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[CITE: 10USC578]

 
                         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. 578. Promotions: how made; effective date

    (a) When the report of a selection board convened under this chapter 
is approved by the Secretary concerned, the Secretary shall place the 
names of the warrant officers approved for promotion on a single 
promotion list for each grade (or grade and competitive category), in 
the order of the seniority of such officers on the warrant officer 
active-duty list.
    (b) Promotions of warrant officers on the warrant officer promotion 
list shall be made when, in accordance with regulations issued by the 
Secretary concerned, additional warrant officers in that grade (or grade 
and competitive category), are needed.
    (c) A regular warrant officer who is promoted is appointed in the 
regular grade to which promoted, and a reserve warrant officer who is 
promoted is appointed in the reserve grade to which promoted. The date 
of appointment in that grade and date of rank shall be prescribed by the 
Secretary concerned. A warrant officer is entitled to the pay and 
allowances for the grade to which appointed from the date specified in 
the appointment order.
    (d) Promotions shall be made in the order in which the names of 
warrant officers appear on the promotion list and after warrant officers 
previously selected for promotion in the applicable grade (or grade and 
competitive category) have been promoted.
    (e) A warrant officer who is appointed to a higher grade under this 
section is considered to have accepted such appointment on the date on 
which the appointment is made unless the officer expressly declines the 
appointment.
    (f) A warrant officer who has served continuously as an officer 
since subscribing to the oath of office prescribed in section 3331 of 
title 5 is not required to take a new oath upon appointment to a higher 
grade under this section.

(Added Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title XI, Sec. 1112(a), Dec. 5, 1991, 
105 Stat. 1497; amended Pub. L. 102-484, div. A, title X, Sec. 1052(4), 
Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2499; Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title V, 
Sec. 501(c), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2748.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsecs. (e), (f). Pub. L. 103-337 added subsecs. (e) and (f).
    1992--Pub. L. 102-484 substituted ``Promotions:'' for 
``Promotions;'' in section catchline.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 628 of this title.
