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[Laws in effect as of January 2, 2001]
[Document affected by Public Law 107-107 Section 501(a)]
[CITE: 10USC528]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
         CHAPTER 32--OFFICER STRENGTH AND DISTRIBUTION IN GRADE
 
Sec. 528. Limitation on number of officers on active duty in 
        grades of general and admiral
        
    (a) Limitation.--The total number of officers on active duty in the 
Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps in the grade of general and in the 
Navy in the grade of admiral may not exceed 32.
    (b) Exceptions.--(1) The limitation in subsection (a) does not apply 
in the case of an officer serving in the grade of general or admiral in 
a position that is specifically exempted by law from being counted for 
purposes of limitations by law on the total number of officers that may 
be on active duty in the grades of general and admiral or the number of 
officers that may be on active duty in that officer's armed force in the 
grade of general or admiral.
    (2) An officer continuing to hold the grade of general or admiral 
under section 601(b)(4) of this title after relief from the position of 
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chief of Staff of the Army, Chief 
of Naval Operations, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, or Commandant of 
the Marine Corps shall not be counted for purposes of this section.

(Added Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title IV, Sec. 405(b)(1), Oct. 5, 1994, 
108 Stat. 2744; amended Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title IV, Sec. 403(b), 
title XV, Sec. 1503(a)(4), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 287, 511; Pub. L. 
104-201, div. A, title X, Sec. 1074(a)(3), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 
2658.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-106, Sec. 1503(a)(4), struck out 
``after September 30, 1995,'' after ``officers on active duty''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-201 struck out ``(1)'' after ``(b)'' and 
inserted ``(1)'' before ``The limitation''.
    Pub. L. 104-106, Sec. 403(b), inserted ``(1)'' after ``(b)'' and 
added par. (2).
