---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 6326"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "6326"
heading: "Absence in connection with funerals of immediate relatives in the Armed Forces"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/6326"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart E — Attendance and Leave"
  - "Chapter 63 — Leave"
  - "Subchapter II — Other Paid Leave"
---

# §6326. Absence in connection with funerals of immediate relatives in the Armed Forces

- (a) An [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) of an [executive agency](/usc/5/6501.md?p=2) or an individual employed by the [government](/usc/5/4101.md?p=3) of the District of Columbia is entitled to not more than three days of leave without [loss](/usc/5/8401.md?p=18) of, or reduction in, [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4), leave to which he is otherwise entitled, credit for time or [service](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26), or performance or efficiency rating, to make arrangements for, or attend the funeral of, or memorial [service](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26) for, an immediate relative who died as a result of wounds, disease, or injury incurred while serving as a [member](/usc/5/8401.md?p=20) of the Armed Forces in a combat zone (as determined by the President in accordance with section 112 of the Internal Revenue Code).
- (b) The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management is authorized to issue regulations for the [administration](/usc/5/9801.md?p=1) of this section.
- (c) This section shall not be considered as affecting the [authority](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-6) of an [Executive agency](/usc/5/6501.md?p=2), except to the extent and under the conditions covered under this section, to grant administrative leave excusing an [employee](/usc/5/6301.md?p=2) from work when it is in the public interest.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 90–588, § 1(a), Oct. 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 1151; amended Pub. L. 95–454, title IX, § 906(a)(2), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1224.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 112 of the Internal Revenue Code, referred to in subsec. (a), is classified to section 112 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code.

### Amendments

1978—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95–454 substituted “Office of Personnel Management” for “Civil Service Commission”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 95–454 effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.