127 Invalid or unofficial inspection sticker or failure to display inspection sticker.\n128 Jaywalking.\n129 Leaving key in ignition.\n130 Leaving scene of accident (when not considered hit and run).\n131 License plates improperly displayed or not displayed.\n132 Operating overloaded vehicle.\n133 Racing, dragging, or contest for speed.\n134 Reckless, careless, or imprudent driving (considered a traffic offense when the fine is less than $300 and there is no confinement). Court costs are not part of a fine.\n135 Reserved for future use.\n136 Seat belt and/or child restraint violation.\n137 Skateboard, roller skate, or inline skate violation.\n138 Speeding.\n139 Spilling load on highway.\n140 Spinning wheels, improper start, zigzagging, or weaving in traffic.\n141 Violation of noise control ordinance.\n142 Other traffic offenses not specifically listed.\n143 Reserved for future use.\n144 Reserved for future use.\nNON-TRAFFIC OFFENSES\n200 Altered driver's license or identification.\n201 Assault (simple assault with fine or restitution of $500 or less and no confinement).\n202 Carrying concealed weapon (other than firearm); possession of brass knuckles.\n203 Check, worthless, making or uttering, with intent to defraud or deceive (less than $500).\n204 Committing a nuisance.\n205 Conspiring to commit misdemeanor.\n206 Curfew violation.\n207 Damaging road signs.\n208 Discharging firearm through carelessness or within municipal limits.\n209 Disobeying summons; failure to appear (other than traffic).\n210 Disorderly conduct; creating disturbance; boisterous conduct.\n211 Disturbing the peace.\n212 Drinking alcoholic beverages on public transportation.\n213 Drunk in public.\n214 Dumping refuse near highway.\n215 Failure to appear, contempt of court (all offenses except felony proceedings).\n216 Failure to appear, contempt of court (felony proceedings).\n217 Failure to stop and render aid after accident.\n218 Fare and/or toll evasion.\n219 Harassment, menacing, or stalking.\n220 Illegal betting or gambling; operating illegal handbook, raffle, lottery, or punchboard; cockfighting.\n221 Indecent exposure.\n222 Indecent, insulting, or obscene language communicated directly or by telephone to another person.\n223 Jumping turnstile (to include those States that adjudicate jumping a turnstile as petty larceny).\n224 Juvenile adjudications such as beyond parental control, incorrigible, runaway, truant, or wayward.\n225 Killing a domestic animal.\n226 Littering.\n227 Loitering.\n228 Malicious mischief (fine or restitution of $500 or less and no confinement).\n229 Pandering.\n230 Poaching.\n231 Purchase, possession, or consumption of alcoholic beverages or tobacco products by minor.\n232 Removing property from public grounds.\n233 Removing property under lien.\n234 Robbing an orchard.\n235 Shooting from highway.\n236 Throwing glass or other material in roadway.\n237 Trespass (non-criminal or simple).\n238 Unlawful assembly.\n239 Unlawful manufacture, sale, possession, or consumption of liquor in public place.\n240 Unlawful use of long-distance telephone calling card.\n241 Using or wearing unlawful emblem and/or identification.\n242 Vagrancy.\n243 Vandalism (fine or restitution of $500 or less and no confinement).\n244 Violation of fireworks laws.\n245 Violation of fish and game laws.\n246 Violation of leash laws.\n247 Violation of probation.\n248 Other non-traffic offenses not specifically listed.\n249 Reserved for future use.\nMISCONDUCT OFFENSES\n300 Aggravated assault, fighting, or battery (more than $500 fine or restitution or confinement).\n301 Carrying of weapon on school grounds (other than firearm).\n302 Concealment of or failure to report a felony.\n303 Contributing to delinquency of minor.\n304 Crimes against the family (non-payment of court-ordered child support and/or alimony).\n305 Criminal mischief (more than $500 fine or restitution or confinement).\n306 Criminal trespass.\n307 Desecration of grave.\n308 Domestic battery and/or violence not considered covered by 18 U.S.C. 922, referred to in this issuance as the “Lautenberg Amendment”).\n309 Driving while drugged or intoxicated; driving while ability impaired; permitting driving under the influence.\n310 Illegal or fraudulent use of a credit card or bank card (value less than $500).