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[CITE: 10USC583]

 
                         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. 583. Definitions

    In this chapter:
        (1) The term ``promotion zone'' means a promotion eligibility 
    category consisting of officers on a warrant officer active-duty 
    list in the same grade (or the same grade and competitive category) 
    who--
            (A) in the case of grades below chief warrant officer, W-5, 
        have neither (i) failed of selection for promotion to the next 
        higher grade, nor (ii) been removed from a list of warrant 
        officers recommended for promotion to that grade (other than 
        after having been placed on that list after a selection from 
        below the promotion zone); and
            (B) are senior to the warrant officer designated by the 
        Secretary concerned to be the junior warrant officer in the 
        promotion zone eligible for promotion to the next higher grade.

        (2) The term ``warrant officers above the promotion zone'' means 
    a group of officers on a warrant officer active-duty list in the 
    same grade (or the same grade and competitive category) who--
            (A) are eligible for consideration for promotion to the next 
        higher grade;
            (B) are in the same grade as warrant officers in the 
        promotion zone; and
            (C) are senior to the senior warrant officer in the 
        promotion zone.

        (3) The term ``warrant officers below the promotion zone'' means 
    a group of officers on a warrant officer active-duty list in the 
    same grade (or the same grade and competitive category) who--
            (A) are eligible for consideration for promotion to the next 
        higher grade;
            (B) are in the same grade as warrant officers in the 
        promotion zone; and
            (C) are junior to the junior warrant officer in the 
        promotion zone.

        (4) The active-duty list referred to in section 573(b) of this 
    title includes the active-duty promotion list established by section 
    41a of title 14.

(Added Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title XI, Sec. 1112(a), Dec. 5, 1991, 
105 Stat. 1501; amended Pub. L. 103-337, div. A, title V, 
Sec. 541(f)(7), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2767.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Par. (4). Pub. L. 103-337 added par. (4).


                    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.
