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[CITE: 10USC14703]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                     Subtitle E--Reserve Components
 
  PART III--PROMOTION AND RETENTION OF OFFICERS ON THE RESERVE ACTIVE-
                               STATUS LIST
 
CHAPTER 1409--CONTINUATION OF OFFICERS ON THE RESERVE ACTIVE-STATUS LIST 
                       AND SELECTIVE EARLY REMOVAL
 
Sec. 14703. Authority to retain chaplains and officers in 
        medical specialties until specified age
        
    (a) Retention.--Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 1407 of 
this title and except for officers referred to in sections 14503, 14504, 
14505, and 14506 of this title and under regulations prescribed by the 
Secretary of Defense--
        (1) the Secretary of the Army may, with the officer's consent, 
    retain in an active status any reserve officer assigned to the 
    Medical Corps, the Dental Corps, the Veterinary Corps, the Medical 
    Services Corps (if the officer has been designated as allied health 
    officer or biomedical sciences officer in that Corps), the Optometry 
    Section of the Medical Services Corps, the Chaplains, the Army Nurse 
    Corps, or the Army Medical Specialists Corps;
        (2) the Secretary of the Navy may, with the officer's consent, 
    retain in an active status any reserve officer appointed in the 
    Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Nurse Corps, or Chaplain Corps or 
    appointed in the Medical Services Corps and designated to perform as 
    a veterinarian, optometrist, podiatrist, allied health officer, or 
    biomedical sciences officer; and
        (3) the Secretary of the Air Force may, with the officer's 
    consent, retain in an active status any reserve officer who is 
    designated as a medical officer, dental officer, Air Force nurse, 
    Medical Service Corps officer, biomedical sciences officer, or 
    chaplain.

    (b) Separation at Specified Age.--An officer may not be retained in 
active status under this section later than the date on which the 
officer becomes 67 years of age.

(Added Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title XVI, Sec. 1611, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 
Stat. 2956; amended Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title V, Sec. 516, Oct. 5, 
1999, 113 Stat. 594; Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title V, 
Sec. 523], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-108.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in 
sections 3855(a), (c)(1), 6392(a), (c)(1), and 8855(a), (c)(1) of this 
title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103-337, Sec. 1629(a)(3), (b)(3), 
(c)(3).


                               Amendments

    2000--Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 106-398 substituted ``Air Force nurse, 
Medical Service Corps officer, biomedical sciences officer, or 
chaplain.'' for ``veterinary officer, Air Force nurse, or chaplain or 
who is designated as a biomedical sciences officer and is qualified for 
service as a veterinarian, optometrist, or podiatrist.''
    1999--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106-65 struck out ``(or, in the case of a 
reserve officer of the Army in the Chaplains or a reserve officer of the 
Air Force designated as a chaplain, 60 years of age)'' after ``67 years 
of age''.
