---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8588"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8588"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8588"
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"
---

# §8588. Regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) of the [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) shall prescribe regulations for the administration of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 441, § 7088; renumbered § 8588, 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) |
| 7088 | 34 U.S.C. 1073e. | Jan. 16, 1936, ch. 3, § 6, 49 Stat. 1093. |

The appropriations authorization in the second sentence of the source is omitted as unnecessary.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7088 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.