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[CITE: 10USC5001]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                          PART I--ORGANIZATION
 
                        CHAPTER 501--DEFINITIONS
 
Sec. 5001. Definitions

    (a) In this subtitle:
        (1) The term ``Navy'' means the United States Navy. It includes 
    the Regular Navy, the Fleet Reserve, and the Naval Reserve.
        (2) The term ``Marine Corps'' means the United States Marine 
    Corps. It includes the Regular Marine Corps, the Fleet Marine Corps 
    Reserve, and the Marine Corps Reserve.
        (3) The term ``member of the naval service'' means a person 
    appointed or enlisted in, or inducted or conscripted into, the Navy 
    or the Marine Corps.
        (4) The term ``enlisted member'' means a member of the naval 
    service serving in an enlisted grade or rating. It excludes, unless 
    otherwise specified, a member who holds a permanent enlisted grade 
    and a temporary appointment in a commissioned or warrant officer 
    grade.
        (5) The term ``officer'' means a member of the naval service 
    serving in a commissioned or warrant officer grade. It includes, 
    unless otherwise specified, a member who holds a permanent enlisted 
    grade and a temporary appointment in a commissioned or warrant 
    officer grade.
        (6) The term ``commissioned officer'' means a member of the 
    naval service serving in a grade above warrant officer, W-1. It 
    includes, unless otherwise specified, a member who holds a permanent 
    enlisted grade or the permanent grade of warrant officer, W-1, and a 
    temporary appointment in a grade above warrant officer, W-1.
        (7) The term ``warrant officer'' means a member of the naval 
    service serving in a warrant officer grade. It includes, unless 
    otherwise specified, a member who holds a permanent enlisted grade 
    and a temporary appointment in a warrant officer grade.
        (8) The term ``officer restricted in the performance of duty'' 
    means an officer of the Navy designated for engineering duty, 
    aeronautical engineering duty, special duty, or limited duty, or an 
    officer of the Marine Corps designated for limited duty.

    (b) For the purposes of this subtitle, a member of the naval service 
who holds a temporary appointment in a grade higher than his permanent 
grade is considered, unless otherwise specified, to be serving in the 
higher grade.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 276; Pub. L. 87-123, Sec. 5(1), Aug. 
3, 1961, 75 Stat. 264; Pub. L. 96-513, title III, Sec. 371, title V, 
Sec. 513(2), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2903, 2931; Pub. L. 100-26, 
Sec. 7(k)(2), Apr. 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 284.)


                               Amendments

    1987--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100-26 inserted ``The term'' after each 
par. designation and struck out uppercase letter of first word after 
first quotation marks in pars. (3) to (8) and substituted lowercase 
letter.
    1980--Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 96-513, Sec. 513(2), struck out ``, 
male or female,'' after ``person''.
    Subsec. (a)(9), (10). Pub. L. 96-513, Sec. 371, struck out pars. (9) 
and (10) which defined the active lists of the Navy and the Marine 
Corps, respectively. See section 101 of this title.
    1961--Subsec. (a)(8). Pub. L. 87-123 struck out provisions which 
related to Marine Corps officers designated for supply duty.


                    Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

    Amendment by section 371 of Pub. L. 96-513 effective Sept. 15, 1981, 
but the authority to prescribe regulations under the amendment by Pub. 
L. 96-513 effective on Dec. 12, 1980, see section 701 of Pub. L. 96-513, 
set out as a note under section 101 of this title.
    Amendment by section 513(2) of Pub. L. 96-513 effective Dec. 12, 
1980, see section 701(b)(3) of Pub. L. 96-513.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 5143, 5144 of this title.
