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[CITE: 10USC671b]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                         CHAPTER 39--ACTIVE DUTY
 
Sec. 671b. Members: service extension when Congress is not in 
        session
        
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when the President 
determines that the national interest so requires, he may, if Congress 
is not in session, having adjourned sine die, authorize the Secretary of 
Defense to extend for not more than six months enlistments, 
appointments, periods of active duty, periods of active duty for 
training, periods of obligated service, or other military status, in any 
component of the armed forces, that expire before the thirtieth day 
after Congress next convenes or reconvenes.
    (b) An extension under this section continues until the sixtieth day 
after Congress next convenes or reconvenes or until the expiration of 
the period of extension specified by the Secretary of Defense, whichever 
occurs earlier, unless sooner terminated by law or Executive order.

(Added Pub. L. 90-235, Sec. 1(a)(1)(A), Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 753; 
amended Pub. L. 101-189, div. A, title VI, Sec. 653(a)(3), Nov. 29, 
1989, 103 Stat. 1462.)


                               Amendments

    1989--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101-189 substituted ``armed forces'' for 
``Armed Forces of the United States''.
