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[CITE: 10USC640]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
    CHAPTER 36--PROMOTION, SEPARATION, AND INVOLUNTARY RETIREMENT OF 
                    OFFICERS ON THE ACTIVE-DUTY LIST
 
     SUBCHAPTER IV--CONTINUATION ON ACTIVE DUTY AND SELECTIVE EARLY 
                               RETIREMENT
 
Sec. 640. Deferment of retirement or separation for medical 
        reasons
        
    The Secretary of the military department concerned may defer the 
retirement or separation under this title of any 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 or medical observation that cannot be 
completed before the date on which the officer would otherwise be 
required to retire or be separated under this title.

(Added Pub. L. 96-513, title I, Sec. 105, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2866.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 641 of this title.
