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[CITE: 10USC14507]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                     Subtitle E--Reserve Components
 
  PART III--PROMOTION AND RETENTION OF OFFICERS ON THE RESERVE ACTIVE-
                               STATUS LIST
 
    CHAPTER 1407--FAILURE OF SELECTION FOR PROMOTION AND INVOLUNTARY 
                               SEPARATION
 
Sec. 14507. Removal from the reserve active-status list for 
        years of service: reserve lieutenant colonels and colonels of 
        the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps and reserve commanders and 
        captains of the Navy
        
    (a) Lieutenant Colonels and Commanders.--Unless continued on the 
reserve active-status list under section 14701 or 14702 of this title or 
retained as provided in section 12646 or 12686 of this title, each 
reserve officer of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps who holds 
the grade of lieutenant colonel or commander and who is not on a list of 
officers recommended for promotion to the next higher grade shall (if 
not earlier removed from the reserve active-status list) be removed from 
that list under section 14514 of this title on the first day of the 
month after the month in which the officer completes 28 years of 
commissioned service.
    (b) Colonels and Navy Captains.--Unless continued on the reserve 
active-status list under section 14701 or 14702 of this title or 
retained as provided in section 12646 or 12686 of this title, each 
reserve officer of the Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps who holds the 
grade of colonel, and each reserve officer of the Navy who holds the 
grade of captain, and who is not on a list of officers recommended for 
promotion to the next higher grade shall (if not earlier removed from 
the reserve active-status list) be removed from that list under section 
14514 of this title on the first day of the month after the month in 
which the officer completes 30 years of commissioned service. This 
subsection does not apply to the adjutant general or assistant adjutants 
general of a State.
    (c) Temporary Authority To Retain Certain Officers Designated as 
Judge Advocates.--(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) 
and (b), the Secretary of the Air Force may retain on the reserve 
active-status list any reserve officer of the Air Force who is 
designated as a judge advocate and who obtained the first professional 
degree in law while on an educational delay program subsequent to being 
commissioned through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
    (2) No more than 50 officers may be retained on the reserve active-
status list under the authority of paragraph (1) at any time.
    (3) No officer may be retained on the reserve active-status list 
under the authority of paragraph (1) for a period exceeding three years 
from the date on which, but for that authority, that officer would have 
been removed from the reserve active-status list under subsection (a) or 
(b).
    (4) The authority of the Secretary of the Air Force under paragraph 
(1) expires on September 30, 2003.

(Added Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title XVI, Sec. 1611, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 
Stat. 2951; amended Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title V, Sec. 508(a), Sept. 
23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2513.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-201 added subsec. (c).


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Section 508(b) of Pub. L. 104-201 provided that: ``Subsection (c) of 
section 14507 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection 
(a), shall take effect on October 1, 1996.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 10214, 14514, 14701, 14702 
of this title.
