{"identifier":"/us/usc/t10/s12313","title":10,"num":"\u00a7\u202f12313.","heading":"Reserves: release from active duty","text":"\u00a7\u202f12313.\nReserves: release from active duty\n(a) Except as otherwise provided in this title, the Secretary concerned may at any time release a Reserve under his jurisdiction from active duty.\n(b) In time of war or of national emergency declared by Congress or the President after\n(1) a board of officers convened at his request by an authority designated by the Secretary concerned recommends the release and the recommendation is approved;\n(2) the member does not request that a board be convened; or\n(3) his release is otherwise authorized by law.\nThis subsection does not apply to an armed force during a period of demobilization or reduction in strength of that armed force.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t10/s12313.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s12313","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f12313."},{"t":"heading","text":"Reserves: release from active duty"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s12313/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"content","text":" Except as otherwise provided in this title, the Secretary concerned may at any time release a Reserve under his jurisdiction from active duty.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s12313/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" In time of war or of national emergency declared by Congress or the President after ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"January 1, 1953","tail":", a member of a reserve component may be released from active duty (other than for training) only if\u2014"}]},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s12313/b/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" a board of officers convened at his request by an authority designated by the Secretary concerned recommends the release and the recommendation is approved;","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s12313/b/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" the member does not request that a board be convened; or","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s12313/b/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"content","text":" his release is otherwise authorized by law.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n\n"},{"t":"continuation","text":"This subsection does not apply to an armed force during a period of demobilization or reduction in strength of that armed force.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}