---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 3734"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "3734"
heading: "Effect of this subchapter on retirement and retired pay"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/3734"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Coast Guard Reserve and Auxiliary"
  - "Chapter 37 — Coast Guard Reserve"
  - "Subchapter II — Personnel"
---

# §3734. Effect of this subchapter on retirement and retired pay


Except as provided in subsection 3757(b)[^1] of this title, nothing in this subchapter authorizes the retirement of a [Reserve officer](/usc/14/3731.md?p=1) or the payment of retired, retainer, or severance pay to a [Reserve officer](/usc/14/3731.md?p=1); or affects in any manner the law relating to the retirement of, or the granting of retired or retainer pay or other benefits to a [Reserve officer](/usc/14/3731.md?p=1).


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “section 3757(b)”.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–322, § 1, Aug. 4, 1980, 94 Stat. 1007, § 723; renumbered § 3734 and amended Pub. L. 115–282, title I, §§ 118(b), 123(b)(2), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4233, 4240.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 795 of this title prior to the complete revision of former chapter 21 of this title by Pub. L. 96–322.

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282, § 123(b)(2), substituted “subsection 3757(b)” for “subsection 746(b)”.

Pub. L. 115–282, § 118(b), renumbered section 723 of this title as this section.