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[CITE: 33USC853l]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                    CHAPTER 17--NATIONAL OCEAN SURVEY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 853l. Retirement for length of service upon application

    When any commissioned officer has completed twenty years of service, 
he may at any time thereafter, upon his own application, in the 
discretion of the President, be placed on the retired list.

(June 3, 1948, ch. 390, Sec. 14, formerly Sec. 13, 62 Stat. 299; 
renumbered Sec. 14 and amended Pub. L. 87-233, Sec. 1(e), Sept. 14, 
1961, 75 Stat. 506.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 14 of act June 3, 1948, was classified to section 
853m of this title prior to repeal by act Oct. 12, 1949.


                               Amendments

    1961--Pub. L. 87-233 substituted ``twenty'' for ``thirty''.

                         Delegation of Functions

    Functions of the President under this section delegated to the 
Secretary of Commerce, see section 1(f) of Ex. Ord. No. 11023, May 28, 
1962, 27 F.R. 5131, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The 
President.
