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33 U.S.C. § 3071 — Applicability of certain provisions of title 10
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**(a) Provisions made applicable to the corps** The rules of law that apply to the Armed Forces under the following provisions of title 10, as those provisions are in effect from time to time, apply also to the commissioned officer corps of the Administration:
(1) Chapter 40, relating to leave.
(2) Section 533(b), relating to constructive service.
(3) Section 716, relating to transfers between the armed forces and to and from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(4) Section 771, relating to unauthorized wearing of uniforms.
(5) Section 774, relating to wearing religious apparel while in uniform.
(6) Section 982, relating to service on State and local juries.
(7) Section 1031, relating to administration of oaths.
(8) Section 1034, relating to protected communications and prohibition of retaliatory personnel actions.
(9) Section 1035, relating to deposits of savings.
(10) Section 1036, relating to transportation and travel allowances for escorts for dependents of members.
(11) Section 1052, relating to reimbursement for adoption expenses.
(12) Section 1074n, relating to annual mental health assessments.
(13) Section 1090a, relating to referrals for mental health evaluations.
(14) Chapter 58, relating to the benefits and services for members being separated or recently separated.
(15) Section 1174a, relating to special separation benefits (except that benefits under subsection (b)(2)(B) of such section are subject to the availability of appropriations for such purpose and are provided at the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce).
(16) Chapter 61, relating to retirement or separation for physical disability.
(17) Section 1251(e), relating to retirement or separation based on years of creditable service.
(18) Chapter 69, relating to retired g
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**(a) Provisions made applicable to the corps** The rules of law that apply to the Armed Forces under the following provisions of title 10, as those provisions are in effect from time to time, apply also to the commissioned officer corps of the Administration:
(1) Chapter 40, relating to leave.
(2) Section 533(b), relating to constructive service.
(3) Section 716, relating to transfers between the armed forces and to and from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(4) Section 771, relating to unauthorized wearing of uniforms.
(5) Section 774, relating to wearing religious apparel while in uniform.
(6) Section 982, relating to service on State and local juries.
(7) Section 1031, relating to administration of oaths.
(8) Section 1034, relating to protected communications and prohibition of retaliatory personnel actions.
(9) Section 1035, relating to deposits of savings.
(10) Section 1036, relating to transportation and travel allowances for escorts for dependents of members.
(11) Section 1052, relating to reimbursement for adoption expenses.
(12) Section 1074n, relating to annual mental health assessments.
(13) Section 1090a, relating to referrals for mental health evaluations.
(14) Chapter 58, relating to the benefits and services for members being separated or recently separated.
(15) Section 1174a, relating to special separation benefits (except that benefits under subsection (b)(2)(B) of such section are subject to the availability of appropriations for such purpose and are provided at the discretion of the Secretary of Commerce).
(16) Chapter 61, relating to retirement or separation for physical disability.
(17) Section 1251(e), relating to retirement or separation based on years of creditable service.
(18) Chapter 69, relating to retired grade, except sections 1370, 1375, and 1376.
(19) Chapter 71, relating to computation of retired pay.
(20) Chapter 73, relating to annuities based on retired or retainer pay.
(21) Subchapter II of chapter 75, relating to death benefits.
(22) Subchapter I of chapter 88, relating to military family programs, applicable on an as-available and fully reimbursable basis.
(23) Section 2005, relating to advanced education assistance, active duty agreements, and reimbursement requirements.
(24) Section 2634, relating to transportation of motor vehicles for members on permanent change of station.
(25) Sections 2731 and 2735, relating to property loss incident to service.
(26) Section 2771, relating to final settlement of accounts of deceased members.
(27) Such other provisions of subtitle A of that title as may be adopted for applicability to the commissioned officer corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by any other provision of law.
**(b) References** The authority vested by title 10 in the “military departments”, “the Secretary concerned”, or “the Secretary of Defense” with respect to the provisions of law referred to in subsection (a) shall be exercised, with respect to the commissioned officer corps of the Administration, by the Secretary of Commerce or the Secretary’s designee. For purposes of paragraph (8) of subsection (a), the term “Inspector General” in section 1034 of such title 10 shall mean the Inspector General of the Department of Commerce.
**(c) Regulations regarding protected communications and prohibition of retaliatory personnel actions** The Secretary may prescribe regulations to carry out the application of [section 1034 of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1034&num=0&edition=prelim) to the commissioned officer corps of the Administration, including by prescribing such administrative procedures for investigation and appeal within the commissioned officer corps as the Secretary considers appropriate.
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**(a) Restricting Communications With Members of Congress and Inspector General Prohibited.—**
(1) No person may restrict a member of the armed forces in communicating with a Member of Congress or an Inspector General.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to a communication that is unlawful.
