33 U.S.C. § 3043
Mandatory retirement for age
United States · Title 33 — NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS · Status: effective
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- 33 U.S.C. § 3043, Mandatory retirement for age, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/469593
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Unless retired or separated earlier, each officer on the lineal list of the commissioned corps who is serving in a grade below the grade of rear admiral (lower half) shall be retired or separated (as specified in section 1251(e) of title 10) on the first day of the month following the month in which the officer becomes 62 years of age.
Notwithstanding subsection (a), the President may defer the retirement of an officer serving in a position that carries a grade above captain for such period as the President considers advisable, but such a deferment may not extend beyond the first day of the month following the month in which the officer becomes 64 years of age.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- Hydrographic Services Improvement Act Amendments of 2002House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023