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Title 10 — Armed Forces

Part II · Chapter 43 — Rank and Command

§ 750. Command: retired officers

Statutory text

A retired officer has no right to command except when on active duty.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Defense Officer Personnel Management Act

    Pub. L. 96–513 title I § 108 · 94 Stat. 2835

    Enacted · 10 U.S.C. § 750

    (Added Pub. L. 96–513, title I, § 108, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2870.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Added Pub. L. 96–513, title I, § 108, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2870.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 108. right of retired officers to command Chapter 43, relating to rank and command, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “§750. Command: retired officers “A retired officer has no right to command except when on active duty.”.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective , but the authority to prescribe regulations under this section effective on , see section 701 of Pub. L. 96–513, set out as an Effective Date of 1980 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.

Credits

(Added Pub. L. 96–513, title I, § 108, , 94 Stat. 2870.)

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