Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73
§8584 Age of retirement
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— - Navy and Marine Corps › Part PART III— - EDUCATION AND TRAINING › Chapter CHAPTER 857— - RETIREMENT OF CIVILIAN MEMBERS OF THE TEACHING STAFFS OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY AND UNITED STATES NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL › § 8584
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Title 10, §8584
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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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Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 708434 U.S.C. 1073b.Jan. 16, 1936, ch. 3, § 3, 49 Stat. 1092. The words “individual and” are omitted as surplusage.
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Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7084 of this title as this section.
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Effective Date
of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of
Amendments
and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.
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10 U.S.C. § 8584
Title 10 — Armed Forces
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Apr 6, 2026
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