10 USC § 8584 - Age of retirement

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title: "10 USC § 8584 - Age of retirement"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "8584"
section_name: "Age of retirement"
chapter_number: 857
chapter_name: "RETIREMENT OF CIVILIAN MEMBERS OF THE TEACHING STAFFS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY AND UNITED STATES NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL"
part_number: "III"
part_name: "EDUCATION AND TRAINING"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 439, § 7084; renumbered § 8584, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(c)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)"
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# § 8584. Age of retirement

A civilian member may be retired at any time after his sixty-fifth birthday, and shall be retired by June 30 following that birthday. However, in any special case the Secretary of the Navy may defer the retirement of a member until a date not later than the member’s seventieth birthday.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 439, § 7084; renumbered § 8584, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(c)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)

| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 7084 | 34 U.S.C. 1073b. | Jan. 16, 1936, ch. 3, § 3, 49 Stat. 1092. |

The words “individual and” are omitted as surplusage.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018— renumbered  as this section.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see , set out as a note preceding .