\n311 Larceny or conversion (value less than $500).\n312 Leaving scene of an accident or hit and run.\n313 Looting.\n314 Mailbox destruction.\n315 Mailing of obscene or indecent matter (including e-mail).\n316 Possession of marijuana or drug paraphernalia.\n317 Prostitution or solicitation for prostitution.\n318 Reckless, careless, or imprudent driving (considered a misdemeanor when the fine is $300 or more or when confinement is imposed; otherwise, considered a minor traffic offense).\n319 Reckless endangerment.\n320 Resisting arrest or eluding police.\n321 Selling or leasing weapons.\n322 Stolen property, knowingly receiving (value less than $500).\n323 Throwing rocks on a highway; throwing missiles at sporting events; throwing objects at vehicles.\n324 Unauthorized use or taking of a vehicle or conveyance from family member; joy riding.\n325 Unlawful carrying of firearms or carrying concealed firearm.\n326 Unlawful entry.\n327 Use of telephone, Internet, or other electronic means to abuse, annoy, harass, threaten, or torment another.\n328 Vandalism (more than $500 fine or restitution or confinement).\n329 Willfully discharging firearm so as to endanger life; shooting in public.\n330 Other misconduct offenses not specifically listed.\n331 Reserved for future use.\n332 Reserved for future use.\nMAJOR MISCONDUCT OFFENSES\n400 Aggravated assault; assault with dangerous weapon; maiming.\n401 Arson.\n402 Attempt to commit a felony.\n403 Breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony.\n404 Bribery.\n405 Burglary.\n406 Carjacking.\n407 Carnal knowledge of a child.\n408 Carrying of weapon on school grounds (firearm).\n409 Check, worthless, making or uttering, with intent to defraud or deceive (over $500).\n410 Child abuse.\n411 Child pornography.\n412 Conspiring to commit a felony.\n413 Criminal libel.\n414 Domestic battery and/or violence as defined in the Lautenberg Amendment. (Waiver not authorized if applicant was convicted of this offense.)\n415 Embezzlement.\n416 Extortion.\n417 Forgery, knowingly uttering or passing forged instrument (except for altered identification cards).\n418 Grand larceny or larceny (value of $500 or more).\n419 Grand theft auto.\n420 Hate crimes.\n421 Illegal and/or fraudulent use of a credit card, bank card, or automated card (value of $500 or more).\n422 Indecent acts or liberties with a child; molestation.\n423 Indecent assault.\n424 Kidnapping or abduction.\n425 Mail matter; abstracting, destroying, obstructing, opening, secreting, stealing, or taking (not including the destruction of mailboxes).\n426 Manslaughter.\n427 Murder.\n428 Narcotics or habit-forming drugs, wrongful possession or use (not including marijuana).\n429 Negligent or vehicular homicide.\n430 Perjury or subornation of perjury.\n431 Possession or intent to use materials in a manner to make a bomb or explosive device to cause bodily harm or destruction of property.\n432 Public record; altering, concealing, destroying, mutilating, obligation, or removing.\n433 Rape, sexual abuse, sexual assault, criminal sexual abuse, incest, or other sex crimes. (See paragraph (b)(8)(iii) of § 66.6 of this part; waivers for these offenses are not authorized.)\n434 Riot.\n435 Robbery (including armed).\n436 Sale, distribution, or trafficking of cannabis (marijuana) or any other controlled substance (including intent).\n437 Sodomy (only when it is nonconsensual or involves a minor).\n438 Stolen property, knowingly received (value of $500 or more).\n439 Terrorist threats (including bomb threats).\n440 Violation of civil rights.\n441 Other major misconduct offenses not specifically listed.\n442 Reserved for future use.\n443 Reserved for future use.","path":["Title 32—National Defense","Subtitle A—Department of Defense","CHAPTER I—OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE","SUBCHAPTER D—PERSONNEL, MILITARY AND CIVILIAN","PART 66—QUALIFICATION STANDARDS FOR ENLISTMENT, APPOINTMENT, AND INDUCTION"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-32.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:25:30Z","sha256":"f0827a9a8e8a54227bcfd83cf0f9f2142b37ad86a0e9efba77f20de6fee2f22e","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/32-cfr-66.6","next":"us/32-cfr-67.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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