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[CITE: 10USC5952]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                    CHAPTER 551--OFFICERS IN COMMAND
 
Sec. 5952. Marine Corps organizations on vessels: authority of 
        officers
        
    When an organization of the Marine Corps is embarked in any vessel, 
not as part of the authorized complement of the vessel, the authority of 
the officers of that organization is the same as though the organization 
were serving at a naval station. However, this section does not impair 
the paramount authority of the commanding officer of a vessel over the 
vessel and all persons embarked in it.

(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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5952..................................  34 U.S.C. 623c.                      Ma
y 5, 1950, ch. 169, Sec.  7(b),
                                                                              6
4 Stat. 145.
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    The words ``organization of the Marine Corps'' are substituted for 
``force of marines'' for clarity. The words ``or vessels'', ``and 
powers'', ``on shore'', and ``under his command'' are omitted as 
surplusage.
