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[CITE: 10USC574]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
  CHAPTER 33A--APPOINTMENT, PROMOTION, AND INVOLUNTARY SEPARATION AND 
     RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS ON THE WARRANT OFFICER ACTIVE-DUTY LIST
 
Sec. 574. Warrant officer active-duty lists; competitive 
        categories; number to be recommended for promotion; promotion 
        zones
        
    (a) The Secretary concerned shall maintain for each armed force 
under the jurisdiction of that Secretary a single list of all warrant 
officers (other than warrant officers described in section 582 of this 
title) who are on active duty.
    (b) The Secretary concerned may establish competitive categories for 
promotion. Warrant officers in the same competitive category shall 
compete among themselves for promotion.
    (c) Before convening a selection board under section 573 of this 
title, the Secretary concerned shall determine for each grade (or grade 
and competitive category) to be considered by the board the following:
        (1) The maximum number of warrant officers to be recommended for 
    promotion.
        (2) A promotion zone for warrant officers on the warrant officer 
    active-duty list.

    (d) The position of a warrant officer on the warrant officer active-
duty list shall be determined as follows:
        (1) Warrant officers shall be carried in the order of seniority 
    of the grade in which they are serving on active duty.
        (2) Warrant officers serving in the same grade shall be carried 
    in the order of their rank in that grade.
        (3) A warrant officer on the warrant officer active-duty list 
    who receives a temporary appointment or a temporary assignment in a 
    grade other than a warrant officer grade or chief warrant officer 
    grade shall retain his position on the warrant officer active-duty 
    list while so serving.

    (e) A chief warrant officer may not be considered for promotion to 
the next higher grade under this chapter until the officer has completed 
two years of service on active duty in the grade in which the officer is 
serving.

(Added Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title XI, Sec. 1112(a), Dec. 5, 1991, 
105 Stat. 1494; amended Pub. L. 102-484, div. A, title X, Sec. 1052(3), 
Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2499; Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title V, 
Sec. 541(b)(2), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2764; Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, 
title V, Sec. 506(a), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2512.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104-201 substituted ``two years of 
service'' for ``three years of service''.
    1994--Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 103-337 substituted ``Secretary 
concerned'' for ``Secretary of each military department''.
    1992--Subsec. (d)(3). Pub. L. 102-484 substituted ``active-duty 
list'' for ``active duty list'' before ``while''.


                    Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 103-337 effective on the first day of the 
fourth month beginning after Oct. 5, 1994, see section 541(h) of Pub. L. 
103-337, set out as a note under section 571 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 573, 575, 576 of this title.
