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 PUBLIC LAW 96-513—DEC. 12, 1980

94 STAT. 2835

Public Law 96-513 96th Congress An Act To amend title 10, United States Code, to revise and standardize the provisions of law relating to appointment, promotion, separation, and mandatory retirement of regular commissioned officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, to establish the permanent grade of commodore admiral in the Navy, to equalize the treatment of female commissioned officers with that of male commissioned officers, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE; TABLE O F CONTENTS

1. (a) This Act may be cited as the "Defense Officer Personnel Management Act", (b) The table of contents for this Act is as follows: SECTION

TABLE OF CONTENTS Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. References to title 10, United States Code. TITLE I—AMENDMENTS TO SUBTITLE A OF TITLE 10, UNITED STATES CODE—GENERAL MILITARY LAW Sec. 101. Definitions. Sec. 102. Exclusion of certain personnel from annual end-strengths; annual report on estimated officer personnel requirements for next five years. Sec. 103. Officer strength and distribution in grade. Sec. 104. Original appointments in regular commissioned officer grades. Sec. 105. Temporary appointments in officer grades and promotion, separation, and involuntary retirement of officers on the active-duty list. Sec. 106. Authority to order retired members of regular components to active duty; grade in which reserve officers ordered to active duty. Sec. 107. Rank of commissioned officers among themselves. Sec. 108. Right of retired officers to command. Sec. 109. Separation pay upon involuntary discharge or release from active duty. Sec. 110. Involuntary separation of regular officers for substandard performance of duty or for certain other reasons. Sec. 111. Retirement of regular commissioned officers at age 62. Sec. 112. Requirement of three years service in grade for voluntary retirement. Sec. 113. Computation of retired pay for regular officers retiring for age or years of service. Sec. 114. Officers attending Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences to be counted against authorized military strengths. Sec. 115. Repeal of certain gender-based differences in treatment of dependents. Sec. 116. Extension of restrictions on performance of civil functions to all officers on active duty. Sec. 117 Permanent authority for certain provisions relating to disability retirement.

Dec. 12, 1980 [S. 1918]

Defense Officer Personnel Management Act.

10 USC lOl note.

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