14 U.S.C. · Coast Guard
14 U.S.C. § 2156

Deferment of retirement or separation for medical reasons

Ch. 21 — PERSONNEL; OFFICERS
Title 14 U.S.C. ● ACTIVE Primary Source Ch. 21
Statutory Text

14 U.S.C. § 2156 — Deferment of retirement or separation for medical reasons

U.S.C. Title 14 - COAST GUARD 14 U.S.C. United States Code, 2023 Edition Title 14 - COAST GUARD SUBTITLE II - PERSONNEL CHAPTER 21 - PERSONNEL; OFFICERS SUBCHAPTER II - DISCHARGES; RETIREMENTS; REVOCATION OF COMMISSIONS; SEPARATION FOR CAUSE Sec. 2156 - Deferment of retirement or separation for medical reasons From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

§2156. Deferment of retirement or separation for medical reasons

(a) Subject to subsection (b), the Secretary may defer the retirement or separation of a commissioned officer, other than a commissioned warrant officer, if the evaluation of the physical condition of the officer and determination of the officer's entitlement to retirement or separation for physical disability require hospitalization, medical observation, or other physical disability processing that cannot be completed before the date on which the officer would otherwise be retired or separated. (b) A deferment under subsection (a)— (1) may only be made with the consent of the officer involved; and (2) if the Secretary receives written notice from the officer withdrawing that consent, shall end not later than the end of the sixty-day period beginning on the date the Secretary receives that notice.

(Added Pub. L. 98–557, §17(b)(2)(A), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2867, §295; renumbered §2156, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, §112(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4216.)

Editorial Notes

Amendments 2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 295 of this title as this section.

Source: uscode.house.gov — public domain Official Source ↗
Root-LD Entity Data
◈ Machine-Readable Provenance Record Root-LD v1.0 · boisestandard.org
Federation ID
BS-USC14-SEC-BE7E2F
Entity Class
STATUTE / FEDERAL-CODE-SECTION
Domain Signature
boisestandard.org
Citation
14 U.S.C. § 2156
Jurisdiction
Federal — United States
Status
✓ ACTIVE
Source
PRIMARY-SOURCE
Source Verified
✓ TRUE
Content Hash
ccbf0627b01eb14c...
Semantic Edges
Pending — corpus passes queued
The statutory text of 14 U.S.C. § 2156 is reproduced from the official United States Code as published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives (uscode.house.gov).
Navigate Corpus — Title 14
◈ Provenance
boisestandard.org United States Law U.S. Code Title 14 14 U.S.C. § 2156