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[CITE: 10USC5131]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                          PART I--ORGANIZATION
 
       CHAPTER 513--BUREAUS; OFFICE OF THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL
 
Sec. 5131. Bureaus: names; location

    There are in the executive part of the Department of the Navy the 
following bureaus:
    (1) Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
    (2) Bureau of Naval Personnel.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 285; Pub. L. 86-174, Secs. 1(1), 
2(1), Aug. 18, 1959, 73 Stat. 395; Pub. L. 89-718, Sec. 35(1), Nov. 2, 
1966, 80 Stat. 1120.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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5131..................................  5 U.S.C. 429 (less applicability to  R.
S. 419 (less applicability to
                                         distribution of business among       d
istribution of business among
                                         bureaus).                            b
ureaus); July 19, 1892, ch. 206,
                                                                              2
7 Stat. 243 (6th par.); June 30,
                                                                              1
914, ch. 130, 38 Stat. 408 (4th
                                                                              p
ar.); July 12, 1921, ch. 44, Sec.
                                                                               
8 (1st 17 words of 1st par.), 42
                                                                              S
tat. 140; June 20, 1940, ch. 400,
                                                                              S
ec.  1(a), (b), 54 Stat. 492; May
                                                                              1
3, 1942, ch. 303, Sec.  1, 56
                                                                              S
tat. 276.
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    The bureaus are listed alphabetically for convenience. This listing 
has no effect on the precedence of the bureaus.


                               Amendments

    1966--Pub. L. 89-718 struck out cls. (3) to (6) which related to the 
Bureau of Naval Weapons, the Bureau of Ships, the Bureau of Supplies and 
Accounts, and the Bureau of Yards and Docks, respectively.
    1959--Pub. L. 86-174 inserted reference to Bureau of Naval Weapons 
and struck out reference to Bureau of Aeronautics and Bureau of 
Ordnance.


                    Effective Date of 1959 Amendment

    Section 2 of Pub. L. 86-174 provided that the amendment of this 
section and section 5133 of this title and the repeal of sections 5136 
and 5144 of this title shall be effective on July 1, 1960, or on any 
earlier date on which the Secretary of the Navy makes a formal finding 
that all the functions of the Bureau of Aeronautics and the Bureau of 
Ordnance have been transferred to the Bureau of Naval Weapons or 
elsewhere.


               Bureau of Naval Weapons; Transfer of Funds

    Section 3 of Pub. L. 86-174 provided that: ``The unexpended balances 
of appropriations and funds available for use in connection with the 
exercise of any function transferred to the Bureau of Naval Weapons 
shall be transferred in the manner provided by section 407 of the 
National Security Act of 1947, as amended (5 U.S.C. 172f) [10 U.S.C. 
126], for use in connection with the transferred functions.''
