---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8584"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8584"
heading: "Age of retirement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8584"
units:
  - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps"
  - "Part III — Education and Training"
  - "Chapter 857 — Retirement of Civilian Members of the Teaching Staffs of the United States Naval Academy and United States Naval Postgraduate School"
---

# §8584. Age of retirement


A [civilian member](/usc/10/8581.md?p=a) may be retired at any time after his sixty-fifth birthday, and shall be retired by June 30 following that birthday. However, in any special case the [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) of the [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) may defer the retirement of a member until a date not later than the member’s seventieth birthday.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 439, § 7084; renumbered § 8584, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(c)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 7084 | 34 U.S.C. 1073b. | Jan. 16, 1936, ch. 3, § 3, 49 Stat. 1092. |

The words “individual and” are omitted as surplusage.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7084 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.