**(b) Prohibition of Retaliatory Personnel Actions.—**
(1) No person may take (or threaten to take) an unfavorable personnel action, or withhold (or threaten to withhold) a favorable personnel action, as a reprisal against a member of the armed forces for making or preparing or being perceived as making or preparing—
(A) a communication to a Member of Congress or an Inspector General that (under subsection (a)) may not be restricted;
(B) a communication that is described in subsection (c)(2) and that is made (or prepared to be made) to—
(i) a Member of Congress;
(ii) an Inspector General (as defined in subsection (j)) or any other Inspector General appointed under chapter 4 of title 5;
(iii) a member of a Department of Defense audit, inspection, investigation, or law enforcement organization;
(iv) any person or organization in the chain of command;
(v) a court-martial proceeding; or
(vi) any other person or organization designated pursuant to regulations or other established administrative procedures for such communications; or
(C) testimony, or otherwise participating in or assisting in an investigation or proceeding related to a communication under subparagraph (A) or (B), or filing, causing to be filed, participating in, or otherwise assisting in an action brought under this section.
(2)
(A) The actions considered for purposes of this section to be a personnel action prohibited by this subsection shall include any action prohibited by pa
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**(a) In General.—** The following definitions apply in this title:
(1) The term “United States”, in a geographic sense, means the States and the District of Columbia.
(2) Repealed. Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title X, § 1057(a)(1), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3440.]
(3) The term “possessions” includes the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Guano Islands, so long as they remain possessions, but does not include any Commonwealth.
(4) The term “armed forces” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard.
(5) The term “uniformed services” means—
(A) the armed forces;
(B) the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and
(C) the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service.
(6) The term “department”, when used with respect to a military department, means the executive part of the department and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of the department. When used with respect to the Department of Defense, such term means the executive part of the department, including the executive parts of the military departments, and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of Defense, including those of the military departments.
(7) The term “executive part of the department” means the executive part of the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, or Department of the Air Force, as the case may be, at the seat of government.
(8) The term “military departments” means the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force.
(9) The term
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**(a)** Under joint regulations prescribed by the Secretaries concerned, a member of the armed forces who is on a permanent duty assignment outside the United States or its possessions may deposit during that tour of duty not more than his unallotted current pay and allowances in amounts of $5 or more, with any branch, office, or officer of a uniformed service. Amounts so deposited shall be deposited in the Treasury and kept as a separate fund, and shall be accounted for in the same manner as public funds.
**(b)** Interest at a rate prescribed by the President, not to exceed 10 percent a year, will accrue on amounts deposited under this section. However, the maximum amount upon which interest may be paid under this subsection to any member is $10,000, except that such limitation shall not apply to deposits made on or after September 1, 1966, in the case of those members in a missing status during the Vietnam conflict, the Persian Gulf conflict, or a contingency operation. Interest under this subsection shall terminate 90 days after the member’s return to the United States or its possessions.
**(c)** Except as provided in joint regulations prescribed by the Secretaries concerned, payments of deposits, and interest thereon, may not be made to the member while he is on duty outside the United States or its possessions.
**(d)** An amount deposited under this section, with interest thereon, is exempt from liability for the member’s debts, including any indebtedness to the United States or any instrumentality thereof, and is not subject to forfeiture by sentence of a court-martial.
**(e)** The Secretary concerned, or his designee, may in the interest of a member who is in a missing status or his dependents, initiate, stop, modify, and change allotments, and authorize a wi
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**(a) Retirement.—** Upon a determination by the Secretary concerned that a member described in subsection (c) is unfit to perform the duties of the member’s office, grade, rank, or rating because of physical disability incurred while entitled to basic pay or while absent as described in subsection (c)(3), the Secretary may retire the member, with retired pay computed under [section 1401 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1401&num=0&edition=prelim), if the Secretary also makes the determinations with respect to the member and that disability specified in subsection (b).
**(b) Required Determinations of Disability.—** Determinations referred to in subsection (a) are determinations by the Secretary that—
(1) based upon accepted medical principles, the disability is of a permanent nature and stable;
(2) the disability is not the result of the member’s intentional misconduct or willful neglect, and was not incurred during a period of unauthorized absence; and
(3) either—
(A) the member has at least 20 years of service computed under [section 1208 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1208&num=0&edition=prelim); or
(B) the disability is at least 30 percent under the standard schedule of rating disabilities in use by the Department of Veterans Affairs at the time of the determination; and either—
(i) the disability was not noted at the time of the member’s entrance on active duty (unless clear and unmistakable evidence demonstrates that the disability existed before the member’s entrance on active duty and was not aggravated by active military service);
(ii) the disability is the proximate result of performing active duty;
(iii) the disability
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Unless entitled to a higher retired grade under some other provision of law, a warrant officer shall be retired in the highest regular or reserve warrant officer grade in which the warrant officer served satisfactorily, as determined by the Secretary concerned.
