---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2155"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2155"
heading: "Retirement for physical disability after selection for promotion; grade in which retired"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2155"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 21 — Personnel; Officers"
  - "Subchapter II — Discharges; Retirements; Revocation of Commissions; Separation for Cause"
---

# §2155. Retirement for physical disability after selection for promotion; grade in which retired


An officer whose name appears on an approved list of officers selected for promotion to the next higher grade and who is retired for physical disability under the provisions of [chapter 61](/usc/10/chstA/ptII/ch61.md) of title 10 prior to being promoted shall be retired in the grade to which he was selected for promotion.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 88–130, § 1(10)(C), Sept. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 187, § 294; renumbered § 2155, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 112(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4216.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 294 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Retired Pay on or Prior to September 24, 1963

Savings provisions in section 5(g) of Pub. L. 88–130 providing that Pub. L. 88–130 does not affect the retired pay of anyone retired on or prior to Sept. 24, 1963, are set out as a note under section 2101 of this title.