[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 33USC854a-2]
TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
CHAPTER 17--NATIONAL OCEAN SURVEY
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 854a-2. Pay and allowances; date of acceptance of promotion
Any commissioned officer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration promoted to a higher grade at any time after December 7,
1941, shall be deemed for all purposes to have accepted his promotion to
higher grade upon the date such promotion is made by the President
unless he shall expressly decline such promotion, and shall receive the
pay and allowances of the higher grade from such date unless he is
entitled under some other provision of law to receive the pay and
allowances of the higher grade from an earlier date. No such officer who
shall have subscribed to the oath of office required by section 3331 of
title 5, shall be required to renew such oath or to take a new oath upon
his promotion to a higher grade, if his service after the taking of such
an oath shall have been continuous.
(Dec. 3, 1942, ch. 670, Sec. 3, 56 Stat. 1039; 1965 Reorg. Plan No. 2,
eff. July 13, 1965, 30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4,
eff. Oct. 3, 1970, 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)
Codification
``Section 3331 of title 5'' substituted in text for ``section 1757,
Revised Statutes'' on authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6,
1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5,
Government Organization and Employees. Section 1757 of the Revised
Statutes had been classified to section 16 of former Title 5, Executive
Departments and Government Officers and Employees.
Provisions similar to this section are contained in section 3031 of
this title.
Transfer of Functions
Coast and Geodetic Survey consolidated with Weather Bureau to form a
new agency in Department of Commerce to be known as Environmental
Science Services Administration, and commissioned officers of Survey
transferred to ESSA, by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1965, eff. July 13, 1965,
30 F.R. 8819, 79 Stat. 1318, set out as a note under section 851 of this
title.