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**(a) Disability, Non-Regular Service, Warrant Officer, and DOPMA Retirement.—** The monthly retired pay of a person entitled thereto under this subtitle is computed according to the following table. For each case covered by a section of this title named in the column headed “For sections”, retired pay is computed by taking, in order, the steps prescribed opposite it in columns 1, 2, and 3, as modified by the applicable footnotes. Formula No.For sectionsColumn 1 TakeColumn 2 Multiply byColumn 3 Add 1 Before applying percentage factor, credit each full month of service that is in addition to the number of full years of service creditable to the member as one-twelfth of a year and disregard any remaining fractional part of a month. 112011204Retired pay base as computed under section 1406(b) or 1407.As member elects— (1) the retired pay multiplier determined for the member under [section 1409 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1409&num=0&edition=prelim); 1 or (2) the percentage of disability, not to exceed 75%, on date when retired. 212021205Retired pay base as computed under section 1406(b) or 1407.As member elects— (1) the retired pay multiplier determined for the member under [section 1409 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1409&num=0&edition=prelim); 1 or (2) the percentage of disability, not to exceed 75%, on date when his name was placed on temporary disability retired list.Amount necessary to increase product of columns 1 and 2 to 50% of retired pay base upon which computation is based. 4580126312931305Retired pay base as computed under section 1406(b) or 1407.The retired pay multiplier prescribed in section 1409 for the years of service credited to him un
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**(a)** This section applies to all members of the armed forces except—
(1) members whose names are on a retired list other than a list maintained under [section 12774(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section12774/a&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) cadets at the United States Military Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, or the Coast Guard Academy; and
(3) midshipmen.
**(b)** To provide an annuity under [section 1434 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1434&num=0&edition=prelim), a person covered by subsection (a) may elect to receive a reduced amount of the retired pay or retainer pay to which he may become entitled as a result of service in his armed force. Except as otherwise provided in this section, unless it is made before he completes nineteen years of service for which he is entitled to credit in the computation of his basic pay, the election must be made at least two years before the first day for which retired pay or retainer pay is granted. However, if, because of military operations, a member is assigned to an isolated station or is missing, interned in a neutral country, captured by a hostile force, or beleaguered or besieged, and for that reason is unable to make an election before completing nineteen years of that service, he may make the election, to become effective immediately, within one year after he ceases to be assigned to that station or returns to the jurisdiction of his armed force, as the case may be. A member to whom retired pay or retainer pay is granted retroactively, and who is otherwise eligible to make an election, may make the election within ninety days after receiving notice that such pay has been granted to him. An elect
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**(a)** Except as provided in [section 1480 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1480&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary concerned shall have a death gratuity paid to or for the survivor prescribed by [section 1477 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1477&num=0&edition=prelim), immediately upon receiving official notification of the death of—
(1) a member of an armed force under his jurisdiction who dies while on active duty or while performing authorized travel to or from active duty;
(2) a Reserve of an armed force who dies while on inactive duty training (other than work or study in connection with a correspondence course of an armed force or attendance, in an inactive status, at an educational institution under the sponsorship of an armed force or the Public Health Service);
(3) any Reserve of an armed force who, when authorized or required by an authority designated by the Secretary, assumed an obligation to perform active duty for training, or inactive duty training (other than work or study in connection with a correspondence course of an armed force or attendance, in an inactive status, at an educational institution, under the sponsorship of an armed force or the Public Health Service), and who dies while traveling directly to or from that active duty for training or inactive duty training or while staying at the Reserve’s residence, when so authorized by proper authority, during the period of such inactive duty training or between successive days of inactive duty training;
(4) any member of a reserve officers’ training corps who dies while performing annual training duty under orders, or while performing authorized travel to or from that annual tra
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In this chapter, “settle” means consider, ascertain, adjust, determine, and dispose of a claim, whether by full or partial allowance or by disallowance.
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**(a)** A member of an armed force is entitled to leave at the rate of 2½ calendar days for each month of active service, excluding periods of—
(1) absence from duty without leave;
(2) absence over leave;
(3) confinement as the result of a sentence of a court-martial; and
(4) leave required to be taken under [section 876a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section876a&num=0&edition=prelim).
Full-time training, or other full-time duty for a period of more than 29 days, performed under section 316, 502, 503, 504, or 505 of title 32 by a member of the Army National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States in his status as a member of the National Guard, and for which he is entitled to pay, is active service for the purposes of this section.
**(b)** Except as provided in subsections (e) and (f), a member may not accumulate more than 60 days’ leave. However, leave taken during a fiscal year may be charged to leave accumulated during that fiscal year without regard to this limitation.
**(c)** A member who retired after August 9, 1946, who is continued on, or is recalled to active duty, may have his leave which accumulated during his service before retirement carried over to his period of service after retirement.
**(d)** Leave taken before discharge is considered to be active service.
**(e)**
(1) The Secretary concerned, under uniform regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, may authorize a member described in paragraph (2) to retain not more than 30 days of excess leave.
(2) A member described in this paragraph is a member who—
(A)
(i) serves on active duty for a continuous period of at least 120 days for which the member is entitled to special pay under [sect
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