---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 12740"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "12740"
heading: "Eligibility: denial upon certain punitive discharges or dismissals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/12740"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part II — Personnel Generally"
  - "Chapter 1223 — Retired Pay for Non-Regular Service"
---

# §12740. Eligibility: denial upon certain punitive discharges or dismissals


A person who—

- (1) is convicted of an offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice ([chapter 47](/usc/10/chstA/ptII/ch47.md) of this title) and whose sentence [includes](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-4) death; or
- (2) is separated pursuant to sentence of a court-martial with a dishonorable discharge, a bad conduct discharge, or (in the case of an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1)) a dismissal,

is not eligible for retired [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) under this chapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title VI, § 632(a)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 365.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title VI, § 632(b), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 365, provided that: “Section 12740 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall apply with respect to court-martial sentences adjudged after the date of the enactment of this Act [Feb. 10, 1996].”