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                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
    CHAPTER 36--PROMOTION, SEPARATION, AND INVOLUNTARY RETIREMENT OF 
                    OFFICERS ON THE ACTIVE-DUTY LIST
 
 SUBCHAPTER III--FAILURE OF SELECTION FOR PROMOTION AND RETIREMENT FOR 
                            YEARS OF SERVICE
 
Sec. 627. Failure of selection for promotion

    An officer in a grade below the grade of colonel or, in the case of 
an officer of the Navy, captain who is in or above the promotion zone 
established for his grade and competitive category under section 623 of 
this title and is considered but not selected for promotion by a 
selection board convened under section 611(a) of this title shall be 
considered to have failed of selection for promotion.

(Added Pub. L. 96-513, title I, Sec. 105, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2859.)


                             Effective Date

    Subchapter effective Sept. 15, 1981, but the authority to prescribe 
regulations under this subchapter effective on Dec. 12, 1980, see 
section 701 of Pub. L. 96-513, set out as an Effective Date of 1980 
Amendment note under section 101 of this title.


  Transition Provisions Under Defense Officer Personnel Management Act

    For provisions to prevent extinction or premature termination of 
rights, duties, penalties, or proceedings that existed or were begun 
prior to the effective date of Pub. L. 96-513 and otherwise to allow for 
an orderly transition to the system of officer personnel management put 
in place under Pub. L. 96-513, see section 601 et seq. of Pub. L. 96-
513, set out as a note under section 611 of this title.
