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[CITE: 10USC5944]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                    CHAPTER 551--OFFICERS IN COMMAND
 
Sec. 5944. Marine Corps officers: limitation on power to command

    Officers of the Marine Corps may not command vessels or naval 
shipyards.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 371.)

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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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5944..................................  34 U.S.C. 713.                       R.
S. 1617.
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    The words ``of the United States'' are omitted as surplusage. The 
word ``command'' is substituted for the words ``exercise command over 
any''.
