---
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"
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/5/5361.md?p=1) of an [executive agency](/usc/5/3330d.md?p=a-2-A) or an individual employed by the government of the District of Columbia is entitled to not more than three days of leave without loss of, or reduction in, pay, leave to which he is otherwise entitled, credit for time or [service](/usc/5/8331.md?p=12), or performance or efficiency rating, to make arrangements for, or attend the funeral of, or memorial [service](/usc/5/8331.md?p=12) for, an immediate relative who died as a result of wounds, disease, or injury incurred while serving as a [member](/usc/5/5531.md?p=1) of the [Armed Forces](/usc/5/2101.md?p=2) in a combat zone (as determined by the President in accordance with section 112 of the Internal Revenue Code).
- (b) The Office of Personnel Management is authorized to issue regulations for the administration 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/5/3330d.md?p=a-2-A), except to the extent and under the conditions covered under this section, to grant administrative leave excusing an [employee](/usc/5/5361.md?p=1) 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.