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[CITE: 10USC1371]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                        CHAPTER 69--RETIRED GRADE
 
Sec. 1371. Warrant officers: general rule

    Unless entitled to a higher retired grade under some other provision 
of law, a warrant officer retires, as determined by the Secretary 
concerned, in the permanent regular or reserve warrant officer grade, if 
any, that he held on the day before the date of his retirement, or in 
any higher warrant officer grade in which he served on active duty 
satisfactorily, as determined by the Secretary, for a period of more 
than 30 days.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 104.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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1371..................................  10:600l(d) (1st sentence).           Ma
y 29, 1954, ch. 249, Sec.  14(d)
                                        10:600l(f) (1st sentence, as          (
1st sentence), (f) (1st sentence,
                                         applicable to retired grade).        a
s applicable to retired grade),
                                        34:430(d) (1st sentence).             6
8 Stat. 163, 164.
                                        34:430(f) (1st sentence, as
                                         applicable to retired grade).
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    The first 13 words are substituted for 10:600l(f) (1st sentence, as 
applicable to retired grade) and 34:430 (1st sentence, as applicable to 
retired grade). The words ``for a period of more than 30 days'' are 
substituted for the words ``under * * * orders specifying that the 
period of such duty shall be for a period in excess of thirty days or 
for an indefinite period'', to conform to the definition of those words 
in section 101(23) of this title. The words ``any full time duty'' are 
omitted, since the duty specified would necessarily be full time duty. 
The words ``under this section'' and ``competent'' are omitted as 
surplusage.


                          Public Health Service

    Authority vested by this chapter in ``military departments'', ``the 
Secretary concerned'', or ``the Secretary of Defense'' to be exercised, 
with respect to commissioned officers of Public Health Service, by 
Secretary of Health and Human Services or his designee, see section 213a 
of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.


             National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

    Authority vested by this chapter in ``military departments'', ``the 
Secretary concerned'', or ``the Secretary of Defense'' to be exercised, 
with respect to Coast and Geodetic Survey [now commissioned officer 
corps of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration], by Secretary 
of Commerce or his designee, see section 857a of Title 33, Navigation 
and Navigable Waters.
