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[CITE: 10USC5946]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                    CHAPTER 551--OFFICERS IN COMMAND
 
Sec. 5946. Precedence accorded commanding officers

    The commanding officer of a vessel or of a naval station takes 
precedence over all officers under his command.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 372.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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5946..................................  34 U.S.C. 246.                       R.
S. 1468.
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    The word ``placed'' is omitted as surplusage. The words ``of war'' 
are omitted to avoid an erroneous implication that the section does not 
apply to the commanding officers of noncombatant ships of the Navy. As 
of the date of enactment of R.S. 1468, all vessels of the Navy were 
``vessels of war''; the elimination of the words, therefore, preserves 
the purpose of the statute.
