---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3936"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3936"
heading: "Statute of limitations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3936"
units:
  - "Chapter 50 — Servicemembers Civil Relief"
  - "Subchapter II — General Relief"
---

# §3936. Statute of limitations

- (a) **Tolling of statutes of limitation during military service—** The period of a [servicemember](/usc/50/3911.md?p=1)’s [military service](/usc/50/3911.md?p=2) may not be included in computing any period limited by law, regulation, or order for the bringing of any action or proceeding in a [court](/usc/50/3911.md?p=5), or in any board, bureau, commission, department, or other agency of a [State](/usc/50/3911.md?p=6) (or political subdivision of a [State](/usc/50/3911.md?p=6)) or the United States by or against the [servicemember](/usc/50/3911.md?p=1) or the [servicemember](/usc/50/3911.md?p=1)’s heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns.
- (b) **Redemption of real property—** A [period of military service](/usc/50/3911.md?p=3) may not be included in computing any period provided by law for the redemption of real property sold or forfeited to enforce an obligation, tax, or assessment.
- (c) **Inapplicability to internal revenue laws—** This section does not apply to any period of limitation prescribed by or under the internal revenue laws of the United States.

## Source credit

(Oct. 17, 1940, ch. 888, title II, § 206, as added Pub. L. 108–189, § 1, Dec. 19, 2003, 117 Stat. 2844.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 526 of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 206 of act Oct. 17, 1940, ch. 888, art. II, as added Oct. 6, 1942, ch. 581, § 6, 56 Stat. 771; amended Pub. L. 102–12, § 9(7), Mar. 18, 1991, 105 Stat. 39, related to maximum rate of interest, prior to the general amendment of this Act by Pub. L. 108–189. See section 3937 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable to any case not final before Dec. 19, 2003, see section 3 of Pub. L. 108–189, set out as a note under section 3901 of this title.