PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 512-AUG. 7, 1947
TITLE I-PERMANENT PROVISIONS RELATING TO OFFI-
CERS OF THE LINE OF THE NAVY
PERMANENT STATUS OF TITLE I
SEC. 101. The provisions of this title shall constitute permanent, as
distinguished from terminable, provisions of law relating to the
distribution of commissioned officers in the various grades of the line
of the Regular Navy, to the promotion of such officers to the grades
above that of lieutenant (junior grade), and to their involuntary
separation from the active list.
DEFINITIONS
"Offiers."
SEC. 102. (a) As used in this title, the word "officers" shall be held
to mean commissioned officers holding permanent appointments as such
on the active list in the line of the Regular Navy. Unless otherwise
qualified, it shall be held to include officers designated for engineering
duty, aeronautical engineering duty, special duty, and limited duty,
and to exclude commissioned warrant officers.
Military titles.
(b) As used in this title, military titles shall be held to describe an
officer or officers, as the case may be, holding permanent appointment
on the active list in the line of the Regular Navy in the grade
concerned.
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(c) As used in this title, the words "not restricted in the perform-
duty."
ance of duty" shall be held to describe officers not designated for
engineering duty, aeronautical engineering duty, special duty, or lim-
ited duty, or officers of the Marine Corps not designated for supply
duty or limited duty.
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(d) For the purposes of this title in respect to eligibility for
continuation on the active list and in respect to separation from the
active list, the total commissioned service of an officer who shall have
served continuously in the Regular Navy following appointment
therein in the grade or rank of ensign upon graduation from the
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Naval Academy or pursuant to the Act of August 13, 1946 (Public
i eeq.
Law 729, Seventy-ninth Congress), shall be computed from June 30
At, P 80. 0' 10o; of the fiscal year in which he accepted such appointment. Each other
officer shall be deemed to have for these purposes as much total com-
missioned service as any officer described above in this subsection who
shall not have lost numbers or precedence and who is, or shall have
been, junior to such other officer for the purpose of eligibility for
promotion or selection for promotion since the date of the latter's
first appointment to permanent commissioned rank in the Regular
Navy above the grade of commissioned warrant officer, following
which he shall have served continuously on the active list of the
Regular Navy.
Actve-duty pay.
(e) The words "active-duty pay" as used in sections 112 and 113
of this title shall be construed to mean the base and longevity pay
the retired officer concerned would receive if serving on active duty in
his grade.
DISTRIBUTION OF OFFICERS
SEC. 103. (a) The total number of officers on the active list at any
one time, exclusive of officers carried by law as additional numbers in
grade and of fleet admirals, shall be distributed in the proportion of
seventy-five one-hundredths of one in the grade of rear admiral, to
six in the grade of captain, to twelve in the grade of commander, to
eighteen in the grade of lieutenant commander, to twenty-four and
seventy-five one-hundredths in the grade of lieutenant, to thirty-eight
and fifty one-hundredths in the combined grades of lieutenant (junior
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