14 USC § 2153 - Voluntary retirement after thirty years’ service

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title: "14 USC § 2153 - Voluntary retirement after thirty years’ service"
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title_name: "COAST GUARD"
section_number: "2153"
section_name: "Voluntary retirement after thirty years’ service"
chapter_number: 21
chapter_name: "PERSONNEL; OFFICERS"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "DISCHARGES; RETIREMENTS; REVOCATION OF COMMISSIONS; SEPARATION FOR CAUSE"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(C), Sept. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 187, § 292; amended Pub. L. 99–348, title II, § 205(b)(5), July 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 700; renumbered § 2153, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 112(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4216.)"
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# 1 Voluntary retirement after thirty years’ service

See 1986 Amendment note below.

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Any regular commissioned officer who has completed thirty years’ service may, upon his own application, in the discretion of the Secretary, be retired from active service.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(C), Sept. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 187, § 292; amended Pub. L. 99–348, title II, § 205(b)(5), July 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 700; renumbered § 2153, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 112(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4216.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018— renumbered  as this section.

1986— which directed that “, with retired pay of the grade with which retired” be struck out was executed by striking out that phrase after “from active service” as the probable intent of Congress even though there was no comma before “with retired”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Retired Pay on or Prior to September 24, 1963

Savings provisions in , providing that  does not affect the retired pay of anyone retired on or prior to , are set out as a note under .