Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)

Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legal/us/code/title-14/chapter-23/section-2304.md

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+---
+type: "LegalText"
+title: "14 U.S.C. § 2304"
+description: "Compulsory retirement at age of sixty-two"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 14
+title_name: "COAST GUARD"
+chapter_number: "23"
+chapter_name: "PERSONNEL; ENLISTED"
+section: "2304"
+citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2304"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc14@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t14/s2304"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-14/usc14.xml"
+source_hash: "b250e46ece4a4334408cea880d8fbc3153652e381d791c62462fe1f08a6fb651"
+raw_snapshot_hash: "0a287809467d795ac0e1a72d6743ea6b1d340c0f74c77c67bfeba10724006304"
+text_hash: "14f45cc79e01106558bb5bc28eefea3c93bbf4f3206db44ae8c55271498768c0"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 14 U.S.C. § 2304 - Compulsory retirement at age of sixty-two
+
+## Text
+
+Any enlisted member who has reached the age of sixty-two shall be retired from active service.
+
+(Aug. 4, 1949, ch. 393, 63 Stat. 520, § 353; Pub. L. 98–557, § 15(a)(3)(A), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2865; Pub. L. 99–348, title II, § 205(b)(8), July 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 700; renumbered § 2304, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 113(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4221.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Historical and Revision NotesBased on title 14, U.S.C., 1946 ed., § 173 (Apr. 12, 1902, ch. 501, § 4, 32 Stat. 100). Section 173 of title 14, U.S.C., 1946 ed., has been divided. That part dealing with enlisted men is placed in this section. That part dealing with commissioned officers is placed in section 230 of this title. That part dealing with warrant officers is placed in section 303 of this title. The compulsory retirement age is changed from 64 to 62 in order to make it the same for enlisted men as for officers. 81st Congress, House Report No. 557.
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+Amendments2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 353 of this title as this section. 1986—Pub. L. 99–348 struck out “, with retired pay of the grade or rating with which retired” after “active service”. 1984—Pub. L. 98–557 substituted reference to enlisted member for reference to enlisted man.